This hike starts at the Caldeira viewpoint, on the crater of a dormant volcano about 2 km in diameter and 400 m deep, where the inner slopes are covered by exuberant laurisilva forest. It then crosses a levada, a channel several kilometres long, built to utilize the surface water run-off from the slopes of the Caldeira. The final part includes several volcanic cones, which correspond to the most recent volcanic peninsula in Europe, ending in the lunar landscape of Capelinhos, caused by the eruption of the Capelinhos volcano in 1957.