This is one of my favorite photos I took on Faial – the moonscape of Capelinhos.

The Azores Islands are volcanic and Capelinhos, on Faial’s western end, is still covered in ash with very little vegetation (the eruption took place in 1957/1958).

This is also the site of the underground Capelinhos Interpretation Centre.

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