@adventana_: Snow White in a Portuguese forest 🌳🍎🌿 Fanal is an ancient subtropical laurel forest that appeared around 20 million years ago 😍 Forests like this once covered much of Southern Europe but almost completely disappeared due to climate change. Madeira is home to one of the largest surviving remnants of this ancient natural world, which is why the forest feels like a mystical fairy tale 👸 In 1999, Madeira’s Laurisilva — the name for its laurel forest 🌳 — was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Thanks to the fog, wind and unusually twisted branches, every tree in Fanal looks like a different fairy-tale character 😍 Tourists have even given them unofficial nicknames: the Witch Tree, the Happiness Tree, the Spider Tree and the Frog Tree.