Tripix Review

Did the Pico mountain day climb with Tripix (Rai was our guide). The email Comms were always friendly and Rai was a great guide - she told us bits about the volcano and flora/fauna, as well of course of providing plenty of encouragement and helping us pick the best routes. I should mention that my climb was bought forward by a day fairly last minute: this was due to the mountain weather forecasts and so that I see as a positive - i.e. they have guests' safety and experience in mind - rather than anything negative. N.b. transfers to/from Madalena are included in the price (e.g. if you don't have a car), but you do need to specifically request this in advance. Thank you Rai for an excellent - if somewhat tiring - day.

Amazing experience. We have done the overnight climb of the Pico together with Matteo. Very good guidance. Good equipment, poles, tent and warm sleeping bag. Some training with a heavy backpack up and especially back down is necessary, not to be underestimated. As a reward a great view, sunset and rise. Life time experience! 5 stars.

We booked a day tour with Rai of the Secret Lagoons and Caves on Pico. We didn't really know what to expect, but we had such a fantastic time. It was our only day on Pico, and Rai helped us make the most of it!

Tripix were flexible to meet our requirements, so we were lucky enough to be able to tag a trip to the vineyards onto the end of the day and ended up with a much needed wine-tasting after exploring a hidden, mystery cave.

We had assumed, wrongly it turns out, that we would go to a tourist attraction with a guide who would show us the first few hundred meters of a large cave, and that would be that. Instead, we donned a rather fetching orange suit and entered a cave which few have entered. It's location is not well-known and Tripix are keen to keep it that way!

Rai was an excellent, enthusiastic and knowledgable guide. We had a fantastic lunch in Sao Roque after visiting the Lagoons (which were beautiful) and getting to know Pico. We ended the day at the vineyards and headed to a local producer who happened to be having a tasting on that day - such lovely wine! We ended up taking a few bottles home with us...

If you want to see Pico and enjoy an adventure, we could not recommend a better way to do it than with Rai and Tripix!

I definitely recommend it.

Thank you Tripix Azores

I'm using this agency! I made 4 tours with them, all really great. Matteo and Manuel are great mountain guide! Raisa is a super friendly and welcoming person. She made everything to make every day a unique experience and is very passionate about her job! You can book there without hesitation! I'll come back one day for sure!

Used to travel and book services, I really recommend this agency. I made 4 great rounds via tripix. Matteo and Manuel are very good mountain guides! Raisa is someone very warm and welcoming! She has done everything to make everyone's day a unique experience and is really passionate about her work and the island! You can book there with your eyes closed !!

The nighttime Pico climb is a must! Matteo was a great guide and gave us the ropes whilst climbing to the top of the mountain to see the sunset. The climb was awesome and the sunset wasn t too bad either!!! With Matteo s guide we conquered More

Fantastic experience !!!! Rai and Matteo, the guides who accompanied us to the top of the mountain are two helpful, kind and professional guys. It was easy to book from their website and everything was above our expectations. Rai and Matteo transmit their love for the mountain throughout the journey thus making this experience even more wonderful. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!!

Beautiful beach, warm water, inviting for a swim anytime.

Unfortunately, our experience with Tripix fell short of our expectations. We specifically decided to arrange for a guide because we wanted to do an overnight climb. Having never done such a climb and unsure of the conditions on Pico, a guide seemed like a good idea. We scheduled a date and Tripix included a backup date.

We came to Pico island for 4 nights to give ourselves a few days in case weather conditions weren't great. Sure enough, Tripix cancelled our original hike several days in advance due to a forecast of unstable weather, and we were offered a day climb instead. As forecasts changed, this date was suddenly moved earlier, and then cancelled again. In either case, an overnight climb was never offered. It seems that during the summer, with the influx of tourists, there are many more people doing the day climb and in situations of cancellations, whether due to considerations of profit or availability of guides, overnight climbs simply fall to the side. We were extremely disappointed, as we relied on Tripix to have this experience, especially in case of unfavourable weather conditions (we had spent a good amount of time and money preparing for the possibility of bad weather!) We did not complete the climb with them.

On the positive, Tripix refunded our deposit promptly and without any hassle when we realized they wouldn t be able to provide what we had signed up for. Pico looked beautiful and clear on our backup date, but unfortunately we were not there. We did however climb Pico during the day on our own without any trouble--no guide was necessary in good conditions!

I have little doubt that Tripix can provide an excellent experience on Pico. But you have to be prepared that they may not be willing to climb in potentially imperfect conditions and may not have a ton of flexibility in rescheduling during peak season. We weren t!

Excellent! I organized with them the climb to the Pico volcano, the highest peak in Portugal. What can I say, really perfect. Excellent guide, very beautiful landscape and the summit brought home, despite a bad weather and a not just cold! Highly recommended, without a doubt!

Fantastic company! Friendly staff and great experience! We did the general island tour and the wine tour and had a great time! The lava tubes are a sight to see and the views are magnificent. The staff make great recommendations for things to do after your tour, but the places they take you are truly one of a kind! Also the food was fantastic. We hope to come back but definitely a really good company to book your adventures!

A lovely day with Raisa, doing the secret Lagoons and Lava Caves tour in a Jeep. What a beautiful, safe and impressive trip and a great time we had. Thank you so very much.

Family business very well organized and complete. We give a 10 for their enthusiasm and motivation with the excursions they offer, sharing with tourists in a very close, pleasant, friendly, fun and polite way.

My partner and I hired the climb to the montanha do pico and made us a guide Raisa. A very nice and attentive girl with everyone in the group, made the excursion very fun, always encouraged us and was aware of who had difficulties or who needed anything. Raisa took many photos, both for her instagram and website, as well as for each couple in the group.

We recommend 100% to hire excursions with Raisa and Mateo, your partner and partner. They are very dedicated so that the experience of each tourist is the most complete and fun.

Great mountain guides and natural park guides. Follow up as if you were family.

Excellent organization and monitoring of the climb to Pico. In addition to the organization of the logistics of stay on the island of Pico. Thank you very much Tripix!

We had a wonderful experience hiking to the top of Pico Mountain with Tripix Azores. Raisa was our group guide, and she made our trip fun, safe, and very enjoyable. She knew a great deal about the history and nature of the the island and volcanoes, which made the climb even more enjoyable. I highly recommend Tripix and Raisa for your tour needs on Pico Island, Azores.

The overnight climb was simply amazing. Strongly recommended to have it with Tripix. Matteo is a great guide that does his best to make the expedition a memorable experience for everyone in the group. Special Kudos to Tripix also for the camping gear: the tent and the sleeping bag they provide are top quality North Face products, in perfect conditions.

We really enjoyed day-climb to Pico Mountain with our guide Matteo, who told us many information about Azores, life and nature here. We felt like his family guests here on Pico island.
Best. Tourist. Experience. Ever.

We chose to climb Pico during the night in order to watch the sunrise at the top. The guide (Matteo) was great. I had climbed Pico before and a good guide really makes the difference.
We took 4h40 to go up and 4h20 to go down. The pace was adapted to the slowest ones. In my opinion, was a bit to slow, specially from Cratera to Piquinho, but that kinda various from group to group.
At the top we rested for a while and waited until everyone went down, so we were there alone in silence enjoying the view. Just before going down, Matteo gave us a bit of aguardente do Pico (local brandy) as an extra strength to go down.
Highly recommend Tripix and Matteo!

Very accessible team with a real interest in preserving the local fauna. It is these kinds of companies that we must support and help grow. The climb to the peak was fantastic

On a beautiful sunny day there is a tour too expensive for what is offered. Time spent indoors when the sun was out, and the discovery of nature when the fog approached ... "Taste wine" wrote the poster, in reality a simple visit to a liquor store. Very disappointed in the experience / cost ratio.

Unforgettable, wonderful experience climbing Montanha do Pico with Raisa and Matteo in Sep 2018. Enthusiasm, evident passion of the guides, superb motivational skills, sharing loads of useful mountaineering tips, with great emphasis on and respect for the mountain and preservation of the vegetation. I've been recommending Tripix to everyone around even since the climb. Obrigada Raisa e Matteo, obrigada Montanha!

Climbing Pico is a must but not with anybody! Matteo was a super cool guide, careful with everybody in the group, giving tips and providing informations while climbing.
To have the best experience climbing Pico and to protect the environment of this beautiful mountain, call Tripix!
Thanks again for this nice trip!

Company super concerned with the welfare of its customers, showing what nature has most beautiful and pure. The route is not easy but it is compensated with the security that the professionals transmit and with the compensation of a unique scenario, incredible that everyone must one day experience the beautiful art of living moments with nature, safely and in great company. Thanks Tripix !!! Best company on Pico Island !!

We did the night climb to the summit of Pico with the professional and kind mountain guide Matteo. Beautiful sunset is 100% worth the climb! We really recommend to contact Tropic when you want the best guidance to the top of the Azores!

We are very glad that we decided to hike with a guide and even more glad that we chose Tripix for our Pico climb. Raisa was our guide, she was phenomenal, very professional and motivational. Raisa knows every rock and best paths on Pico.
Obrigada montanha :) Obrigada Raisa :)

The peak is simply charming. The guides are very good and lead the adventure with myito professionalism. I will come back for more experience. Thanks :)

I did the Pico Mountain Day Climb led by Matteo in June 2019. The hike was very enjoyable and the 2 guides were very professional and supportive.
The hike itself was beautiful and I would highly recommend it to anyone visiting Pico. If you're reading this, wondering whether to A)hike Pico B)go with Tripix, I recommend yes for both!

Best choice for climbing mount Pico.

Me and my girlfriend were very happy to have Raisa from Tripix as our guide for the hike on mount / volcano Pico especially as that was our first climbing experience.

We went there in November, offseason and were lucky to be the only ones with Raisa on our journey. Raisa was very positive and motivated us throughout the walk up and down the Pico making it a very interesting and enjoyable experience.

It was very easy to communicate with her and her passion for the trail and preservation of Pico as a nature s treasure and the demonstrated knowledge of the islands and volcanos, their history was very impressive.

She even suggested us a good restaurant for the evening and offered any help on our upcoming days in Azores if we would need it.

We would like to have had more time on island to have more tours with Tripix (e.g. wine tasting tour).

Definetely recommend bookking Tripix - Raisa and Matteo as your guide for experiences on Pico island and other Azores islands!!!

I climbed the peak mountain with them, after the recommendation of some friends who had done the same. They are impeccable. It is worth it, they are differentiated and have a lot of experience in high mountains. It's tough, but it's worth it!

I had an amazing climb up Pico with Tripix. Our guide Raisa was super knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and attentive to the needs of our group. Our group was comprised of biologists and Raisa took extra time to teach us about the plants and birds of the mountain. It was a perfect day at the top of the Atlantic.

It has been a great experience! First day I went for Pico Island tour which I strongly recommend and we visited at first local wineyards and later many interesting and breathtaking spots through the island, our guide was very prepared and I Iearned a lot of things about the geology of this place. I was very satisfied. Next day I booked another tour to the near island of Faial (i took the ferry which is next to Tripix and it takes about 20 minutes and when I arrived there I had a local guide waiting for me and other people to pick us up), we visited local botanical gardens which holds a large variety of both endemic and exotic flora and then we went to Caldeira do Faial and Capelinhos, during the travel we stopped by at some beautiful spots. The guide was very good at giving us information about biological and geological facts of the island. The last day i decided to book another tour of pico island to visit the remaining places i had not seen (mainly the mountain side) and it has been a good choice: i had the chance to walk in a beatuiful, almost onyric, forest and see a lot of nice spots, for instance the long straight road and some mountain lakes and the astonishing underground cave Gruta das Torres. My only regret has been not choosing Pico Mountain tour (i had only three days) because some people I met during the excursion told were very satisfied with it but.. I will definitely come back !! Also, I had great company and I enjoyed all the lunches with good food and good wine. i highly recommend them, they made really enjoy my vacation.

Fantastic rise to the summit of Pico Island. With Tripix and Matteo's professionalism, the climb became easy, even in the most difficult areas. I went with my daughter and we were the 3 alone in Piquinho, enjoying a fantastic view that covered the 5 islands. On the way down we stopped several times to enjoy the views. Thank you very much Matteo, a very experienced and motivating guide, who became a friend. Thank you Mountain !!!!!!!!!!

We have just spent a very nice day with Raisa. She motivated us and supervised us with a smile, dynamism and kindness. The price of the excursion is well deserved (the entrance to the park, which is 20 euros is included in the price). Going up without a guide would have been much longer and much less motivating. We recommend +++

We went up to the peak today with the guide Matteo, it was an incredible experience. Always accompanied by an experienced, friendly and ready to help guide. Motivation was not lacking.
Even in this pandemic era, we feel that all security measures have been put in place. We highly recommend it, certainly a rewarding experience! :)

The closest thing to the Garden of Eden, the Azores are a Portuguese archipelago in the mid-atlantic that are perfect if you want to get away from it all and explore in the sun.



The largest and most populated island has a lot to offer, including city walks, nightlife and breathtaking views of Caldeira das Sete Cidades (above) and lagoa do fogo.

If you have more than a week to spend here, hop over to the other islands for more hikes and activities like canyoning and whale watching.

Best time to visit: May, June, September (peak season July & August)

My husband and I were blown away by the awesome customer service of Tripix, including our super rad tour guide and Tripix owner, Raisa, intern David, and staff member Joana. We first did a Pico Day Tour with Raisa, who is super fun and hospitable. She made us feel like family and facilitated a very nice experience, and the trip mates who we did not know prior to the tour, clearly also felt very welcomed and we all had such a great day together. Raisa takes you to the some very breathtaking sites around Pico, and is clearly extremely passionate about what she does and the island of Pico. She is very knowledgeable and we learned a lot, all in an awesome environment. She seemed to tailor the trip to the group and the weather, and is very flexible depending on what the group wants. At the end of the tour we forgot the cheese that we bought in the van. I Instagrammed Raisa who got back to me immediately, saying that she saw we had left it and was heading to our accommodation at that moment. Sure enough she brought us our cheese! She had also offered to bring anything including food or medicine to a couple that at the beginning of the tour (upon pick-up) could not join the tour due to being ill. She is very genuine and very much cares about her customers and wants to ensure the best experience for your time in Pico. We also met another guide along the way that seemed very nice and genuine as well. After hours my husband and I contacted them to see if we can get a two hour trip to Gruta das Torres the next day, and Joana and Raisa got right on it setting up the tour and our transport with David through Tripix to the caves. She allowed us to pay for both tours on the second day after they were both completed without fuss or hesitation. We already can t wait to come back to Pico to take more tours with Tripix, and could not more highly recommend this awesome (and environmentally conscious) company! Thanks Raisa!!!

We made the most of a rainy day, and had a brilliant time exploring the lava tunnels and secret lakes with the crazy-cool, inimitable Lusia and her various feathered, uddered and sparkly microbial friends.

It was an incredible experience! Our guide, Matteo, was very attentive, friendly, motivating and calm, which greatly facilitated our climb. The climb is hard, but it is worth all the effort, especially when the weather collaborates and the mountain is on us! :)

We had an amazing climb with Raisa! We highly recommend her and Mateo (we got to meet him on his way down from the night time climb). Tripix was really helpful and getting all the information that we needed. And as we were staying in Faial and taking the early morning ferry, they packed us a delicious meal with water included, We will be back and will take their wine tour of Pico. We highly recommend these folks.

Amazing guide who really love the place and want you to have the best experiences

It s true, you don t necessarily need a guide to climb Mount Pico. But here are three reasons you should book a tour with Raisa and Matteo from Tripix: Firstly, you don t have to wait for hours until you are allowed to climb up (number of people is restricted). Secondly, they have your back. If something goes south, they will be there. Thirdly, they are fun people and passionate about what they do. We would invest the money again. Thanks for the trip!

I couldn't have chosen a better company for this adventure. Very professional. The guide was spectacular throughout the climb to Pico mountain. I loved it!

We did the 95 pp overnight climb with them. Our guide was Matteo. Great weather helped. The climb up took 5 hours and the views was astounding. Totally worth the price we paid. First class equipment (north face tents) and the guide took a ton of pics along the way. Highly recommend this agency.

We did the daily climb to Pico with both Raisa and Matteo. The weather was not great at the beginning and I was having a hard time climbing up the mountain with lots of wind and fog. Matteo was amazing, he stayed with me all the way, helping me with the best trails and with great tips. We managed to get to the top and the feeling is absolutely amazing! All the hard time climbing up was definitely worth it and the weather was great on top! On the way down Matteo was with a smaller part of the group doing the walk at a slower pace and was great and very patient.
I would definitely recommend Tripix to everyone who wants to climb up to the Pico mountain. They are very professional and you can truly see that it is a family business and that both of them are really passionate and knowledgeable about it! We really loved it!

An amazing day, with the very friendly and motivational guidance of Raisa. The great thing about climbing Pico, besides the truly unique view from the top, is that it can be done by anyone in good condition. You don t need to be a trained athlete. Good shoes, lots of water and food, good motivation are enough to get you there. And for sure, no fear of height, because it s a steep climb and the path is very rough. In our group we had a couple of rather unsure/slower persons, we just adapted the pace of the group accordingly and everyone made it to the top. There was a second, faster group in parallel for those who preferred a higher pace.

The best tour you can get!!
Nice job Tripix

Excellent guided tour around the island with a tasty full course lunch. Our guide very obviously loved the Azores whole heartedly and her enthusiasm made the trip a blast.

The guide showed up an hour and a half after the scheduled time. Considering that we woke up at 4 in the morning, I don't feel like giving it a higher score

Amazing experience climbing Mt. Pico. Even though the weather was not amazing, they made the experience very engaging and made sure we had a safe ascent to to the top. I would recommend this company for any activity you want to do on Pico!

Spectacular experience. We had the best guide that could come in handy. Thank you Tripix!

The best team ever !! Professionalism and good vibe at every second, everything a person needs when traveling through the Azores!

Had a great trip today! The guide was friendly, kind and knew her plant species well. She educated me a lot about the volcanoes and everything else to know about Pico. The planning of the tour was flexible, meaning that we went where the weather was good. After lunch, she even took me to one of the wine factories for some wine tasting, because it was just around the corner & the weather wasn't that great yet. By the end of the day I got what I came for: 1. visiting lava caves (especially the one where she guided us was astonishing), 2. visiting lagoons and a bonus of the wine tour/tasting. I would recommend this tour to others!

My boyfriend and I relied on tripix to climb the Pico. Among the many activities that we offer, we have chosen to do the overnight climb which consists of climbing the Pico over night in a tent and returning the next day after seeing the sunrise. Despite the effort, dictated both by the weight of the backpacks and by the altitude difference and the fact that the route is a bit bumpy, we really enjoyed the experience! Matteo (our guide) was VERY GOOD. Even I, who usually don't go to the mountains and have no experience, thanks to him I managed to get to the top and enjoy the splendid view that only the top of the pico can offer. Sleeping on the crater was spectacular! I recommend to everyone!