Naked man at Cascata dos Anjos sparks outrage

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The photograph of a naked man at Cascata dos Anjos, in Ponta do Sol, is generating outrage on the part of some Internet users.

The man, apparently a foreigner, was photographed today bathing in the waterfall without clothes, in an area that is closed to traffic due to falling rocks.

From Diário Notícias

Also across social media this week has been many photos of tourists camping in places and lighting fires o the ground, leaving mess hanging there washing between trees, this being trees in Fanal a protected area.

Also a woman in a sexual act in public on Praia Formosa.

And also a tent set up and  photographed in the airport.

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27 Responses

  1. This is really sad. There is such a thing as the wrong type of tourist and poor old Madeira now appears to be on the receiving end of this. All the regular people who respected nature and used to visit for its beauty and tranquility will simply keep away. I feel Madeira is prostituting itself in the name of tourist numbers.

    1. Unfortunately, I think you are correct. Very sad. Madeira constantly, overbearingly, courts tourists and just like Hawaii, in the US, it is starting to pay a hefty price. Increased pollution, crime, environmental degradation, overbuilding, and a decrease in what makes the island such a great place to visit in the first place.

  2. WTF? I mean this is disgusting and despicable that these foreigners acting this way in my island and at my village, what do they think that place is Ibiza where all the English lower class go to cause Britain embarrassment?
    They Should be fined, it’s not ok for me as a foreigner in uk to behave badly and shameful it’s certainly not ok for them to go do that. Filthy pigs.

    1. It seems from your comment you believe this to be an Englishman. I can’t see any distinguishing features to prove this. I don’t like this trend and deplore the occasion, I also don’t like your sweeping observation of the English.

    2. As has been pointed out there is nothing to say this person is English, my experience is that he’s more likely to be from a Scandanavian country. I was once in the sauna at a hotel on the island and a very elderly woman walked in completely naked and although I consider myself broad minded I was very uncomfortable and left immediately, at the time I was in my late 50s, I feel its in the Scandinavian culture to shed there clothes and thier inhibitions

  3. This is what you get (unfortunately) if you make authenticity secondary to money. You attract the public you do not want . The ‘I-love-Amsterdam’ campaign was highly successful in attracting tourists, and now they don’t how to get rid of it/them

  4. Madeirans only have themselves to blame they have destroyed their own island with mass tourism it was once the best island in the region a great shame.

      1. George, nothing wrong with the old Madeira pre pandemic? The rest of it is just pure greed.

        1. Jen, the figures now are only slightly better than the 2019 figures although they ae growing strongly. It’s not the numbers. This guy is just an idiot. My point is Madeira has really only one thing going for it, Tourism. I remember Madeira before mass tourism, yes it was quaint and quiet. It was also skint. You know when you walk the old town and see the upper stories of restaurants derelict, before mass tourism the whole building was derelict. Talk to a 60/70 year old and ask them if they would like to go back to the good old days.

      2. GeorgeNabbs
        The new campaign of the government is to everyone become slim and trim and without any money . Been a big effort to achieve this target indeed . Maybe the UK can follow Portugal with this new trend . ??

  7. Madeira focused on changing its image from an older tourist destination to maximize the € income. I guess it’s a case of being careful of what you wish for.

    1. G
      With this picture I don’t think that been achieve at all . And I guess what everyone doesn’t want is old men and women or even young become a trend hiking naked in the levadas and mountains that will be interesting . Maybe this is the new future this way the levadas and the mountains will have less tourists . ??

  9. This men is trying to save in is water bill since the water is to expensive .??

  10. Antonio Lamas
    They way the things are going is better you join a monastery and become a monk . Free of free from temptation and sin . And that will be indeed sad . ????

  12. There is an interesting article in todays Independent about the idiot things tourists do on holiday!
    It’s not just British people but people from all over the world disgracing themselves in another country so Madeira is not alone or special !
    Becoming Ibiza it will never do!
    Having lewd tourists and silly antics it will always have even by Madeiran/ Portuguese nationals!
    the more tourists the more idiot instances will occur.
    While we can laugh at some we shall all be embarrassed by others so it’s only when life is threatened and or injuries occur shall folk be more concerned.

  13. Theres a number plate on the car shouldn’t be a problem to identify ownership, interesting ID parade tho ?

  14. If there is adult male public nudity, gotta go with German as the default candidate.

    Seriously not a big deal, this isn’t a common thing. The whingeing in these comments about not much is painful.

    Madeira remains safe, is actually getting cleaner (see the power grid fossil fuel % dropping), wealthier, more diverse, more dining and shopping options etc. the airport does feel closer to capacity to me in the past 6 months, going to 40% above 2019 levels will do that.

  15. From what looks like the “wings” on his back, I think it could be a celestial visitor. Gabriel perhaps.

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