What it’s like to go on a Jurassic Park-style adventure in the volcanic Azores

I’m peering into what can only be described as a forest of giant ferns and expecting at any moment to see something ancient rustling within.

A velociraptor on the hunt for a scuttling mammal, perhaps, or worse, a T-Rex looming above me.

I’m in the Caldeira Velha (it means hot springs), a designated ‘natural monument’ on the slopes of Fogo, a…