Along the coast, a famous long distance hike, the Trilho dos Pescadores or Fishermen’s Trail starts south of Sines and leads 226 km along the coast, past Cabo de São Vicente until Lagos. We did the first few kilometres until Porto Covo, and later on came many times past the trail and the many hikers. After our […]
South of Sétubal, we had found a short hike called Percurso do Salgueiral da Galiza, which leads through a natural reserve. Short after we started the hike, we noticed a deer between the trees. We didn’t move or speak, to not scare it. Instead of moving away, it came slowly closer, until it walked past
After our visit to Guarda, we were looking for a spot for the night, which we found next to the Caldeirão dam. By chance, we noticed that a hike starts here. We found some information in Portuguese, but didn’t understand much, only that the route is 12 km long, there are 600 metres height difference,
In the Las Batuecas – Sierra de Francia Nature Park, we had spent the night next to the river, where we wanted to hike the next day. (45.454102, -6.13465) From that parking, a route leads you up the Batuecas to the secluded Monastery Desierto de San José of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns and further upstream
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What is called Meandro el Melero are the horseshoe bends in the river Alagón, which makes its way through the mountains in the Las Batuecas – Sierra de Francia Natural Park. We saw photos of this landscape and decided to hike there. On Wikiloc we found a route we liked and off we went. (Trail
We had read about the Igudar (pl. for Agadir), fortified communal granaries found in the Maghreb. At the village of Amtoudi, there are 2 Igudar, which had been restored and are open for visitors. In that valley, there were once 7 of them, but the others are already past repair. In addition to harvested grains, the communities inhabiting
We started our hike south of Tafraoute, where a track leads in the direction of the Napoleon’s Hat, a rock formation at the village of Agard-Oudad. After the abandoned fields of the village, we turned right to walk through the fascinating granite landscape, formed by erosions. We felt like being back in Namibia. Sadly we
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After driving off-road the last days, it was time for a hike. As there is no more spectacular hike than the Mont-Rebei, and we were very close to this gorge, we went there. Our hike started south of Puente de Montañana, at the big parking which was closed, and had a 2,3 m restriction anyway.
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End of June 2024 we had returned from Africa and the Middle East. The summer in Austria was great, and we had enough time to meet with friends and family, attend a wedding, celebrated a birthday and much more. A lot of time went into servicing our “Cochecito”, which needed a bit of attention after
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We know that Cyprus is not really on the way home, more like a little detour, but we decided to spend some time here, having a summer holiday, before we would return to Austria. Nearly 3 years ago, we were already at the harbour of Tasucu, with a ticket for the ferry in hand, but
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