Includes: 5 nights B&B | 4 self-guided walks | luggage transfer | local support.

TOTAL DISTANCE: 76Km/47Miles

TOTAL CLIMB: 896m

TOTAL DESCENT: 908m

This is a Magical coastal program using marked trails along the fishermen´s paths of Rota Vicentina in the Alentejo SW Atlantic Coast Region. The landscape is undulating and presents a great diversity, every day will offer a new challenge. Locals are humble and friendly, gastronomy is outstanding, especially the fish, shellfish and the black pork. This experience offers tranquility and a lot of distance walking by yourself, allowing to explore the feeling of discovery among nature. This fishermen´s trail is unique in Europe and a great achievement to get to your best memories. The average distance per day is 20Km/12,5Miles, which makes it a 5-6h gentle walk. If you don´t like sand or dirt tracks, this is not your kind of program.

Highlights

 Stunning Coastal landscapes with cliffs, rivers, valleys and the great Atlantic

 Small towns and villages, the biggest one has close to 5000 people.

 Great local gastronomy from Alentejo & Algarve Regions

 Walks along the sandy paths of Rota Vicentina

 Desert beaches along every day walk (except July and August)
 

#Coastal landscapes #Fishermen´s paths #Sandy trails #Rota Vicentina #Cliffs #Beaches #Fish #small towns #heritage #small towns #lifestyle #Porto côvo #Vila Nova de Milfontes # Longueira #Zambujeira do Mar #Odeceixe

#5 - ROTA VICENTINA from A to Z - Vicentina Route - 12 walks (combined option)

Includes: 13 nights B&B | 12 self-guided walks | luggage transfer | local support.

TOTAL DISTANCE: 239Km/148Miles

TOTAL CLIMB: 3536m

TOTAL DESCENT: 3714m

This program combines programs #3 and #4, making it an “end-to-end” walk along Rota Vicentina, combining the best of Historical Way and Fishermen’s Trail, consisting in 12 day-walks, averaging 20km/12.5mi per day, totalizing 239km/148mi.

This is probably one of the best ways to explore the finest of Portugal’s pristine SW coast, getting to know a little of its splendour, from the authentic feeling of the rural villages inland, to the picturesque fishing towns by the coast, and from Alentejo to western Algarve, two of the most beautiful regions in Portugal, reaching the Southwestern corner of Europe just before “América”.

Get the opportunity to try the delicacies of this area, starting with the black pork, followed by the freshly caught fish and seafood, and finishing with Algarve’s delicious sweet potato, carob and almond deserts. 

Highlights:

 End-to-end walk of Rota Vicentina;

 Explores two different regions, Alentejo and Algarve;

 Delicious typical food with fresh ingredients;

 The very end of the GR11 -9 (Rota Vicentina) that starts in St. Petersburg (Russia)

 SW Corner of Europe and Saint Vincents Cape

#Long walk #average 20km/day #combined trails #Countryside & Coastal landscapes #Fishermen´s paths # Historical Way #Sandy trails #Rota Vicentina #Cliffs #Beaches #local gastronomy #small towns #heritage #small towns #lifestyle 

#Santiago do Cacém # Vale Seco # Cercal do Alentejo #Porto côvo #Vila Nova de Milfontes # Longueira #Zambujeira do Mar #Odeceixe #Aljezur #Arrifana Beach #Carrapateira #Vila do Bispo #Sagres (St. Vincents Cape).