Dom Manuel Lagos

Sagres was once considered the end of the world and is the most western point on the European mainland. We arrived at night to beautiful clear skies and parked our camper at the Orbitur.

The next morning we woke up disappointed. Although it was still mild outside the clouds and the fog had rolled in overnight and visibility was poor to s...

16 Nov - "Back to Nature"
2 nights of urban living in Lagos and we decided it was time to head for the hills, which meant relocating to Luz on a rather more rural campsite in terms of its locale. Luz is a beautiful beach town with a beach circa one mile in length, a good deal of which has a backdrop of multi coloured rock face. Its a lot smal...

14 Nov
we awoke early and decided to go for a stroll along the river bank to the point where it met the ocean (NOTE AT TIME OF WRITING, we have an entry for Odeceixe to insert). En route we had a quick wash using water that was effectively run off from the hillside. Proceeding on at the beach, we were greeted by two sea otters, happily frolic...

Another typical Porto Covo morning: bright, blue and upon inspection, very large swell; too large for us. Decision time - do we stay or move on? It was easy and unanimous, time to break camp and hit the road once again heading south. We looked at a couple of likely surf / camp destinations, until opting for Odeceixe, a town which straddles both ...

Over the last couple days I've watched my shaky plan fall around me. I don't really know where to go next, and surprise bills are depleting my meager funds. Thankfully I'm stranded in Southern Portugal, its cheap and beautiful, indeed there are less desirable places to be stranded.

I decide to join a group of young kiwis heading to Lagos;...

Day 5: Lagos

Once all the stories from the night before have been told you have the day to explore Lagos at your own pace. For those of you who can’t bear to miss out on all that Lagos has to offer, choose from exploring the Algarve grottos by sea-kayak, try your hand at rockclimbing, mountainbiking or spend your afternoon surfing t...

Mood: soothed I apologise in advance but I get the feeling this will be a pretty long entry - even though I have done a lot of sweet nothing. But please read on. Lagos is a coastal fishing/summer resort town down in the south west of Portugal, and its here that I have chosen to take a few days out to unwind, to enjoy the beach and the sunshine. ...

After blasting our way across the top of Spain, we made our way into Portugal. Our first stop was Porto, famous for making port wine. Unfortunately it rained the entire two days we were there which sucked most of our motivation to do anything. We sat with our vans parked in a circle in the camping ground and yelled abuse at each other through th...

Lagos was our place to relax and settle in one spot for a while. It has a population of about 25,000. There is something for everyone here, you'll find backpackers, surfers and families. You can't get many places with more sunshine than here. The temperature stays very comfortable throughout the winter. The day we left at the end of October it w...

The next morning we woke up to a house filled with water. Evidently, it poured the night before, and nobody heard it. After much deliberation, we decided to head to Lagos, just a short drive away. Lagos is THE place to be if you are a young backpacker ready to get your party on. It's a really nice town that figured out long ago that tourists mea...