Hello everybody :)
The itinerary that i will share in the next articles has as its central point the Carlão location that i present today and whose existence i was completely unaware of.
I am perfectly aware that like this one, there are many more that i don't know about, despite being located in one of the best-known areas of this small piece of land planted by the sea.
It's when we decide to escape the city routine and venture along dirt trails that we end up discovering these forgotten corners waiting to be explored.
First conclusion, and i believe it is a generality among villages in every corner of the world, leave your own land as a secondary place when it comes time to set out on an adventure.
I say this because in the place i'm sharing today, we were the only nationals, and accompanying us were 2 Spaniards, a couple where he was English and she was Israeli and another French couple, with a Turkish couple yet to arrive and Greeks.
We were right next door and accompanying a group of people who traveled several kilometers to meet there and enjoy the view.
It took kilometers of dirt road through several parishes to get there, with a fantastic view always accompanying it.
When we arrived, the host was quick to say that the access points were complicated for a simple city car and that for that same reason he always warned visitors with this information and that if necessary he would have even arranged a meeting point and that he would pick us up at a Jeep.
But of course it wasn't necessary, because the car needed a more rigorous test drive.
Another note that the host made with special attention was to alert you to the time and exact place where the sun would appear the next day from behind the mountains on the horizon, and that it would be a spectacle not to be missed.
Regarding this note, the images speak for themselves 😉
Although at first glance it seems like just mountains everywhere, there are isolated settlements scattered all over the place, full of archaeolithic remains from the Neolithic and Bronze Age, as evidenced by some of the museums in the area and where it is possible to view some of the remains that they have been collected there over the years and as they are discovered.
There are others, such as the cave paintings of Pala Pinta that were discovered in 1921 by a local archaeologist and that must remain in the place where they were found 😝
In a quick search we found that it is a cave shelter with a granite screen 12 meters long and almost 3 meters high on which dotted motifs were painted, in a radiated form and figures interpreted as anthropomorphic stylizations and dating back to the third millennium before Christ.
We still tried to visit the place where they are located and to do so we went down the mountain along serpentine roads until we were close to the river, but the GPS simply stopped working and started making us walk aimlessly in the middle of nowhere, and we ended up forgetting that idea and continued our journey when we realized that we were very close to a village that we could see from the balcony of the house at the top of the hill, but that visit will be for a future article 😊
Very close by in Cunha montain, we also had the opportunity to climb the Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres Viewpoint, which underwent a recent renovation in 2022 with the aim of promoting and enhancing the natural and scenic heritage of the area.
As it was the first time we visited, i have no idea what it would have been like before, so we had the opportunity to climb up using a more accessible route.
At the top, right next to the Chapel, characteristic of any small mountain peak, we found some really cool binoculars that allowed us to observe far into the horizon and enjoy the amazing view.
That´s all for today, hope you like the views as much as i do :)
Camera - Samsung SM-A528B
Camera - Canon EOS 600D
Lens - EFS 18-55mm
Location - Portugal
Thank you again for watching :)
Always remember:
Value your time, because every fraction counts, and the price of anything is the amount of life you trade for it.
May the memories of the travels be eternalized in the photographs, and may the photographs transport us back to the travels ;)
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