Hello adventurous friends, I am passing by here to bring you a new experience and thus complete my "Road to the Atlantic" trail, which includes a walk along the entire Atlantic coast of Portugal, or at least the southern edge. To finish this great odyssey, I will travel to the center of Almada, very close to the beach area, to do the "Trafaria" trail, approximately 8 km long and lasting 5 hours. The weather was unforgiving but it could not make me back down and I will achieve my goal. Enjoy this experience.⛰️🌎
Central square⛲🚩
Hola amigos aventureros paso por aqui para traerles una nueva experiencia y completar asi mi sendero "camino al atlantico" que contempla una caminata por toda la costa atlantica de Portugal o al menos del margen sur, para terminar esta gran odisea viaje al centro de Almada muy cerca de la zona de las playas para hacer el sendero "Trafaria" con una extension aproximada de 8km y una duracion de 5 horas, el clima fue implacable pero no logro hacerme retroceder para cumplir mi objetivo disfruta de esta experiencia. ⛲🚙
How interesting is the trail?📸⛰️ /Que tan interesante es el sendero?🌎🚩
Well, where to start? Without a doubt, the trail brings us an endless number of challenges and obstacles that we will gradually overcome as we advance towards our goal. Starting in the cities of Corroios and passing through Almada make the experience a mix of concrete and nature. I am not a fan of hiking in the middle of summer because the heat does not help, and well, today I had a body temperature of almost forty degrees. I ran out of water in the protected area of the desert, which made me speed up my walk to get to Trafaria to buy water.🌎🚩
Bueno por donde empezar... Sin duda el sendero trae a nosotros un sin fin de retos y obstaculos que poco a poco vamos a ir superando a medida que vamos avanzando en nuestro objetivo, comenzar en las ciudades de Corroios y pasar por almada hacen de la experiencia una mezcla de concreto con naturaleza, no son fan de hacer senderos en pleno verano porque el calor no colabora y bueno hoy tenia una sensacion corporal de casi cuarenta grados, se me acabo el agua en la parte del area protegida del desierto lo que hizo que acelerara mi caminata para llegar a Trafaria a comprar agua.⛲🚙
Little by little we advance a few kilometers until we leave the main road and leave behind "the concrete jungle" and we begin to see the sea and a forest on the horizon, that is a good sign because we are arriving at the protected area called: (caparica coast), there the road is wilder, it is a little warmer and we begin to walk in the sand come prepared with the appropriate equipment, yes or yes with hiking boots and walking sticks are optional.⛰️😁🚙
Poco a poco vamos avanzando unos kilometros hasta salir de la carretera principal y dejar atras "la selva de concreto" y comenzamos a ver al horizonte el mar y un bosque, eso es buena senal porque estamos llegando a la zona protegida llamada: (costa de caparica), alli el camino es mas salvaje, hace un poco mas de calor y comenzamos a caminar en la arena vente preparado con el equipo adecuado si o si con botas de excursion y bastones son opcional.🚩👨🏻🦯🚵🏻♀️
We enter the Costa da Caparica reserve📸⛰️ /Entramos a la reserva de costa da caparica🌎🚩
This part is not new, I have been here before so I will not dwell much on it. However, I can mention that this area is known as a protected area because there are hills over 100 meters high that date back to the Paleozoic era millions of years ago, and to preserve them and prevent cars or motorcycles from passing through, there are supervised paths just for hiking enthusiasts.🚩👨🏻🦯⛲
Esta parte no es nueva ya habia pasado por aqui por tanto no me detendre mucho a explicar, sin embargo puedo mencionar que esta zona se conoce como area protegida porque son colinas de mas de 100 metros de altura que datan de la era paleozoica hace millones de anos, y para conservarlas y evitar que pasen carros o motos tiene caminos supervisados solo para amantes del senderismo.😁🤔🌎
4km in arid zone📸⛰️ /4km en zona arida🌎🚩
We reached the last four kilometres and the most difficult part is at 4:00 pm and well the sun is impossible, I am starting to feel tired and I take more continuous breaks but my motivation is that from now on this whole area is new to me and I plan to discover the best views towards the city of Almada and the Atlantic Ocean, the path is well signposted and from here there is no civilization for at least 2km so you have to be careful.⛰️🚵🏻♀️🚙
Llegamos a los ultimos cuatro kilometros y los mas dificiles son las 16:00 y bueno el sol esta imposible, ya comienzo a sentirme cansado y hago pausas mas continuas pero mi motivacion es que a partir de ahora toda esta zona es nueva para mi y pienso descubrir las mejores vistas hacia la ciudad de Almada y el oceano Atlantico, el camino esta bien senalizado y a partir de aqui no hay civilizacion por lo menos hasta unos 2km asi que tienes que tener cuidado.🚩🌎
When we reach the last stretch of the walk we will see this desert landscape typical of arid Mediterranean areas, and more so now in summer we will see little vegetation and flowers, you always have to think that we are heading to the right, that is, Trafaria is to the north, be careful not to take sandy paths and getting lost is very easy in this area.🚙🚵🏻♀️
Cuando llegamos al ultimo trayecto de la caminata vamos a ver este paisaje desertico tipico de zonas aridas mediterranicas, y mas ahora en verano veremos poca vegetacion y flores, siempre tienes que pensar que vamos camino hacia la derecha osea Trafaria esta al norte ten cuidado para no tomar caminos de arenas y perderte es muy facil en esta zona.⛰️👨🏻🦯
My favorite part is here, what a piece of landscape and view, clearly the Atlantic Ocean then we have Almada, Costa de Caparica and other large cities on the southern shore, I think we are more than two hundred meters high, maybe more, it is quite dangerous, be careful not to get close to the cliff as some tourists fell here, SERIOUSLY BE CAREFUL.🚵🏻♀️🚙
Mi parte favorita es aqui, vaya pedazo de paisaje y vista, claramente el oceano atlantico luego tenemos almada, costa de caparica y otras grandes ciudades grandes del margen sur, creo que estamos a mas de doscientos metros de altura quizas mas, es bastante peligroso cuidado con no acercarte al acantilado ya algunos turistas cayeron por aqui, EN SERIO CUIDADO.🚩🌎
After two kilometers on this hill and enjoying the landscape we come out to a small village also in the middle of pine forests to almost finish the route we only have approximately 1.5km left.⛰️👨🏻🦯
Luego de dos kilometros en esta colina y disfrutar del paisaje salimos a una pequena aldea tambien en medio de bosques de pino para casi acabar el recorrido solo nos restan 1.5km aproximadamente.🚵🏻♀️👨🏻🦯
We arrived at the city of Trafaria📸⛰️ /Llegamos a la ciudad de Trafaria🌎🚩
And finally I'm close to achieving my goal, but first a little walk around the small town, which apparently is celebrating carnival today. I see lots of colorful decorations everywhere and several fast food stands in the central area, also a group of musicians playing popular Portuguese music. I quickly arrived to buy water since I didn't have any! We can visit the main church, which is from the 17th century. This area has always been inhabited, even since the Romanesque era, due to the Tejo River.🧭📸
Y al fin estoy cerca de cumplir mi objetivo pero primero una pequena vuelta a la pequena ciudad que al parecer esta de carnavales hoy, veo mucha decoracion colorida por todos lados y varios puesto de comida rapida en la zona central tambien un grupo de musicos tocando musicas populares portuguesas, llegue rapido a comprar agua ya que no tenia! podemos visitar la iglesia principal que es del siglo XVII esta zona siempre fue habitada inclusive desde la era romanica debido al rio tejo.🚩⛲
Beach and city port📸⛰️ /Playa y puerto de la ciudad🌎🚩
A nice place to stay for a day or two on vacation, it has everything you need: supermarkets, cheap hotels, a small beach, the transport boat that takes you to Belem Lisbon, the beach is not very crowded because it is not a supervised beach, in the distance you can see the center of Lisbon and all this is the Tejo river.⛰️🚵🏻♀️
Un lindo lugar para quedarte un o dos dias de vacaciones, tiene todo lo que necesitas supermercados, hoteles economicos, una playa pequena, el barco de transporte que te lleva a Belem lisboa, la playa no esta muy concurrida porque no es una playa vigilada, a lo lejos ves el centro de lisboa y todo esto es el rio tejo.🌎🚙
And friends, this is how my trail ends in front of the sign that has the description of the trail. If you look closely, I completed the entire route along the coast 100%. I was missing this part. Now we visited Porto Brandao and Trafaria. It was an intense and difficult walk. Normally in spring you can do it in 3 hours, but now in summer, with breaks, it takes about five hours.⛰️🚵🏻♀️
Y amigos asi termina mi sendero en frente del letrero que tiene la descripcion del sendero, si te fijas todo el recorrido por la costa lo complete al 100% me faltaba esta parte ahora conocimos Porto Brandao y Trafaria, fue una caminata intensa y dificil normalmente en primavera la haces en 3 horas pero ahora en verano con pausas toma unas cinco horas.⛲🚩
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