Jun. 2024 Portugal 　　　　　　　

Summary

However I planed to visit Spain and Portugal in 2020, it was cancelled due to coronavirus.
After the pandemic went away, I change to visit Spain and Portugal separately and finished Spain last year.
Nine days domestic trip in Portugar, in addition three days round trip between Japan and Portugal.

Itinerary

I chose the Singapore airlines code sharing with the Lufthansa, via Singapore and Munich.
24 hours in planes, including in airports total time over 30 hours.

Domestic	1st day	Arrival in Lisboa afternoon, checking in the hotel, going around city center of Lisboa 2 or 3 hours.	Lisboa
	2nd day	Visiting Evora in the morning, going around Lisboa outside of previous day in the afternoon. Giving up Sintra and around Belem
	3rd day	Visiting Obidos and Nazare by local bus. It was very hard for me to look up bus timetable and connection.
	4th day	Leaving from Lisboa heading to Fatima by bus in the morning. After checking in the hotel, visiting the Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitoria by bus.	Fatima
	5th day	Moving to Coimbra by bus, to Aveiro by train in the morning. Visiting Costa Nova by bus and wondering Aveiro town by foot in the afternoon.	Aveiro
	6th day	Moving from Aveiro to Porto by bus in the morning. After checking in the hotel, Wondering Porto city.	Porto
	7th day	Going around Porto city in the morning, then checking out the hotel. Heading to the Porto Airport, Moving to the Faro Airport and the hotel in Faro.	Faro
	8th day	Minivan land tour from Faro, Benagil Cave, Praia da Marinha and so on.
	9th day	Moving to Lagos in the early morning bu train, boat tour to Benagil Cave from sea. After that, Moving to Lisboa afternoon by bus.	Lisboa

1st day
Lisboa

Arrival in Lisboa afternoon and moved to the hotel by subway.
It was around 3PM, so going around city center:
Miradouro de Sao Pedro de Alcantara, Igreja de Sao Roue and Museu Arqueologico do Carmo.

Near the exit of subway	Steep to Observatory	Miradouro de Sao Pedro de Alcantara
Miradouro de Sao Pedro de Alcantara	Miradouro de Sao Pedro de Alcantara	Downhill from Observatory

2nd day morning

Evora

I visited Evora in the morning by bus, unfortunately it was sometimes rain:
Catedral de Evora and Templo Romano de Evora.　

Catedral de Evora	Catedral de Evora	Catedral de Evora
Catedral de Evora	Catedral de Evora	Catedral de Evora
Templo de Diana	Downtown	Downtown

Afternoon

Losboa: Miradouro de Santa Luzia, Miradoouro da Graca, Miradouro da Senhora do Monte,
Igreja ou Mosteiro de Sao Vicente de Fora and Praca do Comercio.

Praca do Rossio	Praca do Rossio	Miradouro de Santa Luzia
Miradouro de Santa Luzia	Miradouro de Santa Luzia	Miradouro de Santa Luzia
Miradouro da Graca	Miradoouro da Graca	Downtown
Downtown	Miradouro da Senhora do Monte	Downtown
Igreja ou Mosteiro de Sao Vicente de Fora	Igreja ou Mosteiro de Sao Vicente de Fora	Igreja ou Mosteiro de Sao Vicente de Fora
Igreja ou Mosteiro de Sao Vicente de Fora	Downtown	Soap bubble at Praca do Comercio

3rd
day

Visiting Obidos and Nazare by bus. I thought I had booked bus ticket to Obidos, but it was Caldas da Rainha.
It was hub bus terminal of the distric. When I went to Nazare, transfered buses there.

Obidos

Since I got on the bus departed the Sete Rios Bus Station at 7AM, there is few people in Obidos around 8:30.

Porta da Vila	Downtown	Downtown
Downtown	Downtown	Downtown
Monument	Downtown	Downtown

Nazare

However it was cloudy from the morning, it was getting better when I arrived Nazare.
I was not able to find a cable car platform, so both way by walk.
Fortunately, It was sunny when I climbed on the observatory.
Farol da Nazare looked very far, I gave up to go there.

Downtown	In the middle of the observatory	Entrance of the observatory
From the observatory	The observatory	Look at the Farol da Nazare from distance
Santuario de Nossa da Nazare	Inside of the church	I don't know why he speaks Japanese
Ermida da Memoria	Inside of the Memoria	At the observatory
At the observatory	Downtown	At the beach

4th
day

I moved to Fatima by bus in the moring after checking out of the hotel in Lisboa.
After that, I left my luggages and went to the Santuario de Fatima as I had time till bus departure for Batalha.
And then, I got on the bus boud for Batalha, visited the Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitoria.

Fatima

Santuario de Fatima has tremendous large land.
One day group tour from Lisboa has long time in Fatima even though short time in Nazare, Batalha and Obidos.

Tremendous large land	Santuario de Fatima	Inside
Statue of Pope John Paul Ⅱ	City bus	City bus

Batalha

There was one bus per day bound for Batalha. The bus arrived Batalha around 2PM.
I killed the time in a park near by after Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitoria since,
since a bus for the way back departed past 6PM.。

5th
day

I moved from Fatima to Coimbra by bus and from Coimbra to Aveiro by train.
I planned to visti Coimbra initally, but changed the plan only transfer.
Taking trains are more difficult than buses.

Costa Nova

I went to Costa Nova by bus after I checked in the hotel in Aveiro.
The buses are not many cosidering on Saturday.

Aveiro

Aveiro is so vivid town. It was crowded with people in th town and canal cruises due to Saturday.

6th
day

I checked out the hotel in Aveiro, headed to the bus terminal and got on the bus for Port.
The bus arrived the new international terminal somewhat far from the downtown.
The bus terminal is next to the station, but I walked to the hotel in Porto.
After checking in, I went around the Port city center.

Porto Sao Bento	Downtown	Old town from opposite side
From the Miradouro da Serra do Pilar	From the Miradouro da Serra do Pilar	From the Miradouro da Serra do Pilar
Old town	Old town	Downtown
Old town	Old town	Old town
Old town	In the middle of wedding at the Igreja e Torre dos Clerigos	Downtown
Capela das Almas de Santa Catarina	Inside	Capela das Almas de Santa Catarina
Inside of Se do Porto	From observatory of Se	Igreja Paroquial de Santo Ildefonso

7th
day

I went around the Port city and checked out the hotel in Porto before noon.
Then headed to the Porto Airport by subway.
After I arrived the Faro Airport, headed to the hotel in Faro by bus.

8th
day

I participated in the mini ban tour I have booked beforehand:
Benagil Cave, 7 Hanging Vallyes, Praia da Marinha and Algar Seco Cave.

Lagoon around Faro





Looks likes heart-shaped
Downtown of Faro	Arco da Vila, Faro	Speciality shop of canned sardines

9th
day

I checked out the hotel in the early morning, and moved to Lagos by train.
I participated in the boat tour departing at 10AM. I have booked beorehand.
Caves and beach from land previous day, Caves and shore from sea that day.
And then I had lunch in Lagos, after that I got on a bus bound for Lisboa.
The buses bound for Lisboa always reached Sete Rios until then first time and only one Oriente.

last
day

I waked up at 3AM and moved to the airport at 3:30 since the airplane depart past 6AM.
I took a taxi easily because the hotel located near the Praca do Rossio.

Review	UEFA EURO 2024 was held in Germany, I received a email that said we shoud come airports earlyer than usual. It made me not to be bored in long flight and long transfer time in Changi: both live and recorded.
	We are not able to come off caps with bottles in Euro area.
	I booked the Ryanari as LCC for the first time in 7 years. If we don't check in online beforehand, we have to pay fare onece again in the check in counter.

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