Although Portugal isn’t that big a country, it has quite different landscapes, culture as we move south. Tejo, the river, separates the more hilly side of the country with it’s wide expanses of land that lead to the Algarve.

The coast has some fine yet undisturbed beaches in between cliffs. Towards the countryside, lazy, white villages, and big “montes” as must as farms with cereal and cork-trees. Also an excellent wine making region.

From the Serra de Monchique further there comes the Algarve, perhaps the best known part of Portugal together with Lisbon. Here are lovely beaches, the long stretches of white sand and quiet clear waters to the east and rather windy and more roughed waters to the west.