Thursday 3rd October

The road trip on our  last day in Portugal took us up into the high country of the Parque Natural da Serra Estrela. This magnificent forested park with lakes and tumbling streams is home to Portugal’s highest mountain called Torre which is just shy of 2000 meters, today it had its head in the clouds, but visibility did clear at 1600 meters to reveal the Vale do Zezere a spectacular glacier formed valley that our road followed all the way down to the main town in the park called Manteigas. From there we journeyed on across the plains to Salamanca in Spain, for our night’s campsite.

Shepherd's hut in the clouds

Linda on the rocks at 1600m

Tumbling streams

...and waterfalls

Zezere Valley

Rocks and trees

Sunset at Salamanca after 6 days of solid rain