All year round
Dates
4 / 10
Physicality
+/- 9 Hours
Duration
6+
Age
Aveiro, Paiva
Location
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In this tour, the walk difficulty level is easy/medium! You`ll walk only 5km and downstream!
Short description: You`ll go across one of the longest suspension bridges of the world and walk one of the most beautiful trails: The Paiva Walkways! Visit one of the highlights of Portugal: Costa Nova, and Aveiro, the Portuguese Venice!
We leave from Porto towards Arouca town where we will stop shortly for bathrooms and coffee.
After a short drive, we`ll arrive at the Walkways and go across the Suspension Bridge! It spans 516 meters-long across the valley and hangs 175m above the Paiva river!
Notice: crossing the bridge is not mandatory. You have the option to skip it.
Then, you`ll walk the Paiva Walkways downhill in a total length of 5km over a wooden boardwalk zig-zagging along the left bank of the river. Trail Areinho-Vau.
The walk will be followed by another highlight of our day: lunch! (fish and vegetarian options also available)
After a power nap in the van, we`ll arrive to Costa Nova! Costa Nova is one of the highlights of Portugal – a beautiful fishing village known for its striped colorful houses!
Time to enjoy Aveiro, also known as the “Portuguese Venice”! Discover the city center on a short walk, enjoy some free time and relax on a boat trip to see the charming city through the canals!
Finish the day back in Porto.
PICK UP/DROP OFF | At meeting point: Calçada da Vandoma, next to Estátua de Vimara Peres (cathedral) | ||
START AT / END | 8:00 am / 6:30 pm (approx) | ||
INCLUDED |
Visit to Costa Nova and Boat ride at Aveiro canals |
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NOT INCLUDED |
Any service that is not clearly specified in the inclusions |
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Detailed itinerary
- Meet at the meeting point: Calçada da Vandoma, next to Estátua de Vimara Peres – (Horse statue at Porto Cathedral);
- The Paiva Walkways;
- The Arouca 516 Footbridge (optional)
- Traditional lunch at Arouca;
- Visit to cost Nova
- Drive to Aveiro;
- City center and fish market;
- Boat ride at the Aveiro canals.
Return to Porto.
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Tour Reviews
Something different
An experience not to be missed. A walk over the Arouca Suspension bridge wonderful scenic views followed by a wooden boarded walkway through the valley for about 5.9 miles. You certainly need a reasonable level of fitness to do this and there is a lot of steps at the beginning but such a worthwhile experience and sense of achievement. Joao our guide had a fantastic knowledge of history. Our village lunch was excellent accompanied by the local vino verde. Our afternoon visit to Aveiro at the coast gave us a good insight into life there and we finished the day with a traditional boat ride on the canals. A long day but would recommend
An amazing adventure with your while
We had an amazing guide with João. He was extremely knowledgeable and fun. The day was jam packed, but each place was great. One minor complaint is that the air stopped working in the van and we were seated in the back.
Highly recommend this tour!
Great experience! Absolutely beautiful and the lunch was very nice. The hike is strenuous so not for someone with mobile disabilities.
Notre guide Ricardo était fabuleux. Nous avons passé une superbe journée, pas de temps mort. Le déjeuner du midi était très bon dans un restaurant calme. Bravo pour cette organisation
Guide génial et tj present pour ses clients. Rien a dire excellent
Fun Tour for adventurers
Excellent tour and good value for money. Our guide Juan was also very nice, knowledgeable
and spoke very good English. Highly recommend
Recomendo vivamente para quem gosta de caminhadas e de adrenalina.
Um passeio a recomendar. O guia Ricardo fez um excelente trabalho. Muitos parabéns pela
atenção e dedicação. Um serviço a repetir.
I had an excellent experience crossing the bridge and doing the full hike. The guide was very informative and engaging. He made sure everyone was comfortable. I would definitely recommend him.
Grandioos. Ricardo zorgt dat iedereen het naar zijn zin heeft en legt alles duidelijk uit.
It was an awesome trip! Many thanks to our awesome guide Ricardo who contributed enormously in making this journey a lovely one. He was very kind and provided valuable information throughout the trip. Absolutely recommend this if you have a free day in Porto.
Vue incroyable!
Très belle activité, la vue est incroyable et la marche sur le bord de l’eau c’était vraiment bien!
Nous le recommandons!
Wir hatten trotz einigen Regenschauern einen tollen Tag mit unserem Guide João. Die Tour ist Top organisiert und ohne viel Steigung für jeden halbwegs mobilen machbar. Es ist keine Massenabfertigung und sehr informativ gewesen. Auf der Brücke sind keine Regenschirme gestattet und ausreichend Wasser mitnehmen.
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