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Private Evening Walk Inside the Forest: "Sintra Mountains Inbetween Wolves"

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Private Evening Walk Inside the Forest: "Sintra Mountains Inbetween Wolves"

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Highlights

  • Feel Sintra Mountains in total silence, broken only by the wind and the hoot of the owl
  • See the sunset with the Atlantic Ocean in the distance
  • Admire the Sintra Mountains' past through the words of an Historian
  • Walk in the evening in one of the most untouched parts of Sintra Mountains
  • Be accompanied by the sensibility, the eyes and the words of Miguel Boim, writer and Historian, author of "Sintra Lendária" (on its 2nd edition) - lectures and speeches on Sintra's history to more than 12K people (as to 2018 data)
  • You may feel at will to ask any question you may have related to Sintra's History and Heritage.

Itinerary

  • Sintra Railway Station(Pass by)

    Admission Ticket Free
    Two hours before the sunset you will be picked up by car at Sintra's train station. On your way to where this evening walk will start you'll be able to see in the distance Sintra's Castle, Pena Palace and the forest gradually beginning to surround you.
  • Sintra Mountains

    3 hoursAdmission Ticket Free
    Once arrived to the western part of Sintra Mountains, your walk will begin, as well as your journey to a distant past, through the words of an Historian. The walk will be about 5 kilometers, spanning around 4 hours, in regular and soft irregular terrain. The effort implied is equivalent to spending a whole afternoon strolling around Sintra, with its ups and downs. Whereas in the usual nocturnal walks one can recognize through the foliage, among the arches that define the old history of Mountain and Village, History's old stories and accounts, in "Sintra Mountains Inbetween Wolves" you'll travel under the black arc of the great sky, dotted with a thousand stars, to a past that's hard or impossible to imagine. But, before that, you'll see, in the sunset, the Sun falling in the Atlantic Ocean, with Cabo da Roca in sight too (if the day is unclouded). After the sunset we'll enter the forest, a most special part of our walk, where you'll experience the ambience as our ancestors did when they had cross the mountain, in the dark, on their way back home. You'll find mostly irregular terrain, but nothing a person without any mobility impairment can't handle. Coming in from the past, the fluttering of the foliage announces the wind in which the Light Hawk, the Bonelli Eagle, hide; it is from that same foliage that the Bubo Bubo shoots, in long flights, trying to observe, in the night, a glimpse of a running hare or the passage of a careless pigeon. Amid the sounds of the stream, the fox conceals its steps, the Three-Toed Skink tries to elude a snake by hiding its small paws. But, from the past, in this very Mountain, the wolves, the deer, the wild boars have also roamed these paths. There were also wild shepperds and friars who, due to their peculiar experiences and unexpected encounters, live on in words engraved, words that have outlasted the centuries as the desire to know and protect this recondite forest culture as it is, on the nights and days passing by us, revived in "Sintra Mountains Inbetween Wolves". And it's in this silence that the heart will become the eyes of these past lives, of these feelings of the present. You'll hear of some accounts and memories from the past, to better understand how one lived in the mountains, particularly regarding the religious orders and the unusual stories from a History written centuries ago. You may, or may not, have the chance, in the night, of observing some traces of the fauna that still exists in Sintra Mountains.
  • Sintra Railway Station

    10 minsAdmission Ticket Free
    In the end you'll carry the memory of having entered a soft forest at night, full of tales from the past. You will be transported back to Sintra's train station, where you were first picked up.

What's included

INCLUDED

Stopping at specifical points, where you'll hear unusual tales and facts from Sintra's History
Historian
You'll be provided with a safety vest, so you can be safe and visible in the dark of the night
Pick up at Sintra Train Station to take you to the starting point in the mountains

NOT INCLUDED

Bottled water
Inside access to the monuments is not part of the programme

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Additional information

Must Know
Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Good To Know
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Booking needed until 72 hours before the desired date (this activity happens inside a natural park and there are legal procedures involving the authorities that are needed).
The walk has about 5 kilometres in around 4 hours (circular route, including stoppings at specifical points).
Regular and irregular terrain.
The effort implied is equivalent to a stroll around Sintra's Historical Center for the whole afternoon.
This walk will occur under almost all weather conditions (being the exception the ones that may imply any risks for the participants or warnings from the Civil Protection) so please have the proper clothing and footwear.
In the case of city council events, festivals, constructions, others, route may be altered so that participants are not afflicted and still enjoy this different form of knowing Sintra.
Smoking not allowed.

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