Serra D´Arga waterfalls, watermills and traditions

Private Tour from Porto or Braga: Explore Pincho waterfalls in Minho North of Portugal, visit Montaria watermills and visit a traditional farm where you can make your own cornbread!Private Tour from Porto or Braga: Explore Pincho waterfalls in Minho North of Portugal, visit Montaria watermills and visit a traditional farm where you can make your own cornbread!Private Tour from Porto or Braga: Explore Pincho waterfalls in Minho North of Portugal, visit Montaria watermills and visit a traditional farm where you can make your own cornbread!Private Tour from Porto or Braga: Explore Pincho waterfalls in Minho North of Portugal, visit Montaria watermills and visit a traditional farm where you can make your own cornbread!Private Tour from Porto or Braga: Explore Pincho waterfalls in Minho North of Portugal, visit Montaria watermills and visit a traditional farm where you can make your own cornbread!Private Tour from Porto or Braga: Explore Pincho waterfalls in Minho North of Portugal, visit Montaria watermills and visit a traditional farm where you can make your own cornbread!

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  • Category: Walking, Serra D'Arga
  • Tour Grade: Easy View Tour Grades
  • Duration: 8 hours
  • Distance: 4 kms
  • Available: all year (you can book on any day of the week, subject to availability)
  • Meeting Point: Montaria, Viana do Castelo
  • Minimum N.º of Participants: 1
  • Price: on request
  • Included: Guide, walking poles, insurance, Portuguese cornbread experience, picnic lunch with local food and drinks

Leave the city for a day and book this trip with Descubra Minho to discover the natural beauty that is Serra D’Arga Nature Reserve (1 hour from Porto city center and 40 min. from Braga), its wonderful 7 lagoons, visit watermills that are still working today and even… make your own cornbread!

Itinerary:

9:00 a.m or 10:00 a.m - Pick up at your hotel

Visit to Montaria mountain village and walking tour through the waterfalls and the 7 lagoons of Serra D’Arga (during this tour, if you only wish, there is time for you to have a swim in the lagoons).

12:30 a.m – Picnic lunch with local food and vinho verde (honey, homemade cornbread, chouriço, ham, fruit of the season, water, orange juice, wine and a local liquor)*

After our picnic lunch we will visit a farm in Montaria village where you can learn the secrets of making homemade cornbread after which you will be able to make your own cornbread.

Afterwards, while the bread gets ready in the oven, we will visit the inside of a still working watermill and learn about the corn cycle – all the steps of how corn becomes the bread.

The tour ends at the farm tasting your freshly made hot cornbread with honey, jam, orange juice and water.

Special offer: discount for groups!

What should you bring for this tour:

Swimsuit, towel, hat, sunscreen, comfortable hiking shoes or sneakers and camera (optional).

Optional services:

  • On request we can offer a vegetarian or vegan picnic as well as products without gluten. Therefore, we would like to ask you, while you book a tour, let us know about anyone’s possible food restrictions.
  • Transfer from the place of stay to this tour and return: price on request
  • Accommodation: different kinds of accommodation is available in the region, contact us in order to learn the alternatives.

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