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Porto Coastal Cycling
8 Days Excluding Flights From
8 Days from
£ 1549 £ 1599
Cycling
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Ways to Travel :
Self-Guided Holidays
Activity :
Cycling
Ages :
18+
Trip Code :
C07OP
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It’s a mystery how such a lovely region can be kept quite so secret, yet the coastline south of Porto and the Aveiro Lagoon make for some of the most relaxing cycling we’ve ever experienced. It’s almost perfectly flat too, making it ideal for first timers.

Your holiday starts in Porto, where shuttered townhouses tumble downhill to colourful rabelo sailing boats cruising the Douro River and passing world-famous wine cellars. From here, you’ll beach and bay hop south to your luxury beachfront hotel in Furadouro, before heading via the Aveiro Lagoon, home to pink flamingo and colourful birdlife, to Aveiro for two nights in a waterside mansion. Known as ‘Portugal’s Venice’, this is where colourful moliceiro boats cruise along canals beneath tall palm trees, while alleyways are filled with tempting restaurants. Your final cycling stretch takes you back to the ocean to high sand dunes, meandering through pine and acacia forest, to Praia de Mira.

Please note: Cycling helmets are a legal requirement in Portugal for anyone using an e-bike.

Highlights

  • Coastal cycling routes: beaches, sand dunes, lighthouses, colourful marinas and charming cities
  • Porto's famous wine cellars with wine tasting included; Aveiro's Venetian canals
  • Coastal and lagoon wildlife: pink flamingo, purple heron, kingfisher and sandpiper
  • 4-star hotels throughout in beachfront and city locations

Key Information

  • 7 nights hotel-to-hotel in 4 star accommodation
  • Management by your local Headwater-appointed agent
  • E-bike hire available on request (supplement applies)
  • Headwater navigation app
  • Countries visited: Portugal

What's Included

  • All continental breakfasts and 2 evening meals
  • Bike Hire
  • Luggage transfers between hotels
  • Port wine-tasting day 2
  • Airport transfer to the hotel in Porto
  • Transfer the last day from Praia de Mira to Aveiro train station

What's Not Included

  • Travel insurance
  • Local Tourist Taxes
  • Single accommodation (available on request - compulsory supplement)
  • Solo traveller supplement (where only one person is travelling on a departure date)
  • Visas or vaccinations

5 Days of Cycling

Terrain:

The suggested routes mainly follow a mixture of dedicated cycle paths, either beside the road or separate from the road, and along some tracks.

Day 2

20 km / 12.4 miles

Day 3

30 km / 18.6 miles

Day 4

34 km / 21.1 miles

Day 6

33 km / 20.5 miles

Day 7

24 km / 14.9 miles

Sustainability and Impact

As a certified B Corp, we’re on a mission to improve our social and environmental impact across all our adventures.

We do this through our innovative Thriving Nature, Thriving People plan.

This ‘nature positive’ approach is designed to help nature and communities thrive in harmony through practical solutions, such as reducing carbon and waste on our trips, supporting conservation projects through the Exodus Adventure Travels Foundation, and rewilding 100 square metres for every Exodus traveller.
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Porto Coastal Cycling

8 Days Excluding Flights From
8 Days from
£ 1549 £ 1599