4.5 hours · Mornings
The Other Algarve
Twenty minutes inland and the resort disappears. A Moorish castle, a Roman bridge, and a village with a waterfall running through it. This is the Portugal people fly home wishing they'd seen.
€82per person · children 3–11 €41
Where we go
- Paderne Castle
- The Roman bridge
- Alte village & waterfall
- Medronho tasting at a family still
The practical bits
- Toilet stop
- Two — at Paderne and again in Alte village.
- Getting in and out
- The castle path is rough underfoot and there are no handrails. Message me before you book and I'll tell you what's realistic.
- Children
- Seatbelts on every seat, and everyone wears one. If your little one is too small for a belt, message me before you book.
- Youngest
- No minimum, but it's a long morning for very small children.
- Time of year
- All year, and honestly it's better out of season. Nobody there, and you don't need beach weather for it.
- If the weather turns
- The sides come down and I bring blankets from November. If it's genuinely wet I'll move you or refund you.
- Group size
- Up to 6 of you in one tuk tuk. More than that and I bring a second driver, same price each.
What I promise
- I'll be there, or you don't pay
- Outside your hotel at the time we agreed. If I'm more than fifteen minutes late and haven't messaged you, the tour's free. You're booking a stranger in a foreign country — that shouldn't be the thing you're worrying about.
- Weather's rubbish? We move it
- Not a refund, a better day — as many times as you like while you're here, at no charge. The sides come down so drizzle is nothing, but I'm not driving you round in the wet and calling it a holiday. If you fly home before we manage it, you get your money back.
- Your pace, not my timetable
- If the kids want another twenty minutes in the sea, we stay. I've never once cut a tour short to get back for the next one, and I'd rather run three good ones a day than six rushed ones.