PART OF THE TREK TO THE FLATS

DAY 6 - ALVADOS DAY 2:

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May 13th 2014
TODAY, OUR FIRST OBJECTIVE WAS TO VISIT THE PEGADAS DOS DINOSSAURIOS (DINOSAUR FOOTPRINTS) PARK. WE HEADED BACK UP THE ROAD WE'D COME IN FROM LISBON, THEN TURNED TOWARDS FATIMA AT MIRA DE AIRE. JUST BEFORE REACHING FATIMA, WE MADE THE TURN EAST TOWARDS THE PARK AND HAD LITTLE TROUBLE FINDING IT. AS BEFORE, BUSINESS WAS PRETTY SLOW AND WE WERE ABOUT THE ONLY TOURISTS THERE. THIS PARK HAS THE MOST E ... read more

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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil a... ... read more