Portugal, Travel

Fonte do Pego, Portugal

Exploring, Fonte do Pego, Castelo Branco, Central Portugal.

Set inside a gorge full of fossils, a short walk from a preserved traditional millers house with a working watermill stone and overlooked by Penha Garcia castle you will find the most spectacular natural swimming pool.  Fonte do Pego has to be the best way to cool down ever.  A beautifully crafted swimming hole utilising the natural flowing waters of the river with the added bonus of a waterfall to swim underneath!

Waterfall, Fonte do Pego, Castelo Branco, Central PortugalSteps, Fonte do Pego, Castelo Branco, Central Portugal.

The pool is alongside a Fossil route in the Naturtejo Geopark and this amazing wild swimming hole has been carefully carved out of the rock that surrounds it.  The water here seemed warmer than the nearby faster flowing river beaches and was a welcoming sight after our walk.  We were lucky enough to have had the place to ourselves and after a swim the boys had lots of fun climbing and sliding on the rocks.  Just along from the pool is a fossil museum and working ancient mill.  If you time it right you can still see the power of the water turning the millstone to grind flour.  As we headed back along the Ruta de Fosseis (Fossils walk) to the car park located next to the dam, we spotted loads of amazing looking fossils high on the gorge.

Stepping Stones, Fonte do Pego, Castelo Branco, Central Portugal.Rock Climbing Fonte do Pego, Castelo Branco, Central PortugalFossil, Fonte do Pego, Castelo Branco, Central Portugal.

Click the camera icon below to see what other awesome bloggers have been photographing this week.

Photalife

 

14 Replies to “Fonte do Pego, Portugal”

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

CommentLuv badge

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Follow our expat adventures as we travel in Portugal and Spain. Outdoor family fun, escaping the rat race in search of a more simple and alternative life. Andrea, Paul and our two boys Chaos and Mayhem. Thanks for reading!Read more...

Instagram

  • What's this mummy and daddy...what does it do? 😂 I love his curiosity and genuine interest in all things historical. Put him in a museum full of interesting artefacts and he's a happy boy #museumkids #historyiscool #lancashirelife
  • On a treasure hunt! Which way do we go next boys? #explorerkids #treasurehunt #lovelancashire
  • Anyone else with a three year old who hates rides?! 🤨 #threenager #strongwilledchild #fairgroundrides
  • Fun time playing in the arcades today. We made the trip back to Morecambe to pick up a lost wallet that was thankfully handed in. All there and very thankful 😁 Just had to listen to an hour of non-stop stories in the car all about the boy's invisible friends?! They don't really have invisible friends, just like to make up spectacular stories and tall tales all about what their non-existent partners-in-crime get up to on their fantastical planets! #kindnessofstrangers #imagination #amazingstories
  • On our recent visit to Santillana Del Mer we were staggered to realise that we had walked this path before. Pre-children, well almost (if you don't count the fact that we were pregnant with our eldest as a 10 week old little bean) we had visited the medieval village walking the 800km path of the Camino de Santiago, the way of Saint James. We recognised the now defaced sign, that we had previously marched passed in 2012, when we were tempted by the pellegrino menu on offer. In contrast, this time we could sit and relax, eat chicken, calamari and drink a bottle of wine; play with the boys and marvel at how grown up they were, running off to play table football and ordering themselves glasses of water from the bar in Spanish *New Post on the blog* Scroll right to see the 2012 photo #familytravel #mysundayphoto #explorerkids
  • One of the best things about the UK...indoor fun! OK so it's not rock climbing, walking and outdoor loviness but boy was it fun; the boys thought so anyway. Who knew there were warehouses full of trampolines to discover?! Great to catch up with @parenttribeadventures and celebrate J's birthday too, like having a little bit of Portugal here in the cold and rainy UK. Shame we left Paul's wallet at the pizza place around the corner...only just realised we lost it this morning and after the whole day of searching everywhere we phoned up to find they kept it for is. Yes! Thank goodness for the kindness of Northerners. Looks like week have to pay another visit to Morecambe 😍 #trampolining #kindnessofstrangers #indoorfun #daysoutwithkids
  • This is what happens in the UK...All you can eat carvery, where you even have the option to 'go large' 🤐 Oh my... someone certainly got their value for money!! #allyoucaneat #hungryhungry #burp
  • Exploring the underworld adventure at @sealifemanc2018 Wow, what an amazing place! The boys were so enthralled with the hundreds of different species of aquatic delights #familytravel #daysoutwithkids #explorerkids
  • On our last night in Portugal, just over a week ago now we visited our local cafe with the boys. After a few farewell drinks we wondered where the eldest had disappeared to, we found him having a tour of the village in our neighbour's horse! 💖 his fearlessness #familytravel #portugal_lovers #portugal_photos
  • When you go for a little stroll around town and suddenly bump into a fire engine! Talk about the happiest boy ever #firefighter #fireman #funseekingkids

Subscribe

Enter your email address to subscribe and receive new posts by email.

Categories

© 2017 www.topsyturvytribe.com. All rights reserved.

Designed & maintained by Tribe Virtual Assistant

WordPress Di Blog Theme

%d bloggers like this: