Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Visiting Spain Via Portugal only's Natural Park, Gerês..

 So we were getting ready for our next trip!!! I remember Nasim was all the time saying "Gerês Baby"!! (I am still smiling about that expression!- Good one Nasim!) That was the name of the Natural park....

It was obvious Fardin was trying to get himself in this photo.... Nice Try Fardin!

So we were already there!! It was quite hot out there!!


We stopped here to see the  nice view of the valley...

then we were down .. How great it looks???

tried to capture some photos of us !!!

After enjoying the great view, we headed towards other view point called "Pedra Bela"..
On our way we stopped here and found this place interesting..




and here I should say "this is the funniest photo of our entire trip".. I was insanely hungry and eating bread. 
(If you ever see me eating bread either I am so hungry or there is no food other than bread in a table)

so you can imagine! But I like this photo to be laughed and remembered by!

Four of us!

then we headed to our target place... Pedra Bela.. Interesting rocks!!!



Nasim attempted Brave move!! It looked pretty dangerous.. That is why you can see I was sitting on her lap.. I didn't want to take a risk of shifting!! 

few more photos in that region....












Small fountain.. it was refreshing!!


Also a fresh water was helping my thirst!!



Finally we reached our targeted restaurant to have our lunch!! It was around 5 pm.. So that explains how hungry I was to eat that bread! Ha ha.. Felt like owe an explanation!

We even knew that what we are going to eat and where .. that was very well explained in a plan.. One of our friends made this nice plan.. Because he lived here for 30 years. so no escape!!

we enjoyed really the food..It was so good indeed!!

And I should say this it was the cheapest and delicious food we have ever had in Europe.
I suggest everyone should go to this place whenever you visit Gerês

and comes the relaxing moment!! 





 
this was the interesting shop.. hand made wooden stuff.. so we stopped by and bought some stuff.


I was really thinking!! Hmmm... It was all about our next stop...

  This was the plan our friend made.. I have to really show this to you! 

So here I am trying to explain to the driver (Fardin) and co-pilot (Abol).. Believe me they seem to be listening.. But honestly they weren't. No offense guys!
if you talk with Nasim she explains better! Ha ha... 

I will tell you one small story... this is all about "GPS".. Now I have very little respect for that.. sorry.. It made us to waste our traveling time a lot!! and funny we had to come back several times to the same place..

GPS is good but for sure not always.. Road signs were very clear and It was very clearly written the direction in a huge letters. But our driver never wanted to follow that and he was so obsessed with GPS and ended up with ........ ha ha ha... you can fill!

okay, anyway... we were crossing these very old style of storage places on our way to Spain (that was very veryyyyyyyyy long way!! I am not sure still that it is the GPS problem or that is the only way to get to Spain!!) Will have to confirm...


Finalmente, we reached spain border. Everyone of us were so tired just needed good bed to rest.. We did!!

       ..... continued next day in Spain.. and it was my big day!! Guess what??



2 comments:

  1. Thanks Porkodi. Good explain. Just one thing! NDrive GPS software on my phone is working very well but sometime it doesn't show exit ways clearly and sometime it need to be update. Anyway, when you are near to destination it is better to follow road signs. I checked the way to Spain from Geres! Sara had chosen shortest path.:))

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  2. Trying to defend?!?!

    Nice try anyway!

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