Exploring Portugal!: Day 2 - Exploring Portimao!

We all crashed early last night but only Raymond slept straight through the night. We were all up early, had our coffee and admired the morning view.

Then we drove to Portimao to take our tour of the Benagil Caves. It was beautiful traveling by boat and our guide, Felipe, was fun and informative. We saw many caves and amazing scenery and went into several different caves.

We had great seats in the front of the boat!

Here's a little video to let you see our view!

Afterwards, Felipe made a restaurant reservation for us. I had trouble opening what he'd sent and initially we went to the wrong place. We stopped for coffee and then Lori found the right place, which had terrific food (so good I forgot to take pictures!) Then we went to the Silves Castle which was perched high on a hill over looking the town and then we went to the Archaeological Museum (which we had a bit of trouble finding on the very, VERY narrow streets). Finally we headed back to our hotel.

View from Silves Castle

In front of Silves Castle

Inside the Castle

Archaeological Museum

Initially we went to the pool and then we headed down to the beach. We tried to get a drink and food from the restaurant there but it was much too crowded.

We decided to go back to the main pool at our hotel and get drinks and snacks there. The bartender made such a strong pina colada that I fell asleep and was still a little bit toasted hours later. Next, dinner at Antonio's on the beach!