The Algarve - The Perfect Coasteering Destination

Portugal has been long famous as a holiday destination due to its incredible culture, delicious food and cosmopolitan cities. The Algarve especially has become one of Europe's most popular destinations amongst tourists and who can blame them?  The Algarve boasts amazing weather, beautiful beaches and wonderful friendly locals - but the thing that attracted us most is its stunning coast.

In the western Algarve, the area that we have come to know as home, we have the perfect conditions for coasteering. Stretching north from Sagres we have the wild & rugged west coast. We can't always go coasteering here due to the predominant north-west ocean swells hitting the shoreline, but every now and again, when the waves permit, this area provides phenomenal cliff jumping and awesome rock formations for climbing and exploring.

Coasteering on the Algarve's Western Coast

The South coast between Sagres and Lagos is equally stunning with small fishing villages such as Salema and sandy beaches. In the summer, the sea is often much calmer here and the shoreline is easy to explore. In most areas the rock is a soft sandstone making it incredibly difficult and dangerous for climbing, but between these areas there are much stronger bands of limestone into which the ocean has carved great caves and archways - the perfect playground for coasteering. The south coast is one of our favourite places to go coasteering in the Algarve.

Exploring caves on the south coast of the Algarve

Then there's the mid-coast of Sagres. The tip of the peninsula is surely one of the most beautiful coasts in Europe, if not the world. The cliffs are spectacular with plenty of hidden caves and coves and huge rocky platforms making in a cliff jumping paradise. The way that the land drops into the ocean here is really dramatic and it's easy to see how people once believed that this was the end of the world. Coasteering here is
awesome - you really get the feeling of being on an adventure in the wilderness. 

Coasteering at the The End of the World

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