The best ride in Portugal?

This week, Melissa and I go cycling in Geres National Park to check if it’s worth adding to the 2026 Portugal Moloko Escape… and the answer was a BIG YES! This area continues to blow us away with how beautiful and untouched it is…

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[Music] okay Where are we going we need to pick up the car Let me just check the directions No What you’re new castle What no No No No No No I don’t do that You have to go in Newcastle No No No No No It’s fine It’s fine It’s fine We’re good That’s going to be an interesting day You look like Dora the Explorer [Music] Bonjour I’m Alex from Mono and this week I am still in Portugal with my friend Melissa We’ve been here for 10 days We’ve been cycling around a lot It’s such a beautiful area and today we thought let’s go and explore a little bit further So we hired a car parked in Pon Barka and are about to do 100 kilometers on our road bike in Jes National Park We have about 2 and a half thousand meters of elevation gain in this ride So lots of really nice climbs That should be fun And the mission of the day is to find some rock pools to go for a dip We brought our bikinis with us Billions of snacks because we have no idea of what we’re going to find If there are going to be some restaurants some places we also going to cross the border to Spain and then back again to Portugal It should be fun I’m super excited Let’s ride Full disclaimer we are super hooked after the movie of cycling We’re feeling so tired but we’ve got this We’ve got [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this Pretty special Hey [Music] Okay this is amazing It’s incredible It’s like a giant [Music] playground We’re climbing and crossing the border back to Portugal [Music] I’m not hot I’m not tired It’s all in the mind My god this is so beautiful It’s like a different world The waterfalls everywhere and we really close to our walk now But so stunning I’m really glad we came here Same same I’m glad we did not give up We were thinking at the beginning of the ride to crash the whole thing Just get in the car and drive it We’re halfway Yeah Just over here I think I think we will be flying after those Yeah I’m hoping we’ve got tailwind cuz we’ve had enough headwind [Music] Are you feeling it i can tell And like I love a bit of rock climbing It’s my favorite hobby I think I’m going to go down in my sock We put our feet in It’s going to be fun Okay Okay Let’s do it I love that we keep our helmets on Yeah Safety [Music] first Swim was amazing We now continue and the next part of this ride is for the quest of the cheese sandwich Oo is that a cheese sandwich yes it is a cheese sandwich Cheese sandwich identifies [Music] Um it might not look very glamorous but they have ice cream and it’s very very cheap See nothing can go wrong with a sandwich It looks dry as it’s going to do the job Although you were totally planning hari for lunch breakfast lunch and dinner Aribo get into us for the sponsorship please Currently on another 8K climb We really should have checked that food before doing it It’s beautiful but the legs my god Anyway we also would like to listen to music to give us a little bit of a oops a little bit of a perk But both our phones are about to die There’s no battery so Medita is about to sing now We’ll be [Music] back I’m so happy we here We’ve been winging cuz we’re so tired But this is so amazing You know what would be amazing right now like a giant how do you call it in English slide A giant slide that we can go like all the way down the lake You can swim and take the boat home The slide Are we taking the bikes on the slide the bike We think we’re getting a little bit delirious Melissa keep talking Guess who’s having a piscos by the pool tonight [Music] woohoo it’s [Music] time What’s coming forever this climb Okay Stunning Stunning Stunning Stunning That’s for us Okay I believe this is the last big climb of the ride 6K That would do just like I need to remember I could be sat at an office chair at a desk doing spreadsheets right now Instead I’m doing Portuguese coach Oh kill me [Music] And we are done 110 kilometers It was amazing people you do need to come to that part of Portugal It was just incredible At the beginning we were a bit like oh we’re tired But honestly those landscapes were just insane It was one of my favorite rides ever Like it was such a good surprise And the best of the best There is no one We haven’t seen a cyclist We saw maybe three cars in the day You’ve got those amazing landscapes just for you and those calves those horses There’s also water fountains everywhere which is amazing So water waste that makes your life easy We did find some snacks but we were prepared I actually can’t wait to add this route to our Portugal trip next year I’m going to find a way to get all the bikes to the beginning of the of the national park and organize transfers and transport like this we can add this because it’s it’s stunning It’s unmissable I really hope you enjoyed this video and that you found interesting discovering that untouched site of Portugal Um I think most of you have never been probably If you’ve been here as well before please let me know in the comments and share your tips as well with us Thank you so much for watching and see you in the next video [Music] [Applause] [Music]