Bobadela

Today’s route was beautiful and covered a very diverse geography.

I started out in the old town area of Lisbon and then gradually went into a shipping and industrial yard, which then led into an extremely fancy area with public art, fancy apartments, and a huge shopping mall named after explorer Vasco De Gama. Honestly it’s quite fitting though as he was the first person to sail to Asia from Europe and the mall likely carries a majority of products manufactured in Asia.

Somehow a few blogs from the shopping mall there was just a kid path that I needed to take next that eventually led to a beautiful 5km wooden bridge above a nature preserve. I did not document this well, but you can see the view I had on the bridge overlooking the Sea of Straw which is where the Tagus River empties. Along the way, there were a number of signs indicting what type of flora and fauna can be found nearby. One species that apparently can be found from November to March impart large flocks of Flamingos. Sadly, they did not seems to be around today.

The remainder of the walk went through a number of large towns that were definitely more of where I’d image the average Portuguese person lives as there was clearly different types of industry, retail, and a lot more cars.Read more