Many of you have already joined our incredible Hooves Around Galicia, Spain trip, and we are teaming up again with the very same people for a brand new horse riding trip! While our Hooves Around Galicia trip is more about immersing in the local culture and exploring the area, this other one is a full blown horseback expedition - a true travel-on-horseback experience where you'll journey through from Galicia in Spain, to Portugal. You'll sleep in different places every night and live alongside the horses 24/7. A support vehicle will follow you on this once in a lifetime horseback expedition, transporting your luggage. You'll cover around 20 km per day on horseback, riding through forests, mountains, villages, rivers, untouched beaches, and across an international border - all in one week. It is truly one of our most diverse trips.
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Also check out our Hooves Around Galicia, and our Hooves Around Portugal trips. You could easily do both this trip and our Hooves Around Galicia and/or Portugal trips and have entirely different unique experiences!
This is a unique journey to immerse yourself in the Galician-Portuguese local cultures on the back of Pura Raza Gallega horses, native to the mountains of Galicia. On the first day of the trip you will be going on a trail ride close to Baiona to test the horses, and do a mountain riding workshop to get everyone comfortable with all kinds of terrain. Accommodation & dinner on the first day will be in the apartments in Baiona.
On day two of this horse riding holiday you will start riding south, and climb the mountains in search of wild horses. The south of Galicia is home to the largest population of wold horses in Europe. You will have a picnic lunch and continue to ride towards the river next to which you'll be camping for the night. Here, you have the opportunity to go for a swim in the natural pools, and you'll enjoy a barbecue under the stars before a great night sleep in the middle of nature.
On day three you will wake up in the mountains. After a hearty breakfast you will start your descent through local villages into wine country, where you'll visit the vineyards and enjoy a wine tasting. After a picnic lunch, you'll get the chance to gallop through the vineyards. At the end of a beautiful and diverse day of riding and tasting Galican wines and food, you'll reach your hotel for the night. This day you'll be staying in a luxurious and modern accommodation where you will have a gastronomic dinner before going out to explore the town. The horses will be sleeping next to the rooms in a field.
After another hearty breakfast on day four of the trip, you will ride closer and closer to the Portuguese border with the horses. Here, you get to cross the Miño river bridge - you will cross an international border on horseback! You will then ride along the river bank, a very scenic route, and have lunch in a local restaurant. After another amazing day of riding through diverse landscapes and two different countries, you will arrive at the accommodation - a family owned boutique hotel with double rooms near the river. The horses will be sleeping right beside you in a field inside the hotel garden. In the afternoon you'll get to chance to participate in lots of activities by the river - swim with the horses, paddle board, etc. Dinner will be served at the hotel and afterwards there are more than enough board games to have fun filled evening!
On day five of this horseback expedition, you will we ride along the Atlantic coast towards Viana do Castelo. This day allows for plenty of wild gallops on the empty long beaches of Portugal, but you will also ride through forests and small Portuguese towns. The accommodation on this day is a two storey house with an open floor, very big bedroom where the whole group will sleep, and it also has a kitchen, living room and several bathrooms. Horses sleep in a field next to the house.
On the last day of riding, you'll go for a short horse ride after breakfast, and meet back up with the trucks - the whole group and the horses will get picked up by car and driven back home to Galicia. In the afternoon you will visit the hot springs to relax after the journey and do a farewell dinner. Accommodation on this last night will be in Baiona, the same place as where this adventure started on day one. Day seven is the departure day.
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