The Buddha Eden Gardens and Obidos in the rain

This place is simply crazy! It is a bit out of place in Portugal and we thought it would have a few statues of Buddha but in fact its huge. Hundreds of statues of Buddha including a couple of massive ones plus other sculptures depicting other areas around the world. We managed to have a good look around considering there were heavy showers.

A Blue Terracotta Army

Another Blue Terracotta Army

An African watering hole

A seat made from out stretched fingers!

Very loud frogs

Buddha taking a rest

From here we travelled to the old walled town of Obidos for the night. Its very unusual to find a town with the wall totally intact with a great wall walk without health and safety! It's a picturesque little place but very touristy. We had a very tasty meal in the evening - bream for Dee and pork for Phil.

Fram Castle used to be like this

The Hill Town of Sintra

On Sunday we visited the old hill town of Sintra and took the bus from the campsite, later realising that the clocks had changed that morning. We were lucky that our phone had auto corrected! Our first visit was the Park and Palace of Monserrate.

Next we visited the Quinta da Regaleira built by an eccentric Free Mason and started by descending the intriguing Initiation Well. Amazingly, although it was built in the early 1900's it seems on one seems to know what it was built for!

The well leads down to a series of tunnels which lead outside further down the hill. Its amazing that all this was built just for fun.

The hunting room

We spent a lovely evening in Sintra before an Uber ride back to the campsite.

Dee took a short trip to the beach on 'Sandy' the Brompton!