Cascata do Arado

This is one of the most popular waterfalls in the region, so you really need to arrive early to enjoy it properly. I recommend getting there between 07:00 and 08:30 if you want a good parking spot and a peaceful moment before the crowds arrive. 🚗☀️ The walk to the waterfall is short and easy, and the view is beautiful — especially in the early morning light. 🏞️ Bring your camera and maybe breakfast for a perfect start to the day. --- For more tips follow me on Google. I have a lot of maps and places to visit all around the world 🌎 all for free for my followers on Google Maps.

A beautiful waterfall accessible from the road in 5-10 minutes. The waterfall has a few small pools in between, which are safe to enjoy a dip in, but there is a challenging wild path to get to them.

Pretty water fall. Easy enough walk to it. We parked where the road ended and the dirt road started. You can hike down to the base and swim if you want. Lots of water pools on the way up to sit in the water. Also a hike up to a view point by the parking area.

A good hike to this beautiful granite rock face waterfall. You can hike ( reasonably hard ). There is a hike path, that is labeled but I could work it out so I used the road. The other option is to drive to the waterfall. The time you save can be spent swimming in one of the many small pools ( that requires a bit of careful minor rock walk). Now I did not read up prior to the hike else I would have driven up and enjoyed the nature swim. But the hike was good for my body and soul so it was not in vain. I am happy my body is in good shape😜 I added some pictures of the mushrooms that I found along the way. I am certain there are some edible mushrooms out there but my knowledge stops with Chanterelles only. One picture shows the village where I started the walk, so you know how much is the climb. That picture is midway the climb. Coming down was easy, I ran some of the sections. All in all it took my 4.15 hours with a 10 to 15 mins on the top. But expect a longer duration if you are not a hiker.

A beautiful place. When we visited (a sunny day in October) it was very crowded. Because of the extended warm season, there was not a whole lot of water going down. Will definitely visit again during spring-time!

Very nice and natural with trails to go to different beautiful spots to lay in and bath, watch out for slippery rocks, and some trails are hard to walk or even find.

Very nice place to visit, you can park at the beginning of the dirt road and go by foot (10mn walk) but feel free to take your car/van closer to the waterfall since the dirt road is ok to drive and you have a lot of spaces to park your car or even bigger vans; the place people take bath in this waterfall requires you to go through an unmarked trail and basically go trough the river up to the bottom of the waterfall, since the official visit leads you to the top of the waterfall

A very challenging and long single track road with sheer drop on one side to reach this point from Geres so beware! But the waterfall was very pretty and it is a beautiful area ..not enough water in October for it to be truly spectacular