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Forty-Three Climbs

Day six in the Algarve: 263 km and 43 climbs from Silves over Monchique to the Atlantic side at Aljezur, back past the Odiáxere dam and over Monchique again. Read the ride.

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Forty-Three Climbs

Low sun over the hills on the road between Alferce and Monchique

Sun up over the serra

Rider and bike casting a long early-morning shadow on the road climbing towards Alferce

A long shadow on the climb to Alferce

Concrete irrigation channel and sluice beside a farm road near Barranco do Inferno

Water channel at Barranco do Inferno

Handlebar view down a wide dirt road through dry countryside

Onto the dirt roads

Dirt track running between tall eucalyptus trees

Eucalyptus-lined track

View over the serra from near the top of the climb up to Alferce, with a crash barrier in the foreground

Looking back down from the Alferce climb

Black road bike parked beside the Monchique sign and statue in the town centre

Monchique, 43 km in

Herd of cattle grazing on a green field below a scrubby hillside west of Marmelete

Cattle west of Marmelete

Wind turbine against a bright blue sky beside a gravel track near Alfambras

Turbines near Alfambras

Solar panels with wind turbines beyond, just past the Bravura reservoir

Solar farm and turbines

Black road bike leaning on a wooden fence above the Bravura reservoir behind the Odiáxere dam

Bravura reservoir, above the Odiáxere dam

Rider and bike shadow on a cracked country road on the way back north

Shadow over cracked tarmac

Forty-Three Climbs

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