Peneda-Gerês Waterfalls, Lagoons & Old Villages — Private Day Tour from Porto

The van slips out of Porto before the city has fully woken, the Douro valley shrinking in the rearview as vineyards give way to pastures and granite ridges. An hour and a half later the map unspools into the jagged green of Peneda-Gerês National Park, where rivers run with a will of their own and small waterfalls carve plunge pools that invite you to cool off. On this private day tour, easy walks unfurl from parking clearings into holly woods and over lichen-bright boulder fields; each short hike ends at another ribbon of crystalline water, a lagoon rimmed by stone slabs polished by centuries of flow.