Day 17 (Around Arcachon and the big walk on the Dune du Pilat)

Last day of vacations, tomorrow is the big drive straight to Portugal. These last days we have been taking it easier, otherwise we would arrive to Portugal and would need another 15 days just to recover LOL.

Thus, we went to the town of Arcachon and just walked a bit in the streets at late morning. It is a small place and as expected it seems to be only alive during the summer. There are some nice restaurants close to the water (as usual).

Beach at Arcachon

 A curious thing with this town is the presence of some curious looking houses in some streets. In the old days this town was base for many rich merchants that built very ornamented and colorful houses.

"Disneyland style" almost

The last thing we did was as we mentioned before to walk to the highest part of the Dune du Pilat (around 117m). The photos are not so different from yesterday although we went sooner this time, around 17h. The walk on the dune itself is a nice one due to the views, but requires some physical activity :P

Walking through the "desert" :P

Halfway and looking at our starting point (the small peak further away)

Finally we reached the peak LOL

Then it was time to descend it towards the water :)

At the base of the dune :)

And that's it folks :) Thanks for watching. Tomorrows journey is the longest one (842Km) since we decided not to stop in Spain and go straight to Portugal (Guarda first stop) (it's time to start the new life :)

Final route

This journey was also our "official" honey moon since we did not have time to do one after our wedding a bit more than a year ago :).

The final conclusion: we are happy with our choice of places for the time that we had :)