Beautiful Alto Minho in the Paredes de Coura district of Portugal offers one of the best sights for a memorable and thrilling horseback riding experience. With an expansive 20,000 square meters of riding area, the Alto Minho Center provides various riding trails raging from the easiest to the most challenging trail. This is offered as a 3-4 day horse back riding program for local and foreign tourists.
Most of its programs have handicaps in mind for a therapeutic horseback riding course alongside its TREC or Techniques of Equestrian Randonee for competitive sporting events. The equestrian and wildlife school is focused on educating riders about cartography, horse grooming, basic horseshoeing, first aid for horses as well as environmental orientation. The Center’s programs are not just for those who wish to learn about riding horses but also for those who just love horses and find riding them an excellent way to commune with nature while getting the marvelous countryside air through the majestic Minho regions.
Food & Accommodation
Local and foreign guests get billeted in a rural hotel, like the Casa Paz do Outer with typical Minho comforts and a provincial kitchen. The hotel is situated 8 km from the center’s riding stables.
Many of the quaint provincial hotels have limited facilities for a few guests. It offers two twin bedroom accommodation, another two double bedrooms and one suite, with private baths each. They all have the basic hotel amenities except air conditioning. It has a pool, laundry and babysitting services.
Guests are treated to a daily breakfast made from its rural kitchen. Lunch is served picnic style at various spots along the program’s riding trail as guests would already be in the great outdoors on horseback. Then, when they end the day’s ride, they get treated to a local restaurant that features countryside delicacies with the Portuguese cooking flare.
