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Silves Food Tour
Orange Picking in Silves
Citrus Picking in Silves
Small Group Experience

Half-Day-Orange Picking &Jam Cooking/Lunch with the Orange Farmer

By Algarve Food Experience
Price is €100 per adult
Features
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

It's ideal for countryside lovers who enjoy outdoors activities and support sustainable organic agriculture and for those who enjoy discovering local communities anf their lifestyle.
Families with kids and children are welcome.
This half-day day tour will introduce you to the fascinating history of Silves and its citrus cultivation, immersed in rural Algarve.
We start the tour in the morning at pick up point at Silves municipal market. We will then pick up the car and move to the final location, an organic orange farm where a passionate farmer will describe the different varieties of citrus and production techniques, as well as various tips from irrigation to collection. You will pick the fruit yourself and taste a fresh orange juice inside the farmer's house, kindly opening its door for an amazing traditional lunch. After picking, we will prepare a delicious orange jams with the farmer for you to take away and enjoy for next days you are going to spend in Algarve!

Activity location

  • Mercado Municipal de Silves
    • 8300-110, Silves, Portugal

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 5HM5+X6 Silves
    • Silves, Faro District, Portugal

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Half-Day-Orange Picking &Jam Cooking/Lunch with the Orange Farmer
  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h4h
  • English
Starting time: 10:00
Price details
€100.00 x 4 Adults€400.00

Total
Price is €400.00

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedSnacks
  • What's includedWhat's includedLunch
  • What's includedWhat's includedCoffee and/or Tea
  • What's includedWhat's includedAlcoholic Drinks
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedPrivate transport

Know before you book

  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

Mercado Municipal de Silves
  • 30m
We visit the market and take some fruit and vegetables with us for our lunch at the farm
Odelouca
  • 30m
You will meet a passionate farming couple in their family home dating back to the early 1900s, to Grandma Gloria's time. The house has been wisely recuperated keeping the charm of a typical Algarvian country house. Geese and ducks happily caw around the pond and welcome you!
Odelouca
  • 1h 15m
We will pick ourselves oranges at the farm and then prepare an amazing orange jams in the farmer's house for you to take away.
Odelouca
  • 1h
Everyone to the table! Expect traditional recipes, fresh products from the vegetable garden and typical Algarvian cakes; every dish is cooked and served with lots of love!Vegan and Vegetarian are welcome!

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESMercado Municipal de Silves
    • 8300-110, Silves, Portugal

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE5HM5+X6 Silves
    • Silves, Faro District, Portugal

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