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Fóia is the highest mountain around and when you're in Monchique it is only a short drive up the road.
I'm not going to show you the car park or the radar station or the restaurant and souvenir shop (favoured by coach trips) and this time, you don't get to see the view. You can find that here.
The biggest change that I noticed was that someone must have started piling up the stones and it has become a thing:

I would call them Steinmandl, the Portuguese say moledros.
There are big ones and very tiny ones and there are not many stones left unused:

These are the very small ones that we built after climbing up this:

While the kid was okay with getting assistance when scrambling up the rocks, he desperately wanted to assemble his own tower of stones. Which was just a little too difficult. You can imagine the cries of despair and tears of frustration.
There is not much vegetation up there, but the thistles are quite pretty:


I'm not going to show you the car park or the radar station or the restaurant and souvenir shop (favoured by coach trips) and this time, you don't get to see the view. You can find that here.
The biggest change that I noticed was that someone must have started piling up the stones and it has become a thing:

I would call them Steinmandl, the Portuguese say moledros.
There are big ones and very tiny ones and there are not many stones left unused:

These are the very small ones that we built after climbing up this:

While the kid was okay with getting assistance when scrambling up the rocks, he desperately wanted to assemble his own tower of stones. Which was just a little too difficult. You can imagine the cries of despair and tears of frustration.
There is not much vegetation up there, but the thistles are quite pretty:

