Transport
The guide and driver were excellent. The pick up and drop off and text reminders worked very well. Fatima especially for us as Catholics was beautiful. The only negative was the first stop at a factory /shop of icons/etc. - this felt rather commercialised and unnecessary. If that had been left out we would have had more time in Fatima.
This full day tour takes you on a pilgrimage all of your own. You'll journey from Albufeira early in the morning to cross the Portuguese hinterlands towards ‘the Shrine of the World', which attracts about four million pilgrims every year – the one and only Fatima.
Your destination for the day will be one of Europe's most important Marian shrines, Fatima. But first, you'll get some free time to explore the houses where the three little shepherds who saw Our Lady of Fatima were born in the hamlet of Aljustrel.
Then you'll arrive into Fatima shortly after, where you'll firstly have time to do some shopping and have lunch. Now it's the moment you've been waiting for - you'll visit the Sanctuary of Fatima, including the basilica, Chapel of the Apparitions and the Basilica of the Holy Trinity, known for its innovative architecture, where you'll have the chance to attend Mass.