Our friend Philip urged us to go see the Pulo do Lobo. He was right. It is magnificent. The waterfall is located north of Mértola, in the Lower Alentejo. Pulo the Lobo means “wolf’s leap”. And when you stand there, you realise the wolf has to be pretty desperate to jump this fierce current.
Pulo do Lobo is the most dramatic stretch of the Guadiana , where the “river boils between harsh walls, the rushing of water, hit, flow and wind gnawing a millimetre per century per millennium, a nothing in eternity” wrote José Saramago, one of Portugal’s most famous writers (source).
We were also impressed by the boardwalks like we saw in Alvor, designed to enable tourism without damaging nature.