Small-Group Tour in Faro Islands

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Explore Ria Formosa with a biologist. Visit Culatra and Deserta Islands, swim, and discover Cabo de Santa Maria. Book your small-group tour now!

Duration: 3 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Animaris Ilha Deserta Boat Tours - Departing from Faro, you will be able to enjoy an interpretative guided tour by marine biologists along Ria Formosa Natural Park while we cruise towards the Islands. We make 2 stops at 2 different islands (Deserta and Culatra)
During this trip, you can expect to see some wildlife such as birds and eventually some…

What's Included

Lifejackets
Marine Biologists (Tour guides)

Additional Information

A great chance to learn more about Ria Formosa and see the barrier islands that surround it. In this tour, a biologist will provide information about the natural park, its fauna and traditions! We head to the islands, where you will be able to see and visit Culatra Island and Deserta Island, as well as the Southernmost point of Portugal mainland - Cabo…

Location

R. da Comunidade Lusíada 4b

Rua da Comunidade Lusíada

At Faro harbour look out for Santa Maria Petisca Ria. You will see many flags nearby - one of our staff members will wait you there.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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X2195kbnicolag

Sep 2, 2024

Dolphins - Really enjoyed this tour seeing the dolphins also saw a shark finn, would highly recommend it's a must when you visit faro

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Faraway21272846990

Apr 22, 2023

Absolutely fantastic! - This is the second time we've been out with Ocean Vibes and although we didn't see any whales, we saw three types of dolphin and a juvenile Loggerhead turtle. As we headed out we saw an Osprey leave the waves having caught a fish. Alfredo and Susannah took us out and when the wind changed we had to head back towards the coast, but then came across a pod of bottle-nose dolphins. The knowledge and passion the marine biologists have at Ocean Vibes makes these trips so worth taking as they're dedicated to preserving and protecting the ocean's cetaceans, and other marine life. Booked again for the Summer already and will go back again next year.

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680jps

Mar 1, 2022

Custom made tour Ria Formosa - We had Pedro as our tourguide, a fantastic and professional guide who know a lot of the flora and fauna in the formossa. We booked the tour a day before departure and had the luck we were the only ones in the tour. So Pedro made the tour custom made. We recommend this tour!

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Roger_w

Oct 14, 2021

Ria Formosa and Island Tour . - Pedro , our guide , was very ecologically and environmentally aware and fully shared his knowledge and expertise with us . Great trip ; highly recommended .

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Kikiv223

May 24, 2021

The best boat tour ever ! - This tour was such an amazing experience. Since there were no other passengers we had like a private tour. Pedro was giving very complete explanation about the sealife around us. We really had a blast! If you don’t like the touristic boats but you want more depth in a tour this is definitely the experience for you.

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Nikobre

Sep 27, 2020

Amazing boat trip in Farò - Amazing boat trip with Pedro. He is very interesting, knows a lot of things about ecosystem, birds, fish and history of Algarve. We had a memorable trip. Good lunch at A Do Juan Restaurant (we recommand the tuna steak which is huge for 1 people and so good). Thanks again Pedro for your kindness, all your explanations and to have found 2 chamaleons on the Desert Island! If you are looking for a nice boat trip, do not hesitate, Pedro is your guy ! (And guide) ;-) Nas próximas Pedro. Monia & Nicolas

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979dmitrys

Sep 19, 2020

Brilliant day out - The best decision we could have made was booking this tour! Pedro was absolutely brilliant, very passionate, and knowledgable about the area. He took his time to talk us through the variety of wildlife on the islands as help us spot some of the species. He was also very flexible with the structure of the tour and was happy to customise it if we would like to stay longer at a particular location. Great to find out about all the research his team is doing! Would definitely come back for the dolphin tour.

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B4806ezlucias

Sep 14, 2020

Wonderful trip ! - It was an incredible tour ! Very interesting information about the nature and the animals. The islands were beautiful and a nice feature to our Portugal vacation. The guide was very kind and had a lot of knowledge about the area. We would definantly do this tour again.

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Theabenatar

Sep 6, 2020

Great trip - Great trip. Saw chameleons on the first island which was a highlight for the whole family. The second island also really interesting to visit. Alfredo gave us lots of information about the Ria Formosa and it's wildlife. Fantastic company, highly recommend.

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Passport155020

Aug 25, 2020

A fantastic day out - Absolutely brilliant, Alfredo our guide had such good knowledge of all the local wildlife, nature and he was really passionate about all of it which made the trip so much more interesting. Not only that, but the family who were on the trip with me were french, so he was giving us the tour fluently in both french AND english, neither of which being his first language! Super impressive. A very fascinating trip and stopping off in both locations was really cool, thoroughly recommended - You wont be disappointed!

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