With dramatic jaw-dropping cliffs, smooth white sands, and crystal clear blue water, Sagres is the perfect place for a day of relaxation and a surfer’s paradise. More adventurous sorts head to one of the area’s surf shops, where you can rent a bike, surf equipment, kayak, or bodyboard. If you want to go all out, ask about the international surf school camp (www.sagres-surfcamp.com) where you eat, drink, and sleep surfing for a week—really though, you eat with fellow surfers, sleep in hostel-like accommodations, and surf until your toes fall off.
Surf Planet (Estrada Nacional, 268 }282 624815; www.surfplanet.pt) With beachwear galore, wetsuits, body boards, swimming fins, kayaks, surfboards, skim boards, and more, Surf Planet is a one-stop shop for everything you need to get ocean bound. Ask about their surf lessons and one-week surf camp, where beginnings to intermediate surfers can eat, drink, and sleep (literally, you sleep in a hostel-like guest house with other surfers) waves all week.