The Ideal Way To Sightsee In Lisbon: Take The Tram 28, A Tuk Tuk Or A River Cruise

The Lisbon streets are certainly iconic; narrow, winding, slippery as hell and steeper still. One of the best ways to get around, then, is on a tram.

The Tram 28 represents Lisbon’s best sightseeing tour and favourite mode of transport, all rolled into one. A 24 hour ticket for around €6 (cheaper to buy in advance at Metro stations, rather than onboard, incidentally) will allow you access to all public transport in the city, and is the best option for a hop-on, hop-off kinda day riding the 28. Lovely stuff, and a great way to see the capital city’s sights.

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Lisbon’s narrow lanes and steep hills can be tiring to traipse on foot – enter the tuk tuk. Taking a tuk tuk tour is a fun, exciting and exhilarating way to get to know the city. Some companies offering tuk tuk tours include ,Eco Tuk Tours, Local Tuk Tuk, Tuk Tuk Tejo.

Alternatively (or additionally!), to see the city at its most sparkling, you could take a Lisbon river cruise along the famous Tagus, which is another wonderful way to take in the various sights of the city from a unique vantage point.

Starting in Lisbon’s Praça do Comércio, one of Europe’s most beautiful squares (more of that in a minute), the cruise passes under Lisbon’s Ponte suspension bridge, which is the 46th longest of its kind in the world, measuring over 17km in length, before cruising by the architectural wonder of the city’s Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology.

The museum (known as MAAT) ”proposes a new relationship between the river and the visitor through a building whose simultaneous power and sensitivity explores the convergence of contemporary art, architecture, and technology”, according the Arch Daily.

After that, you’ll pass Belem Lighthouse and Tower, and the statue of Christ, modelled on Rio’s famous icon, before returning to central Lisbon. What an adventure!

If all that sightseeing has made your hungry, here’s our roundup of what to eat in Lisbon.

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