We went OFFROAD on SAND in PORTUGAL for the first time (pushing our new TD5INSIDE turbo+remap)

[@antonioblanco2217]

These are cork oaks. The bark is used for multiple applications, including wine bottles cork taps. Morocco, Portugal and Spain have the biggest plantations in the world.

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks for sharing this info :)

[@simoncbroadley9577]

play your video back at 9 mins 46 sec , Its looks like dad is standing on son shoulders to pop roof tent lol , Great video ,

[@offtrackfamily]

Haha ;)

[@SalomaoFresco]

Nice footage. Also, the bark from those trees is called 'cortiça', the trees are called 'sobreiros'. The cork is used on many applications l, the most commonly known is the wine bottle cork, but in the latest years many other uses have been found, namely insolation on homes and even in the aerospace industry. Welcome to Portugal, enjoy your stay. There are many beautiful places to visit and some offroad tracks to explore.

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks for sharing all this info!

[@MaTribuTrotter]

Yes, nous sommes passé par les même endroit j'ai l'impression ! Il a l'air de bien passé le def ! Manque un peu de plage 😏 nous nous somme bien planté nous 😅

[@offtrackfamily]

Yes il va bien le Def! Mais on s est quand même planté après. Aaaah la plage on en a fait pas mal durant le road trip mais on garde certains moments que pour nous ;)

[@STYLEHUAHINONAIR]

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[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks you!

[@franciscocunhaetavora9132]

Like many have commented, the trees with the bark removed are Cork Oaks. The bark of the Cork Oak is actually cork. After a cork oak is planted, the first cork is ready to harvest after about 7 years. The first harvest is poor quality. After that, the cork can be harvested once every 5 years.

[@offtrackfamily]

thanks for your explanation

[@ItalianFamilyOverland]

hi guys we have been following you for a while and we like your way of seeing the world, we are also in Portugal so if you are still here we could meet and spend a day together 👌

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks for your message! We are back home with back to work & back to school routines 😉

[@phorgery]

I think those were cork trees. Most of the world's wine corks are produced in Portugal.

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks for sharing this ☺

[@luisguerreiro1806]

They are de barked every 9 years, numbers you see painted indicate the year was last done. My family owns a few them, as a kid I had to paint them with the number. 😁

[@Adibo33]

Les arbres taillés sont des chênes Liège. En pelant l'écorce on récupère le liège ;)

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks for also adding all this info Luis :)

[@IntrepidYouTuber]

Very interesting video, I did not think Portugal had such dry areas. What a great trip and experience. Good man for checking vehicle health, I would love to see a detailed video of flushing the diesel filter in the outdoors if you ever have the opportunity to video that.

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks for your message! I have added your request to the list 🙂

[@neanderthaloutdoors9202]

Looks very much like driving through the Australian outback, beautiful.

[@offtrackfamily]

Certain parts of the trail were very similar to what we saw in Australia:)

[@craiggillphotography8030]

Great to see u have fun in the sand!!

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks!

[@tipperarymick5337]

Portugal has a lot of those soft loose sand tracks, very easy to get stuck!

[@offtrackfamily]

We got stuck the next day ;)

[@SuperNofound]

Good, the trees cut down in the middle are for cork, and the year in which they were removed is marked. I would like to ask if they paid for the license in Portugal to be able to fish on the coast, which I doubt you did. I just feel stupid because I in Portugal pay everything properly and the foreigner comes here and does not pay or I suppose. thanks for the clarification.

[@offtrackfamily]

Yes cork trees was explained 👍. Are you talking about the fishing licence for non residents at about 15 euros for a week. There are fishing licences in Switzerland too, one for rivers and another one for lakes.

[@SuperNofound]

@@offtrackfamily More or less, you would have to be requested at the ICNF offices for non-residents, did you make that request? Yes, it is valid for 7 days or 30 days, depending on what you request. Just a comment, because in Portugal everything has to be paid for, and normally people from abroad forget to do it, and it is a very clear justification to give to the police.

[@jjsoledad8553]

Boa Viagem! I love the song at the end of the video - Dreamers Of The Shore

[@offtrackfamily]

Haha thanks!

[@cristomario9118]

Awesome video - thanks for sharing (all those zanzare [mosquitoes]), wow, hopefully you have some repellent. Take care of yourselves and enjoy! love from Florence.

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks for your message!

[@slowshop]

It sounds amazing! Ours is powered by a 5l V8 but the sound of a turbo diesel is hard to beat.

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks :)

[@DonegalOverlanding]

Another great video guys. Cant wait to get to Portugal ourselves, it looks beautiful.

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks! It was short but great :)

[@ocervin]

Thanks for great and pleasant video! As always! I'm planning family trip to same area in Portugal in 2022. Is it OK to free camp in Portugal, along the cost (as you did here in video)? Or was it a "lucky shot" with hoping no-one would come and hand over a fine? :-) I would love to go there, but afraid someone would come in the middle of the night and demand us to leave, with packing and family... omg... haha

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks! We did encounter any problem on that side. I must admit we didn't know the new rule and were informed only on the spot via social media. For sure many surfers were camping near some of the beaches we passed by but no idea how they manage this interdiction.

[@MiguelSantos-kv1nm]

Hi can you tell me what set of springs do you use? And tyres size by the way? Welcome to Portugal

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks! 285 75 r16 and King springs

[@tomjet1000]

Hi there, have you worked on your exhaust? Doesn't sound like a Diesel anymore 😉👍

[@offtrackfamily]

Yes ;)

[@laurentbideau2605]

Attention à la surchauffe moteur avec une remap et un snorkel. Je ne sais plus si vous avez changé l’intercooler

[@offtrackfamily]

Aucun soucis de surchauffe, nous avons fait le nécessaire il y a plusieurs années de cela. Une vidéo spécifique traite de ce sujet et également une autre pour de l'arrivée d'air :)

[@grahamwest1079]

Good job you have the nuggetstuff filter ha ha

[@offtrackfamily]

Haha absolutely true!

[@mattsonic8979]

Bonjour, Vidéo sympathique !

[@offtrackfamily]

Merci pour le message!

[@tomas2871]

bonjour la vidéo est très bonne. J'ai aussi fait cette piste plusieurs fois, c'est spectaculaire... le chêne-liège est ainsi nettoyé par extraction du liège. le parc des animaux passés est le Badoca Safari Park et vaut bien la visite.

[@offtrackfamily]

Merci pour le message et toutes ces infos :)

[@vic6820]

Beautiful! Where does that track start?

[@offtrackfamily]

Near Comporta soit Lisbon.

[@vic6820]

@@offtrackfamily Thank you 👍

[@MrSLemm]

Ce sont des chênes liège pour faire entre autre les bouchons de bouteilles de vins ou les isolations de liège pour les murs etc etc ... l’écorce repousse pas d’inquiétude les Romain utilisaient déjà cette technique.

[@offtrackfamily]

Merci pour votre message!

[@calsurflance5598]

Love your adventure videos. 👍Thanks for a look at part of the world I probably will never see. Is it common to have such poor quality fuel in Western Europe? It appears you are always having to deal with contaminated fuel.🧐

[@ocervin]

Agree - nice videos and lovely trips. I can answer on the fuel - NO! Fuel in all Europe is absolute top notch class. This must be from the car, or from some other reason.

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks! Only happened twice over many adventures so I don't think there's so much bad fuel around europe ;)

[@Defender110SLO]

Who needs Africa. Cheers 🍻

[@offtrackfamily]

🙂

[@karlmaier343]

What power numbers (hp/nm) are you running and are you monitoring your egts?

[@offtrackfamily]

We don't have any numbers as we never took a dyno test and no we don't monitor egts :)

[@karlmaier343]

@@offtrackfamily thanks for the info

[@benabu01]

Bonjour bravo pour la video. Nous nous rendons en famille au Portugal cet été pour un trip similaire, 4x4 presque identique mais pas le meme ;-). Pourriez-vous me partager votre trace ou quelques points de passage. Ca me ferait super plaisir. J'ai un peu de mal à composer l'itineraire. Grand merci. Famille Suisse mais habitant en Belgique ;-)

[@offtrackfamily]

Merci pour le message! Nous gardons pas de traces, nous n avions pas organisé à l avance et pris des traces sur wikiloc sur le moment. Il me semble que celle du Portugal allait de Comporta au sud de Lisbonne jusqu'à Sagres. Mais nous n avions pas tout fait jusqu au sud. Profitez bien de vos vacances!

[@discoveryadventures2296]

Cork trees

[@offtrackfamily]

👍

[@tommcl8548]

👍:-)

[@offtrackfamily]

Thanks!

[@barned]

I hate sand, you get stuck so easy.

[@offtrackfamily]

We had fun ;)

[@MaTribuTrotter]

I'm ok! WE was stuck 😁🎥