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back down. If I had it all to do again (and I would) I bottom where a long dark dank underground grotto
would enter at our exit point, or better yet fork over with dead-end passageways and waterfall-drenched
a few extra euros for a bus tour up to the Palace. exits.
After a relaxing lunch that included a flight of The whole set-up was used to test initiates for a
wine and plate of sardines, we made our way to the secret society who were accepted after making the
slightly less taxing Quinta da Regaleira, a World descent in the dark and finding the correct. exit.
Heritage site. The lavish ornate Gothic mansion and Mary and I would have flunked out. In broad
lush gardens include assorted mysterious hidden daylight, we managed to take a wrong turn and
tunnels and structures used in secretive religious became separated from our companions. Our
rituals. The strangest was the Initiation Well with anxious guide found us a hundred yards away from
stone moss-cover walls and steps winding to the the winner’s exit.

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