Please read each of the sections below carefully. They provide important information about your Operation Wallacea expedition in Portugal. Should you require further assistance please do not hesitate to contact your nearest Operation Wallacea office.
For the expeditions you need to land at Porto Airport (OPO) before 1300hrs on the Monday your expedition starts. You will be met by an Opwall representative at the airport and transferred directly to Tourém where your expedition will start at 1700hrs.
You need to depart from Porto Airport (OPO) after 1600hrs on the Sunday your expedition ends. Your expedition will finish in Peniche at 7am and you will then be transferred back to Porto for your flight.
As part of the internal travel package it is possible to arrange additional nights in Porto before and after your expedition, and the relevant airport transfers. However, this will be at an additional cost – please contact us for more details.
Please ensure when booking your international flights that the cost of your ticket includes hold luggage.
School groups that have chosen a fully inclusive expedition package do not need to book international flights or internal travel. Operation Wallacea will be in contact with the group leader directly and will provide you with a fully inclusive quote for your international flights, internal travel and expedition costs.
Schools also have the option of having Opwall search for the best flight deal for the group and once the school group leader has approved the purchase, the tickets are then bought by Opwall at cost on behalf of the school. A flight booking fee per person is charged for this approach. Details of the flights for the group will be entered onto the portal by the Opwall staff booking the flights.
Alternatively, if the school has reliable travel partners then they can book the flights themselves and just pay Opwall for the expedition and internal travel costs. Under this scenario the group leader needs to enter the flight details through the Opwall portal and email a copy of the itinerary or E-ticket to flights@opwall.com.
We advise citizens of all nationalities to have at least 6 months validity (period before expiry) on their passports at the time of your arrival into Portugal.
UK citizens are currently advised by the FCO that their passport only needs to be valid for the duration of their stay in Portugal. However passport rules are likely to change following BREXIT and so it is prudent to have at least 6 months validity.
If you are a UK, EU, US or Canadian citizen you do not need a visa to enter Portugal. Most other nationalities will need to apply for a visa via their nearest Portuguese embassy. https://www.vistos.mne.pt/en/short-stay-visas-schengen/general-information
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By joining an Operation Wallacea expedition you are contributing directly towards the study and protection of threatened biodiversity, bringing significant financial benefits to small local communities, and working towards protecting valuable carbon stocks from deforestation. We are extremely proud of the impact we and our volunteers have had over the past two decades, creating a significant benefit to the environment.
However, we want to do more. Specifically, we want to make Operation Wallacea completely carbon neutral. As an organisation we offsetting our own emissions from staff travel (both road and air) and from running our offices. But we also want to encourage all our participants to offset, at the very least, the carbon emissions from their own international flights – and ideally more. To do this we will be supporting the Wallacea Reforestation Initiative in partnership with our sister charity the Wallacea Trust (UK Charity 1078362), and you can read more about this exciting project here that takes a new approach to tropical reforestation that benefits not only climate, but biodiversity and livelihoods too.
Once booked and we’ve received your flight details, you’ll receive an email from us with a recommended donation amount, where we take the exact flight routes you’ve booked on to for your expedition, and run them through the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) carbon calculator. This calculator can be found here and the method used is found here. This gives us the total estimated amout of carbon your flights will emit into the atmosphere, and we assign a value of $10 USD (or £7.69 GBP) per ton of carbon. We only used the flights that we’re aware of, so if you have any more you may want to up the donation!
If you’ve not yet the email and wanted to donate the exact amount, email carbon@opwall.com and we can let you know. If you’re happy with an estimate, a £15 donation will cover the carbon produced by the flights in more than 95% of cases.
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