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Our kitesurfing and windsurfing school located on the best place in Algarve, you can find different conditions for wave kitesurf raiding and perfect shallow lagoon with the flat water.%2C200&ssl=1We also do rent kite surfing equipment, one of the best kitesurfing brands in kite industry Liquid Force and kite boards Nobile.Algarve not leave you indifferent to the Portuguese culture and power of the ocean.We are training in shallow lagoon and teaching there kitesurf more than 10 years on this aria and know about wind forecast and correct directions of the wind and whether conditions, with our experience you will be on the top.We have the best professional and international instructors.In all the years of training we don`t have a traumatic event.We have developed a special training program in Portugal for children.%2C200&ssl=1also you can learn with us in Lagos something advance: jumps, beck rolls, front rolls, first kite loops, wave riding and from this year we start teaching riding on the foil board.And if you need transfer to the lagoon were we are located, from your place its not the problem, we can pick you up in 10km area from Lagos.

Love the bottom photo!!!! Lady on the right makes it look like the place is good enough to read a book!!!!!!

Bahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Good spread

I went to Lagos in 2016. Had one windy day out of 7. So I drove to Rio de Alvor and hired gear for 80 EUR to get my kiting fix. It was OK. Large flatwater lagoon in the river mouth with probably 30-40 other kiters, many of them kooks. Wasn't too crowded though. There were kiters on the beach where there were small waves but the wind was offshore and I didn't want to risk it with not-my-gear.

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Phoney said..
I went to Lagos in 2016. Had one windy day out of 7. So I drove to Rio de Alvor and hired gear for 80 EUR to get my kiting fix. It was OK. Large flatwater lagoon in the river mouth with probably 30-40 other kiters, many of them kooks. Wasn't too crowded though. There were kiters on the beach where there were small waves but the wind was offshore and I didn't want to risk it with not-my-gear.

What time of the year did you go? Is there a better time of the year than others?

The photos the OP has posted don't look great if you are looking for wind.

Yeh I was sitting back the other day and I thought "wouldn't mind going to Portugal to kite".

Yeh... nah.

I dragged three kids across the world to kite Portugal with the wife last month. I got 3 sessions of gusty 30knot slop in 14 days. The wife got nothing. The air bnb guy lied about the distance to the beach and I had to launch a case against the hire car company for charging for services not provided.
So, um, Portugal. The toll roads are nice and expensive.

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FormulaNova said..

What time of the year did you go? Is there a better time of the year than others?

Last week of July. No idea.

If you want a better guarantee of wind, go to Tarifa in Spain.

If you want a chilled holiday in a beautiful spot with a chance of getting a kite in, go to Algarve as per the OP. Though I didn't and wouldn't bother lugging a kite all the way from Oz. Better off renting.