Survival Skills Course in Portugal in 2020

The first Survival course at Aldeia do Vale is designed to provide all participants with the basic knowledge to be able to cope with a survival situation.

Together with Tom Kaltenbach from Woodland Wilderness School, we aim to enable the participants to survive long enough till they found their way back to civilisation or rescue teams have found them.

We do not teach survival as a struggle against nature – man against the elements – but as learning to become part of nature again in order to survive.  This is achieved through a deep understanding of nature, based on observation, skills and awareness, and finally leads to finding man’ s role in the big circle of life. 

Date: April 30, 2020 – May 3, 2020

Some skills to be acquired in this course:

– Shelter and Insulation
– Finding and cleaning water
– Fire making
– Finding and preparing food
~ Basic wildlife and tracking
– Orientation
– Camouflage and stalking
– Primitive hunting (introduction)

The course includes:
– Hot shower (if necessary as we are on a survival skills course)
-Wifi access (if necessary as we are on a survival skills course)
– Vegetarian Meals
– Possibility of walking on the trail to the waterfall where we can dive and swim, ride on the cliff of lexim or granga dos Serrões
– Lush Western Landscapes
– Warm and family atmosphere
– Fire circles, music, joy and love
– Camping acommodation ( all the equipment is the respnsability of the participants)

 Program:

Day 1
Arrival, setting camp, 
lunch
tracking box
introduction, survival strategy and psycology, 
shelter
clay workshop 
dinner, 
primitive light sources

Day 2
morning sit
breakfast
tracking box
fire making without matches
finding and purifying water
fire building
first aid basics
lunch
tracks and traps
spoon carving
evening sit
dinner
star map

Day 3
morning sit
breakfast
tracking box
basic orientation
survival awareness
primitive hunting
stalking and camouflage
lunch

Day 3 continued
stone tools
cordage
evening sit
dinner
drumstalk

Day 4
morning sit
breakfast
gras mat
wild edibles