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Event Recap: Travel Massive Lisbon with Secret City Trails

The Lisbon Travel Massive chapter hosted a meet-up to uncover the secrets of the Portuguese capital with Secret City Trails.

This event recap was written by Sandra Henriques – Lisbon chapter leader, and travel blogger and freelance writer. 

Secret City Trails‘ founders Kristina and Wendy wanted to create a new and unique way for locals and tourists to explore the city. They created city discovery games that include snippets of History and local businesses recommendations every time you unlock a clue.

Beyond Lisbon, Secret City Trails is also available in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Cologne, Geneva, Porto, Rotterdam, San Sebastian, and Vienna. If you have an idea for a game in your city, get in touch! Kristina and Wendy will be more than happy to hear about it.

Thanks to Secret City Trails for hosting a fun event for our community 🙌

Discovering Lisbon, one clue at a time

We split into two teams of 3, each with two “veterans” and one newbie; founder Kristina was monitoring the game remotely and met us for feedback and networking at the final stop.

Only the starting and finishing points weren’t a secret: We met by the statue of the poet Camões at Largo Camões, Lisbon’s classic meeting point. A series of 8 clues we had to unveil would lead us to our final spot, Praça do Príncipe Real.

It was a healthy competition and a very active event, with both teams keeping track of one another (and teasing) over text messaging and social media.

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Team One (Marina , João  and Wendy) won, finishing the challenge in a record time of just 59 minutes! For now, they’re one of the top 3 teams on the Secret City Trails leaderboard. Team Two (myself, Bernardo and Alexandra) gracefully came in second place.

The real reward, however, happened when we sat together at the end of the game, to share ideas and suggestions about the games, and fostered future partnerships. Stay tuned, there might be new Lisbon games coming out by the hands of your fellow Travel Massive members!

A HUGE thank you to Secret City Trails’ co-founder Kristina for supporting the Lisbon Chapter and for being so helpful before, during, and after the game!

Congrats to the winning team:

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Join the Travel Massive Lisbon chapter to meet like-minded tourism people and attend future events.


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