Bus / Accessing the Camp

There is a bus from Braga to Montalegre stopping in Venda Novas, 4 kms away from Salto and 8 kms away from the gathering. You can check timetables in http://www.transdev.pt/bdtweb/line.php?operator=3&line=4.

Road to parking is good enough to arrive by autovan.


From the parking to the gathering there are 2 kms of light steep.


We'll publish the easiest way to arrive with public transport from Barcelona and Madrid when we have the information.

Peace & Light.

Healing

One of the areas in the gathering will be a natural healing center, where we hope several sisters and brothers who will be working with different massage techniques, reiki, prananadi...

We will need the maximum quantity of different plants for the healing tea space and spices for the kitchen, please bring all you can. Specially we need thyme, oregano and sea salt.

Love and light.

Information Leafleft About Rainbow Gatherings

Hi there, here you can find an information book about how to behave in a Rainbow Gathering. Right now it's only in Spanish and Portuguese, but we are working to have it translated to several other languages. You can also find a quite complete guide (in english) here, thought it's not updated and it refers mainly to the gatherings in EEUU.

Love and Light.

• Information Leafleft in Spanish
• Information Leafleft in Portuguese

Invitation

THE LOCATION FOR THE GATHERING IS ALREADY CONSENSED!!! HAVE A LOOK AT THE SECTION DATES AND LOCATION TO KNOW WHERE!!!

Dear Rainbow family, brothers and sisters in light and love,

As many of you will already know, in the last European Rainbow Gathering in Finland in 2010, consensus was made for the next European Rainbow Gathering to be held in 2011 in the Iberian Peninsula. We will gather with the joyful intention of joining together the Rainbow Family, calling for world peace, helping each other to reconnect with and heal our own bodies, souls, hearts and minds, our communities, and our mother Earth. We gather to share all our love and light in celebration and harmony, with deep respect for all the beings, animals and plants. We call on our ancestors of the Rainbow Tribe to meet us once more and share their wisdom. We also call on all communities to share their experiences, visions and consciousness, so urgently needed in these times.

With this joyful invitation from our hearts, we wait for you with light and love.

We would like to remind you to bring your personal things that you need for the gathering (water bottle, sleeping bag and insulation mat, warm/rainproof clothes, tent/tarp, spoon, knife, plate/bowl, cup, musical instruments, good vibrations :-)). We respectfully ask that you leave behind electronic devices, drugs, alcohol, chemicals, meat, junk food, and anything that could negatively influence the healthy development of the gathering and our reconnection to ourselves and to mother earth.

We will also need plenty of communal materials. You could help by bringing, among other things:

• Big and very big water containers.
• Ropes and strings.
• Big food containers, made of plastic or lightweight material.
• Wood panels (for signposts and chopping boards).
• Natural medicines for the Healing Centre.
• First aid kits.
• Kitchen utensils (big pots, pans, serving spoons, etc...)
• Acrylic paints and turpentine.
• Especially for the brothers or sisters who are coming in vans, organic food for the family (your expenses will be reimbursed).

You can find a complete list of suggestions of things to bring (that will be updated as needed) in the Communal Materials section. If you are going to bring something, please tell us in advance if possible.

You can find the exact location for the gathering in the Dates And Location section.

We trust that everything will be manifested and that the Great Spirit will bring us all together wherever we are meant to meet. We wait for you with open hearts, with hope, joy, love, peace, harmony and healing.

With love, light and healing to all our brothers and sisters. May we all be happy, free and at peace. Aho

Contact

In case you need to contact us and only in special cases about something you can't find in any of the information sources (have a look at How To Get Up-to-date Information) you can send an email to info@encuentroarcoiriseuropeo2011.org. Have in mind that we are very busy preparing the event and we'll check this email infrequently, so please be compasionate and don't send questions like 'Where is the gathering?' or 'What should i bring?'. These questions will be better answered in the groups and lists mentioned above and some of them in this web, when the right time comes. Thanks.

Communal Material

We are gonna need plenty of communal materials. You could help by bringing:

• Big and very big water containers.
• Ropes and strings.
• Grills, iron poles.
• Tools, hammers, nails.
• Big food containers, made of plastic or lightweight material.
• Wood panels (for signposts and chopping boards).
• Natural medicines for the Healing Centre.
• First aid kits.
• Kitchen utensils (big pots, pans, serving spoons, etc...)
• Acrylic paints and turpentine.
• Paint brushes.
• White vinegar.
• White sheets to make signs.
• Big plastic tarps or fabric coverings.
• Colorful sheets or fabrics.
• Tipis and yurts.
• Mats.
• Magic wands.
• Cotton cloths (for cleaning).
• Permanent marker pens for plastic containers.
• Especially for the brothers or sisters who are coming in vans, organic food for the family (your expenses will be reimbursed).

If you are going to bring communal materials, please tell us in advance if possible.

How to Get Up-to-date Information

There are several ways to follow the news about the gathering up to date. These are the following:

• This web page.

•  A new list group in yahoo. To subscribe, send an email to familiarainbowiberica-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and when you get the confirmation email, you can either press the link in 1) and follow the instructions or just reply it as it is.

• A group in facebook, here.

• Someone also sent us this link, Lightflower Rainbow Forum, have a look to see what's up.

If you find other ways to follow the information, just tell us!!!

Dates and Location

The 2011 European Rainbow Gathering will be held in Iberian Peninsula, between the new moons of July 30th and August 29th. It will be located in Salto, north Portugal, near Galicia. The seed camp is already running, although it officially begins in July 15th (what's the meaning of 'officially', anyway?), so if you wanna go now, your energy will be welcomed.

How to get there:

• If you are coming from the east (Bragança) or from the north (Chaves), once you are in Chaves you have to go direction  Braga along N103 road  as far as Sapiãos, and from there direction Boticas along N311 to Salto. Once in Salto follow the directions to Serra da Maca and then you'll find the signs...

• If your are coming from the south get to Braga, from there direction Chaves along N103 road, to N311 direction Salto. One in Salto follow indications above.

People in Salto are enthusiastic with the gathering, so probably if you arrive in Salto and talk to anybody in the village they will tell u where to go.