As you take the 18 tram, you go through Alcântara and Belém until Ajuda neighbourhood. During the way you can get attracted by the palace near to the Hotel Pestana Palace. But keep on sitting on your place in the tram because you will discover a thing that is very special in Lisbon: Ajuda, with its botanical garden full of peacocks and some ducks, amazing blue view, the non-restored Palácio de Belém and the Pátios, that looks like islands after you come listening to crowded people and see buildings that are recent and not beautiful.
The Ajuda botanical garden, or Jardim Botânico da Ajuda, is very close to the Ajuda Cemitery tram stop, the last one of the 18 road.
When I went out of the tram I decided to go to somewhere through Calçada do Galvão. In fact, in the beginning there was not any definition about the first places to visit in Ajuda. Early, and unexpectedly in spite of being equipped with a guide and a notebook, I realize that I was very close to Ajuda Botanical Garden. I do not hesitate: I did enter there paid an entrance ticket for 1 euro.
