Complete guides to every Camino de Santiago route — stages, distances, highlights and insider tips.
The Camino Português coastal vs central question is one of the first decisions you’ll face when planning your walk – and it’s a genuinely interesting one, because these two routes offer meaningfully different experiences rather than just different scenery. Both leave from Porto and rejoin at Redondela in Spain before continuing together to Santiago. What…
The best time to walk the Camino de Santiago depends almost entirely on what kind of experience you’re after. Peak season gives you company, warm weather, and a buzzing pilgrim atmosphere – but also crowds, full albergues, and higher costs. Off-peak gives you solitude, lower prices, and a more introspective walk – but also rain,…
I walked the Camino Português in March 2026, and the honest answer to whether it’s a good time to go is: yes – but it’s a different walk to what you’d get in May or September, and worth knowing what you’re signing up for. Most guides either skip the off-peak months entirely or paint them…
I’ve walked three Camino routes, and the Português is the one I keep coming back to. There’s something about starting in Porto – that extraordinary city of azulejos and port wine and the Douro cutting through it all – and walking north through lush Minho countryside, past Roman bridges and fishing villages, across an international…