Camino Santiago/Fatima - Santiago to Porto

[WillyBeaver]

I wanted to make a post to discuss traveling the Camino Portugese in reverse, from Santiago to Porto which i recently completed, as there was very little information that I found in person or online about wether its do-able, and it is 100% doable. You just follow the exact same route as the traditional Camino but using BLUE arrows heading to Fatima instead which will take you all the way to porto. i cannot comment on how it goes from Porto to Lisbon but I've heard its the same you just follow the blue arrows. Its a more isolated route and you wont be walking along with anyone else (I met no one else doing the same route at the same time), but it is beauitful and glorious and although slightly less well signposted feels like a big adventure and that you are doing something unique while traveling a very well traveled path. Plus you still get to have chats with Pilgrims coming the opposite way. If you want to do it fear not you can!

 

[dougfitz]

I wanted to make a post to discuss traveling the Camino Portugese in reverse, from Santiago to Porto which i recently completed, as there was very little information that I found in person or online about wether its do-able, and it is 100% doable. You just follow the exact same route as the traditional Camino but uI sing BLUE arrows heading to Fatima instead which will take you all the way to porto. i cannot comment on how it goes from Porto to Lisbon but I've heard its the same you just follow the blue arrows. Its a more isolated route and you wont be walking along with anyone else (I met no one else doing the same route at the same time), but it is beauitful and glorious and although slightly less well signposted feels like a big adventure and that you are doing something unique while traveling a very well traveled path. Plus you still get to have chats with Pilgrims coming the opposite way. If you want to do it fear not you can!

From Porto south things get a little more complicated. The Caminho do Norte (Valenca to Fatima) and the CP largely coincide from what I can tell until Anziao, other than that you will not have the yellow arrows of the CP facing you. They will deviate a little in places like Coimbra, but don't seem to once out of the bigger towns. After Anziao, the Caminho do Norte route goes down to Fatima and the CP (in reverse) goes down to Tomar and then Santarem. After Santarem, you will be walking in reverse on both the Caminho do Teo/Camino Portuguese until Lisboa, and neither blue nor yellow waymarks will face you.