Combining Camino del Norte with Camino Lebaniego

[alfi9]

Hi, I started planning process for my Camino del Norte which I want to walk next year May/June. Camino Lebaniego looks really attractive to me - I love mountains but I don't want to resign from an ocean views of Del Norte. Do you have any recommendations how to smartly combine Camino Del Norte and Lebaniego. Is there aby chance that I can come back to del Norte from Santo Toribio de Lebana different route than official Camino? Thanks in advance for support <3

 

[unadara]

Pilgrims I met this week were going to go back from Potes to the Norte. Though they were conflicted due to the beauty of the Mountains. I too love the Coast. But am in the Picos. ️

 

[alfi9]

Pilgrims I met this week were going to go back from Potes to the Norte. Though they were conflicted due to the beauty of the Mountains. I too love the Coast. But am in the Picos. ️

Thanks @unadara Looks that I'm not the only one with the same issue . How is that experience for you there? I find a map (link below) with alternative via Las Arenas and I'm wondering if it make sense to consider it.

 

[alfi9]

Thanks @unadara Looks that I'm not the only one with the same issue . How is that experience for you there? I find a map (link below) with alternative via Las Arenas and I'm wondering if it make sense to consider it.

https://www.caminolebaniego.com/ext/fi/23024/camino-lebaniego-2023.pdf

I forgot about the link

 

[Tom Conklin]

Have you thought about continuing onto the Vadiniense and then back up the San Salvador to the Primitivo or Norte? You'd do one small stage on the French to Leon and then onto the Salvador from there. It's a really great challenge but if you've done the Norte from Irun you've already put in some tough climbing.

 

[alfi9]

@Tom Conklin thanks for this sugestion it make sense! But I can't recognize this San Salvador on the Map. Could you please help me with that?

 

[Tom Conklin]

@Tom Conklin thanks for this sugestion it make sense! But I can't recognize this San Salvador on the Map. Could you please help me with that?

You can see it here underlined in green. Just west of the Vadiniense. Gronze (https://www.gronze.com/camino-salvador) does a good job of covering it as well as the Labiniego and the Vadiniense.

 

[trecile]

@Tom Conklin thanks for this sugestion it make sense! But I can't recognize this San Salvador on the Map. Could you please help me with that?

The San Salvador Camino is not on the map that you linked to. It is a short route from León to Oviedo. I did it in 5 days, but I would take 6 if I did it again.

Camino del Salvador | Camino de Santiago | Gronze.com

El Camino del Salvador o de San Salvador enlaza León con Oviedo, en un recorrido que va de sur a norte cruzando la Cordillera Cantábrica. Esta ruta, montañera y exigente, era ya seguida en la Edad Media por numerosos peregrinos que se desviaban desde el Camino Francés para visitar la catedral de...

www.gronze.com

 

[trecile]

You can see it here underlined in green. Just west of the Vadiniense. Gronze (https://www.gronze.com/camino-salvador) does a good job of covering it as well as the Labiniego and the Vadiniense.

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The map that @Tom Conklin posted doesn't show it, but you can walk to Avilés from Oviedo without backtracking:

 

[Tincatinker]

The Vadiniense also cuts across the Olvidado that would lead you down to La Robla on the Salvador and thence up to Oviedo, skipping the beloved Frances and Leon entirely

 

[alfi9]

Thank you all soo much for help! It's so many great routes to explore there. It's hard to choose one xd I already know that I have to come back to explore this region. And when it comes to my Camino I started to consider to come back by bus from Riano to Alles. Could it be a good idea?

 

[peregrina2000]

A couple of more suggestions of ways to piece together something.

The Ruta de las Peregrinaciones goes from Oviedo to Covadonga, or in your case Covadonga to Oviedo. There are probably tons of trails to take youu over to Covadonga from the Lebaniego.

The Ruta de Cares is a very popular walking route and this thread suggests ways to combine it with the Norte. This would involve going from Puerto de Pandetrave (the end of the Senda da Remoña on the route from Fuente Dé to Portilla de la Reina.

The most direct connection would probably be the Ruta de los Santuarios, which connects the monastery at Liébana to Oviedo via Covadonga. That route would not take you on the Senda da Remoña from Fuente Dé, though, and I thought that was one of the most beautiful camino stretches I’ve ever walked. And I don’t know how the Ruta de los Santuarios fits with the Ruta de las Peregrinaciones.

@davejsy is our resident Picos expert and hopefully he will weigh in here!

Thank you all soo much for help! It's so many great routes to explore there. It's hard to choose one xd I already know that I have to come back to explore this region. And when it comes to my Camino I started to consider to come back by bus from Riano to Alles. Could it be a good idea?

I had to look for Alles on the map. I don’t think it’s on the Norte. Would you plan to continue on from there to get back to the coast and the Norte?

 

[unadara]

As I walked today from Riano to Cremenes (Vadiniese) I was thinking of this thread. It is my firm belief that the Norte should be completed as a whole Camino or a diversion onto the Primitivo, it is only when you get acquainted with the established ways you begin to add on or divert or mix and match as the Experts here do. Enjoy the Norte, enjoy the Coast. Come back for more.

 

[trecile]

I was thinking of this thread. It is my firm belief that the Norte should be completed as a whole Camino or a diversion onto the Primitivo

If you can make an exception for the Primitivo why not other alternatives?

 

[Pilgrim 122]

Hi, I started planning process for my Camino del Norte which I want to walk next year May/June. Camino Lebaniego looks really attractive to me - I love mountains but I don't want to resign from an ocean views of Del Norte. Do you have any recommendations how to smartly combine Camino Del Norte and Lebaniego. Is there aby chance that I can come back to del Norte from Santo Toribio de Lebana different route than official Camino? Thanks in advance for support <3

I took a detour off the camino norte at hortigal and followed the lebaniego, I can't remember where I stayed the first night but then cicera and two nights in Potes. I visited santo Toribio and the amazing museum in Potes. I returned to cicera and then rejoined the norte near Colombres. After Llanes I walked on minor roads up to Covadonga and then onto join the norte again at Villaviciosa. Good luck with your camino.