Costal Route

[Petr Rade]

Hello,
I'm planning Camino Portugeese, starting in Porto. Have 11 days to reach Santiago and would appreciate any suggestion for best coastal route?
Thank you for any answer

 

[Former member 22438]

Hello,
I'm planning Camino Portugeese, starting in Porto. Have 11 days to reach Santiago and would appreciate any suggestion for best coastal route?
Thank you for any answer

Welcome on the forum.
Follow the river Douro out of Porto to keep it at your left, northwards.
As soon as you arrive at the ocean ,keep it at the left all the time as far as Vigo and head from there to Redondela on the central route and follow the yellow waymarkers all away to Santiago. Easy as that . .
11 days is doable but you have to figure out where you should stay every night
On this forum you'll find lots of info about this matter.read back for a while.
Bom caminho

 

[Dutch]

Do you really want the whole (quiet) coastal route? Or just a little bit and than continue on the central route earlier on than Albertinho suggests? Compared to the central route, where most pilgrims walk, the whole coastal route is a very solitary walk.

When are you walking?

 

[Former member 22438]

Do you really want the whole (quiet) coastal route? Or just a little bit and than continue on the central route earlier on than Albertinho suggests? Compared to the central route, where most pilgrims walk, the whole coastal route is a very solitary walk.

When are you walking?

Indeed what Dutch writes
First opportunity to leave the coastal from Porto is in Vila do Conde direction São Pedro de Rates to connect to the central route.

In Caminha is the second opportunity to reach Valença do Minho for the central route and the third one is walk on as suggested to Vigo and hit the central at Redondela.

On the central route you will meet more other pilgrims, all heading for Santiago.
A lot of them start in Valença or Tui for about the last 100 kms to obtain a Compostela certificate.

 

[Petr Rade]

Do you really want the whole (quiet) coastal route? Or just a little bit and than continue on the central route earlier on than Albertinho suggests? Compared to the central route, where most pilgrims walk, the whole coastal route is a very solitary walk.

When are you walking?

Hello Dutch,
Thanks for the quick reply!! I'm more than fine to do the coastal bit in solitude, kind of what I need at the moment..
I went through the maps a lot and joining the central one after Redondela seems to suit me the best.
At the end I can change it on the way as have plenty of time.
I'm going this Friday though..
Thank you once again..

 

[Petr Rade]

Indeed what Dutch writes
First opportunity to leave the coastal from Porto is in Vila do Conde direction São Pedro de Rates to connect to the central route.

In Caminha is the second opportunity to reach Valença do Minho for the central route and the third one is walk on as suggested to Vigo and hit the central at Redondela.

On the central route you will meet more other pilgrims, all heading for Santiago.
A lot of them start in Valença or Tui for about the last 100 kms to obtain a Compostela certificate.

Hello Albertino,
Thank you very much for the detailed options, loads of help..
I will connect from coast after Redondela then..
Thank you!!

 

[fraluchi]

You'll find descriptions and maps of the Coastal Route (Costa Atlantica) on the following site: www.caminador.es and www.caminador.es/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/links.costa-atlantica
and from there each lap from Porto to Redondela.
Ultreya!

 

[KylieM]

Do you really want the whole (quiet) coastal route? Or just a little bit and than continue on the central route earlier on than Albertinho suggests? Compared to the central route, where most pilgrims walk, the whole coastal route is a very solitary walk.

When are you walking?

This is a good point.... Now I'm doubting the Coastal route...

 

[Former member 22438]

This is a good point.... Now I'm doubting the Coastal route...

You'll miss beautiful places like Viana do Castelo, Caminha, a Guarda, Oia , Baiona ( very beautiful) Vigo....

 

[Utgaard]

Crossing the Minho from Valenca to Tui isn't that bad...

Coming into Tui

• Utgaard
• May 28, 2015
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[Dutch]

Hahhaha @Albertinho , your really trying to sell it

@Utgaard great pic.
I Loved the wonderfull views from Valenca to Tui and back. Fantastic way of crossing borders.

 

[Former member 22438]

Hahhaha @Albertinho , your really trying to sell it

@Utgaard great pic.
I Loved the wonderfull views from Valenca to Tui and back. Fantastic way of crossing borders.

It was not that bad. Every 10 km or so you pass a beautiful village or small town. You are not allways walking close to the seaside. Sometimes you even do not see it.
I agree it is more quiet and you do not meet a lot of other peregrino's but that did not bother us.we had hilarious meetings with local people.

A man on a bike just before Caminha who approached us for a special stamp on the credential .Than he asked. Do you take the ferry between Caminha and A Guarda ? Yes.." It does not sail" he said while we were expecting it was. But my friend Mario has a fisherman's boat and he sails you to the other side of the river ..5€ per person...he had the solution .
We did not trust it on first sight but after some research the ferryboat was not sailing indeed so we used Mario's services and had a good laugh about it after all.

 

[amancio]

It must feel like smuggling cigarettes between Portugal and Spain! Indeed, it seems to be quite easy to find somebody willing to help you cross the river (with some money involved, fair enough!)

I have to follow that way one day, Portugal is a special place