Has anyone walked the Camino Lebaniego recently?

[The Kolbist]

Hi,

We will be walking the Del Norte in a few weeks and we do plan to veer off to Camino Lebaniego up to Santo Toribio. Based on my current research, there's not a lot of accomodations that are currently open. Has anyone recently walked from San Vicente de la Barquera to Potes? How was your experience in terms of accommodation? Any help is highly appreciated.

The Kolbist

 

[gerardcarey]

Efren Gonzalez, the accomplished vlogger, is currently heading for SDC after which he intends to walk (and vlog) the Lebaniego.
I am a subscriber and am keenly awaiting his utube postings as I intend to walk it 2022.
Regards
Gerard

 

[The Kolbist]

yes but i hope his vlogs about Lebaniego comes out before we start our own

 

[peregrina2000]

I think @LesBrass is the forum member with the most recent contacts. She was unable to walk the route continuously but did take many day hikes in the area and posted about it.

If you search for lebaniego posted by member LesBrass, you’ll find lots. Here is one.

https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/camino-lebaniego-my-little-video.68129/

 

[Tom Cartwright]

Hi,

We will be walking the Del Norte in a few weeks and we do plan to veer off to Camino Lebaniego up to Santo Toribio. Based on my current research, there's not a lot of accomodations that are currently open. Has anyone recently walked from San Vicente de la Barquera to Potes? How was your experience in terms of accommodation? Any help is highly appreciated.

The Kolbist

I would only offer it is a beautiful Camino, but completed it a few years ago before COVID.

 

[Tincatinker]

A quick flick across Gronze and Berking.con seems to suggest plenty of accommodations but not necessarily at Pilgrim prices. Some of the Pilgrim Albergues appear to be open, indeed there appears to be much more Pilgrim oriented accommodations since I walked it in the 1990's. It was, and is, a beautiful walk and San Toribio one of those special places. The veil is a little thinner there.

You say you're planning for in a "few weeks time". Stuff shuts down fairly early in the Picos de Europa, snow, big snow is not uncommon by late October. The ski season doesn't really kick-off 'till December. A lot of the local hospitality trade takes it break in October (and heads south for some late sun). You might be looking at that gap.

 

[The Kolbist]

thanks fellas. if the stars align, we will be veering off from San Vicente towards Lebaniego on the 2nd week of Sept. Yes, i see hotels but either they are temporarily closed or they are just full so we might do a roper-dope in accommodation meaning we stay in the place we stayed the night before and take a taxi the next day back to where we stopped the previous day.

 

[Tincatinker]

It would be worth the effort to map your progress and try contacting accommodations direct. "Full" on Berking.con just means that their allocated rooms are all booked, "temporarily closed" just means Berking have no offering at all. The first time I walked in the Picos I just asked in the bars "donde puedo encontrar una cama?" It worked most times, though the night in a hayloft above the cattle-byre will stay locked into my olfactory memory forever. Since the 1970's the tourism industry in the Picos has expanded enormously.

I don't think you'll have all that much trouble finding a bed and you could weigh the price of your taxi ride off against the accommodation cost.

Buen camino, and take a sip from the Fuente De for me.

PS. If you find yourselves in Potes at the time of the Fiesta del Orujo allow an extra day, or two, in your itinerary

 

[The Kolbist]

Thanks @Tincatinker

 

[NadineK]

Querien just started this route very recently! (Possibly yesterday or today). She’s posting on Instagram, I’m hoping she doesn’t mind that I share her page!

Querien Mangel (@whenawayfarer) • Instagram photos and videos

569 Followers, 312 Following, 767 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Querien Mangel (@whenawayfarer)

instagram.com

 

[NadineK]

Querien just started this route very recently! (Possibly yesterday or today). She’s posting on Instagram, I’m hoping she doesn’t mind that I share her page!

Querien Mangel (@whenawayfarer) • Instagram photos and videos

569 Followers, 312 Following, 767 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Querien Mangel (@whenawayfarer)

instagram.com

I’m not sure that this link worked, but you can search ‘whenawayfarer’ and you should find her profile!

 

[The Kolbist]

I’m not sure that this link worked, but you can search ‘whenawayfarer’ and you should find her profile!

unfortunately, you need an account to access instagram. thanks Nadine..