Walking to Porto from Santiago

[Steven Baggs]

Having walked the Camino from St Jean in September I am interested in picking up where I left off in Santiago next year and walking south to Porto. I have read about the Caminho Fatima and wonder if anyone knows how well the route is marked (with blue arrows) on the Spanish side from Santiago?
The Caminho Fatima web site doesn't give much information and their guide to walking it isn't yet available from Santiago to the Portuguese border. I understand that simply following the camino arrows in reverse can be problematic.
Any advise would be appreciated.

 

[Miroslaw]

Having walked the Camino from St Jean in September I am interested in picking up where I left off in Santiago next year and walking south to Porto. I have read about the Caminho Fatima and wonder if anyone knows how well the route is marked (with blue arrows) on the Spanish side from Santiago?
The Caminho Fatima web site doesn't give much information and their guide to walking it isn't yet available from Santiago to the Portuguese border. I understand that simply following the camino arrows in reverse can be problematic.
Any advise would be appreciated.

You will have blue arrows pointing the right way often enough. Blue arrows will
separate from yellow arrows in town called Ansiao. In places where there will be no blue arrows backtracking the yellow arrows will be neccesary. This might be slight chalenge.
You could consider using my open source map which can be downloaded at caminhomap.com as a help in backtracking yellow arrows.
Best Regards and Bom Caminho

 

[Former member 22438]

You will have blue arrows pointing the right way often enough. Blue arrows will
separate from yellow arrows in town called Ansiao. In places where there will be no blue arrows backtracking the yellow arrows will be neccesary. This might be slight chalenge.
You could consider using my open source map which can be downloaded at caminhomap.com as a help in backtracking yellow arrows.
Best Regards and Bom Caminho

If you walk from Santiago to Porto follow the blue waymarkers. From Santiago to Tui it is well waymarked.
Ansião is past Porto direction Lisbon or Fátima so this info is not relevant if you end up in Porto.
Mind that among the Portuguese the caminho to Santiago is not the first thing they think about. The caminho de Fátima is their most important caminho.
Portuguese walk the most straight line to Fátima so you will see lots of pilgrims walking on trainers and carrying a light daypack following the main roads on the hard shoulder instead of the paths the caminho to Santiago is leading to. . Regulairy happen accidents with victims involved . Portuguese are very nice people but once behind the steeringwheel of their cars, they drive like devils.So walking on the hardshoulder of especially the N routes is very dangerous.

 

[C clearly]

Good advice, but I'll close the thread because it is an old one.