- Time of past OR future Camino
- CF in spring and winter, Portugues, Sanabres: 2024
My daughter just has a few weeks off so we flew to Portugal to visit my brother in Braga, then he drove us up to Puebla de Sanabria to walk the Camino Sanabres. Tomorrow we start walking, but I have some concerns.
I have the 2024 Wise Pilgrim guide, Gerald Kelly's new book on VdlP/Sanabres, other recent info on the route, including Gronze and posts here on the forum. People describe the Sanabres as a beautiful camino, but people (and guides) also say that it's been re-routed in a lot of places since the AVE construction and now there are many stretches of walking along the n-525 freeway. We drove that freeway from Portugal, passing turn offs to many Camino towns we will be walking through over the next couple of weeks.
Freeway walking is never very fun, but this one looked particularly grim. Swaths of blackened trees that look like they burned in a big fire, hills that are barren or just covered scrub brush and no shade (and it is unseasonably hot!). A couple of sources suggested that the Sanabres is better now that AVE construction is done. Lots of conflicting route information.
Would love to hear from anyone who has walked C. Sanabres very recently or has current information. Is it still beautiful? Is there still a lot of freeway walking?
This is my daughter's first Camino and I want it to be a nice walk. Thanks!
I have the 2024 Wise Pilgrim guide, Gerald Kelly's new book on VdlP/Sanabres, other recent info on the route, including Gronze and posts here on the forum. People describe the Sanabres as a beautiful camino, but people (and guides) also say that it's been re-routed in a lot of places since the AVE construction and now there are many stretches of walking along the n-525 freeway. We drove that freeway from Portugal, passing turn offs to many Camino towns we will be walking through over the next couple of weeks.
Freeway walking is never very fun, but this one looked particularly grim. Swaths of blackened trees that look like they burned in a big fire, hills that are barren or just covered scrub brush and no shade (and it is unseasonably hot!). A couple of sources suggested that the Sanabres is better now that AVE construction is done. Lots of conflicting route information.
Would love to hear from anyone who has walked C. Sanabres very recently or has current information. Is it still beautiful? Is there still a lot of freeway walking?
This is my daughter's first Camino and I want it to be a nice walk. Thanks!