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2024 Camino Guides
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How to Successfully Prepare for Your Camino
Camino Preparation Guide
The focus is on reducing the risk of failure through being well prepared. 2nd ed.
Altus 24 Liters daypack (DENON 24 H30)
Altus 24 Liters daypack (DENON 24 H30)
Technical backpack for day trips with backpack cover and internal compartment for the hydration bladder. Ideal daypack for excursions where we need a medium capacity backpack. The back with Air Flow System creates large air channels that will keep our back as cool as possible.

€83,-
The Shell Toucher All Weather Camino Sling Bag
Camino Inspired & Tested Gear!
New Original Camino Gear Designed Especially with The Modern Peregrino In Mind!
2024 Camino Guides
More 2024 Camino Guides available
The 2024 Camino guides will be coming out little by little. Here is a collection of the ones that are out so far.
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We will pick up your luggage, send it to Santiago and store it for you (2024)
Let us pick up your suitcase once you arrive in Europe....
...and ship it to Santiago for storage. You pick it up once in Santiago. Service offered by Casa Ivar (we use DHL for transportation).
Camino Jewellery
Camino Jewellery
A selection of Camino Jewellery
Camino Jewellery
Camino Jewellery
A selection of Camino Jewellery
Get your Spanish eSim (phone number)
Get a Spanish mobil number + data while on the Camino
Get a spanish phone number with Airalo. eSim, so no physical SIM card. Easy to use app to add more funds if needed.
The Shell Toucher All Weather Camino Sling Bag
Camino Inspired & Tested Gear!
New Original Camino Gear Designed Especially with The Modern Peregrino In Mind!
How to Successfully Prepare for Your Camino
Camino Preparation Guide
The focus is on reducing the risk of failure through being well prepared. 2nd ed.
Create your own ad
Promote your Camino Project on the forum
€2,-/day will present your project to thousands of visitors each day. All interested in the Camino de Santiago.
How to Successfully Prepare for Your Camino
Camino Preparation Guide
The focus is on reducing the risk of failure through being well prepared. 2nd ed.
How to Successfully Prepare for Your Camino
Camino Preparation Guide
The focus is on reducing the risk of failure through being well prepared. 2nd ed.
Altus 24 Liters daypack (DENON 24 H30)
Altus 24 Liters daypack (DENON 24 H30)
Technical backpack for day trips with backpack cover and internal compartment for the hydration bladder. Ideal daypack for excursions where we need a medium capacity backpack. The back with Air Flow System creates large air channels that will keep our back as cool as possible.

€83,-
How to avoid failure "be prepared"
Camino Ready, Backpacks, Boots etc
3rd Edition. More content, training & pack guides avoid common mistakes, bed bugs etc
Camino Lingo Cover
Camino Lingo - 2024 Edition
A guide to speaking Spanish on the Camino - enrich your pilgrim experience.
Camino Jewellery
Camino Jewellery
A selection of Camino Jewellery
Altus ANDES 400 H30 sleeping bag
Altus ANDES 400 H30 sleeping bag
Down bag (90/10 duvet) of 700 fills with 180 g (6.34 ounces) of filling. Mummy-shaped structure, ideal when you are looking for lightness with great heating performance.

€149,-
Create your own ad
Promote your Camino Project on the forum
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Camino Way markers in Bronze
Camino Way markers in Bronze
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
Create your own ad
Promote your Camino Project on the forum
€2,-/day will present your project to thousands of visitors each day. All interested in the Camino de Santiago.
How to Successfully Prepare for Your Camino
Camino Preparation Guide
The focus is on reducing the risk of failure through being well prepared. 2nd ed.
How to avoid failure "be prepared"
Camino Ready, Backpacks, Boots etc
3rd Edition. More content, training & pack guides avoid common mistakes, bed bugs etc
Camino Way markers in Bronze
Camino Way markers in Bronze
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
Altus 24 Liters daypack (DENON 24 H30)
Altus 24 Liters daypack (DENON 24 H30)
Technical backpack for day trips with backpack cover and internal compartment for the hydration bladder. Ideal daypack for excursions where we need a medium capacity backpack. The back with Air Flow System creates large air channels that will keep our back as cool as possible.

€83,-
How to avoid failure "be prepared"
Camino Ready, Backpacks, Boots etc
3rd Edition. More content, training & pack guides avoid common mistakes, bed bugs etc
Camino Way markers in Bronze
Camino Way markers in Bronze
The one from Galicia (the round) and the one from Castilla & Leon. Individually numbered and made by the same people that make the ones you see on your walk.
Altus BALI Sleeping bag liner
Altus BALI Sleeping bag liner
Ideal sleeping bag liner whether we want to add a thermal plus to our bag, or if we want to use it alone to sleep in shelters or hostels. Thanks to its mummy shape, it adapts perfectly to our body.

€46,-
The Shell Toucher All Weather Camino Sling Bag
Camino Inspired & Tested Gear!
New Original Camino Gear Designed Especially with The Modern Peregrino In Mind!
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SYates said:
If you had only one word to describe your Camino/pilgrimage experience - which word would it be?

Buen Camino, SY
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One word! for such an experience? wow. Your question is thought provoking and many words come to mind covering emotions, spirituality and the supposed "romance" of the Camino. It also depends on the "actual Camino" experience of the individual. I completed my first Camino Frances from Saint Jean to Santiago in Sept/Oct 2016 staying in municipal albergues and the odd donativo. Real budget stuff and carried my rucksack. Did I get blisters? Yes but they were all part of the journey and the overall experience. 28 days well spent and at the end of it all, My single word is "worthwhile".

In fact it was so "worthwhile," I am setting out on my second Camino 10th September from Irun to Santiago. Same deal. Arrive, pick up the back pack and start walking.

Good luck to all out there on the Camino.
 
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How to Successfully Prepare for Your Camino
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The focus is on reducing the risk of failure through being well prepared. 2nd ed.
Camino Way markers in Bronze
Camino Way markers in Bronze
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Get a Spanish mobil number + data while on the Camino
Get a spanish phone number with Airalo. eSim, so no physical SIM card. Easy to use app to add more funds if needed.

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