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[QUOTE="lt56ny, post: 654213, member: 19122"] I have not yet walked the Via De La Plata. I plan to do it next year. With the intense heat of Southern Spain I would be very careful about walking this route. If you do you will need lots of water and I would also recommend getting one of those reflective umbrellas to keep the sun off of you. I am not sure about camping out, but with the heat that you very well may encounter and the lack of shade that extra weight could really suck! I have watched a few videos on You Tube and the early part of the walk seems to be flat but not a lot of shelter from the sun. Check out Gronze.com. It is a Spanish language website. If you can't read Spanish open it in Google Crome and it will automatically translate. Gronze has all the stages. You definitely don't need to follow the stages. Walk your own Camino but it will give an up to date listing of Albergues, Donativos, Pensions etc and prices. It will tell you the number of Beds and the cooking and eating options. Not all Albergues have kitchens. While some others may have a kitchen but have no or very limited pots, pans etc. At donativos an absolute minimum donation that does not include communal meals I would say is $5-7 Euros. Definitely check Gronze for all the towns and where there are little tiendas or grocery stores to buy food. You can also get the Wise Pilgrim app that has maps and lists of places to sleep. Your options in some of the really small villages may be very limited as a vegetarian, but I am just guessing. I think this because when I walked the Camino Frances for the first time about 8 years ago my vegetarian friends felt like their options then were pretty poor most nights if they couldn't find a decent size grocery store or the albergue had no cooking facilities. Now I know it is much better. I am sure that VDLP sees way less pilgrims than the CF saw the first time I walked it. I have no idea where you can camp but again watching videos it seems like things are pretty wide open so I would have no idea what is private and public land and what the camping policy is. There are definitely some historic antiquities on this camino. If you do a little research here and in other places I know you will find out exactly where they are. From what I read there are a lot of Roman and I would also assume Islamic sites of great interest. In terms of water, again there are a lot of mentions in Gronze, as well as blogs and comments that pilgrims on this site have written about water availability. One last thing, even when you see that one of the guides says that a village has a cafe, or tienda to buy food or an albergue, depending on the time of day in the afternoon, the cafe or the tienda may be closed and may not open for hours, and there will be no one in site as everyone is taking their siesta. When it comes to the albergues, the later in October or November you are walking the stronger the possibility that the albergue may be closed for the season. Hope this helps and hope you get better info from those who have walked the route. [/QUOTE]
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