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Via de la Plata/Sanabres to Ourense or to Astorga? So confused!
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[QUOTE="Bradypus, post: 1142781, member: 42372"] Not surprised you are confused. There are conflicting opinions all over the internet. My own understanding is that strictly speaking the Via de la Plata continues from Granja de Moruela to Astorga. But in practice the majority of those who have walked from Seville and other southern towns prefer to turn westward on to the Camino Sanabres and so reach Santiago via Ourense. The pilgrim office does not record arrivals from the Camino Sanabres separately and I think that walking either option will be recorded as "Via de la Plata". Infrastructure? - much more infrastructure on the Camino Frances after Astorga. But also vastly greater numbers competing for it. On the Sanabres accommodation and food/drink are much more widely spaced and scarcer overall. If you want shorter stages and more options then go via Astorga. Beautiful? - again hard to say. On the Frances after Astorga you have two magnificent mountainous sections to walk (Rabanal to Molinaseca and the O Cebreiro ascent/descent). But on the Sanabres you have comparable walking over a couple of passes as you enter Galicia and along a mountain ridge after A Gudiña. Personally I prefer the Sanabres but that might be because the times I have walked the route I have had it to myself. [/QUOTE]
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