Caminho da Fe, Brazil.

[Bradypus]

A pilgrim Facebook friend of mine walked the Caminho da Fe in Brazil a few years ago. So I was interested to read this article today by a journalist who walked the route. In Portuguese but Google Translate seems to make a pretty good job at rendering it in English. One I might add to the "perhaps" list if I can get over my anxieties about South American wildlife

Caminho da Fé: o que vivi e aprendi ao caminhar por 300 km rumo a Aparecida

Editor do g1 conta como foi fazer o conhecido trajeto entre interior de São Paulo e Sul de Minas percorrido por milhares de pessoas todos os anos. Veja dicas e roteiro sugerido.

g1.globo.com

 

[J.Patrick]

What a wonderful discovery — thank you. It took me a moment to discern that “bubbles” were “blisters.”

I don’t know what Brazilian wildlife I should worry about. It’s the journalist’s distances, which were very long, that caught my attention. I’m guessing from the official website’s map that they didn’t need to be quite so long if you had the time to stretch it out.

The destination, the National Shrine of Aparecida, is the second largest church in the world, interesting in its own right. Who knew? Thanks again.

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[rioja routard]

I would have thought wildlife would have been the least of worries. Each time I have been to Brazil the amount of crime is what is worrying. Not a safe country to visit at all.

 

[Pelegrin]

When I visit my homevillage in Galicia always stop on my return to Madrid in a Vega de Valcarce (CF) bar to have a bocadillo and talk with pilgrims. Yesterday, there were many pilgrims walking there and I was talking with a couple from Brazil, they told me that the Caminho da Fe is beautiful, has albergues, is safe but is hard. They asked me to say it on this forum.

 

[Bradypus]

One of my Facebook friends is a BBC journalist. In 2015 he walked the Caminho da Fe and made a radio programme about his journey. That doesn't seem to be available online but this article is still up for viewing. Looks interesting but I'm not that intrepid!

Walk of faith: 500km of sugar, storms and blisters

The Caminho da Fe is one of the longest Catholic pilgrimage routes in the world, stretching 500km across Brazil - it's also one of the newest.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Pelegrin]

They consider it a prolongation of Camino de Santiago in Brazil.

 

[grdemedeiros]

Thank you for this! We just finished our first Camino de Santiago (Portuguese route) and are already looking for pilgrimage in other countries. Except for that rough first day, this looks super exciting to us. (We're slowpokes; we never walked as much as 30K in one day on our Camino).

Whoot! Can't wait to learn more.

If you're an adventure traveler, I wouldn't be worried about safety. I've been traveling to Brazil since 1986 and have never once felt in danger from people (this even before I spoke Portuguese). I've also never encountered scary wildlife outside of a guided safari-like experience in the Pantanal. (I'm more wary of Bears and Cougars walking my home trails in the Pacific Northwest of the US!)

A cougar attacked them. They fought back for 45 harrowing minutes

It was a beautiful Pacific Northwest day. Sunny, puffy clouds on the horizon.

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