Camino Primitivo, a short photographic tour

[katdavis]

Hi Everyone,

I walked the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela in October and it was an absolutely stunning walk with spectacular scenery. Challenging mountains, hills, lush green forests, heaps of mushrooms, quaint stone hamlets, the delicacies of Asturias and Galicia, the sound of the cow bells... I can't recommend this camino enough!!

I made a video of some of the photos I took along the way because the beauty of this trail needs to be shared

Click here for video

If anyone has any questions or is thinking of doing this walk, please don't hesitate to ask away. I also wrote a daily blog: www.followingthearrows.com

Did I mention how much I loved this Camino?!

Buen Camino,

Kat

 

[Theatregal]

Hi Everyone,

I walked the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela in October and it was an absolutely stunning walk with spectacular scenery. Challenging mountains, hills, lush green forests, heaps of mushrooms, quaint stone hamlets, the delicacies of Asturias and Galicia, the sound of the cow bells... I can't recommend this camino enough!!

I made a video of some of the photos I took along the way because the beauty of this trail needs to be shared

Click here for video

If anyone has any questions or is thinking of doing this walk, please don't hesitate to ask away. I also wrote a daily blog: www.followingthearrows.com

Did I mention how much I loved this Camino?!

Buen Camino,

Kat

Gorgeous photos. Wonderful memories. Thank you Kat.

 

[Mark Francis Auchincloss]

Fantastic video Kat really enjoyed it !
Here's a shorter one I did for CaminoWays.com which hopefully will also encourage more people to do this camino

 

[ebrandt]

This is wonderful -- Thanks so much for sharing. I am sitting in my office on a dreary November morning. Its sleeting threatening to snow more seriously. I didn't do my usual walk this morning because of the weather and I have cabin fever in the worst way. Your video transported me to my Camino place! Thanks, Thanks, Thanks! Liz

 

[JohnMcM]

Hi Everyone,

I walked the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela in October and it was an absolutely stunning walk with spectacular scenery. Challenging mountains, hills, lush green forests, heaps of mushrooms, quaint stone hamlets, the delicacies of Asturias and Galicia, the sound of the cow bells... I can't recommend this camino enough!!

I made a video of some of the photos I took along the way because the beauty of this trail needs to be shared

Click here for video

If anyone has any questions or is thinking of doing this walk, please don't hesitate to ask away. I also wrote a daily blog: www.followingthearrows.com

Did I mention how much I loved this Camino?!

Buen Camino,

Kat

Kat, thank you, this has been so helpful to my own planning. Great stuff!
Buen Camino

 

[JohnMcM]

Fantastic video Kat really enjoyed it !
Here's a shorter one I did for CaminoWays.com which hopefully will also encourage more people to do this camino

A great help. Thank you so much.
Buen Camino

 

[KinkyOne]

Hi Everyone,

I walked the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela in October and it was an absolutely stunning walk with spectacular scenery. Challenging mountains, hills, lush green forests, heaps of mushrooms, quaint stone hamlets, the delicacies of Asturias and Galicia, the sound of the cow bells... I can't recommend this camino enough!!

I made a video of some of the photos I took along the way because the beauty of this trail needs to be shared

Click here for video

If anyone has any questions or is thinking of doing this walk, please don't hesitate to ask away. I also wrote a daily blog: www.followingthearrows.com

Did I mention how much I loved this Camino?!

Buen Camino,

Kat

WOW, wonderful scenery. And great photos!!!
Thanks for taking your time and sharing all this!

Ultreia!

 

[jmcarp]

Hi Everyone,
I walked the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela in October and it was an absolutely stunning walk with spectacular scenery. Challenging mountains, hills, lush green forests, heaps of mushrooms, quaint stone hamlets, the delicacies of Asturias and Galicia, the sound of the cow bells... I can't recommend this camino enough!!
I made a video of some of the photos I took along the way because the beauty of this trail needs to be shared

Click here for video

Fantastic video, Kat -- very well done! And the music was perfect.
Ultreia,
Jim

 

[Kiwi-family]

Special memories

 

[lettinggo]

Hi Everyone,

I walked the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela in October and it was an absolutely stunning walk with spectacular scenery. Challenging mountains, hills, lush green forests, heaps of mushrooms, quaint stone hamlets, the delicacies of Asturias and Galicia, the sound of the cow bells... I can't recommend this camino enough!!

I made a video of some of the photos I took along the way because the beauty of this trail needs to be shared

Click here for video

If anyone has any questions or is thinking of doing this walk, please don't hesitate to ask away. I also wrote a daily blog: www.followingthearrows.com

Did I mention how much I loved this Camino?!

Buen Camino,

Kat

Hola and thank you for your post and making memories come back.
Lettinggo

 

[Silvester]

Hi Kat
I noticed one of the photos in your video was that roofless stone tower with trees growing up through it which you pass on the right as you descend into Embalse de Salime. I think you labelled it a "cortin". Do you know what it was for? Defence?
Thanks
Mary

 

[Al the optimist]

Lovely Kat. Thank you so much. I had intended to walk this myself this summer but my plans changed. Thanks for sharing.

 

[katdavis]

Hi Kat
I noticed one of the photos in your video was that roofless stone tower with trees growing up through it which you pass on the right as you descend into Embalse de Salime. I think you labelled it a "cortin". Do you know what it was for? Defence?
Thanks
Mary

Hi Silvester,

When I was walking the Primitivo, Angulero (one of the forum members), posted a message about this structure (cortín) and said they were built to protect bee hives from bears. He told me to look out for one near Grandas de Salime and that's the one I saw and is in the slideshow. The link to his message is here:
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/community/threads/hi-from-the-camino-primitivo.29393/

I would have loved to have seen a bear ... from a distance!

Kat

 

[Al the optimist]

I hope that wasn't a Bear Faced Lie Kat!

 

[katdavis]

I hope that wasn't a Bear Faced Lie Kat!

Lol! Check the thread Al, Angulero mentions a great story about a bear who watched a group of tourists use a ladder to climb up and look inside the cortin, then somehow copied the tourists and ended up stuck inside one!

Kat

 

[Al the optimist]

Yes I had seen that Kat. Just another of my pathetic attempts at humour on a miserable autumn day in el centro de Inglaterra while I impatiently wait for next month's little tapas trip to Madrid.

 

[katdavis]

Yes I had seen that Kat. Just another of my pathetic attempts at humour on a miserable autumn day in el centro de Inglaterra while I impatiently wait for next month's little tapas trip to Madrid.

I know how you feel Al, I've been back a month and am desperate to walk again, when will I be cured of this walking bug?!

 

[pilgrim b]

Like both the Video's Kat and MyDestinationGalicia thank you for the preview of my coming camino 2015 health and body willing of course.

 

[Tia Valeria]

Hi Kat
I noticed one of the photos in your video was that roofless stone tower with trees growing up through it which you pass on the right as you descend into Embalse de Salime. I think you labelled it a "cortin". Do you know what it was for? Defence?
Thanks
Mary

A cortin is an enclosed safe place for bees. It keeps predators out. There is a good one visible from the museum in Grandas de Salime.

 

[Al the optimist]

I've been back a month and am desperate to walk again, when will I be cured of this walking bug?!

NEVER!!!!

 

[jemitch65]

Hi Everyone,

I walked the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela in October and it was an absolutely stunning walk with spectacular scenery. Challenging mountains, hills, lush green forests, heaps of mushrooms, quaint stone hamlets, the delicacies of Asturias and Galicia, the sound of the cow bells... I can't recommend this camino enough!!

I made a video of some of the photos I took along the way because the beauty of this trail needs to be shared

Click here for video

If anyone has any questions or is thinking of doing this walk, please don't hesitate to ask away. I also wrote a daily blog: www.followingthearrows.com

Did I mention how much I loved this Camino?!

Buen Camino,

Kat

Hi Kat: Extraordinarily beautiful. I am walking the Norte in June 2015 and am considering the Primitivo when I get there. You just may have helped make up my mind with the photo presentation. I am also a beekeeping hobbyist, so I loved the photo you took. I noticed several apiaries when I walked the France in 2012. Well done. John

 

[Galuh]

Hey Kat, what a beautiful video (music). My planning is to do Oviedo-Compostela by folding bike " The Airnimal Joey " (april-mei 2015).
Well done.

Tikky

 

[RebaWeber]

beautiful photos, thank you for sharing I can't wait to go!

 

[Anemone del Camino]

Hi Everyone,

I walked the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela in October and it was an absolutely stunning walk with spectacular scenery. Challenging mountains, hills, lush green forests, heaps of mushrooms, quaint stone hamlets, the delicacies of Asturias and Galicia, the sound of the cow bells...

Kat

Beautiful montage Kat. I understand the Hospitales Route is quite a challenge, but looking at your pictures I was thinking a night "al fresco" would be well worth it. Question, when you say "challenging" - how "challenging"? I am wondering if I am not just nust to be considering this. On a scale of 1-10, and giving a grade to the hike from SJPJ to Roncesvalles, or the climb of El Brusco on Del Norte, what would the Primitivo get, and how many days like that would one face? I have found a way to do some very short days, perhaps too short, but at least I would not have many over 20Km.

Thank you for those lovely images set to beautiful music.

 

[katdavis]

Beautiful montage Kat. I understand the Hospitales Route is quite a challenge, but looking at your pictures I was thinking a night "al fresco" would be well worth it. Question, when you say "challenging" - how "challenging"? I am wondering if I am not just nust to be considering this. On a scale of 1-10, and giving a grade to the hike from SJPJ to Roncesvalles, or the climb of El Brusco on Del Norte, what would the Primitivo get, and how many days like that would one face? I have found a way to do some very short days, perhaps too short, but at least I would not have many over 20Km.

Thank you for those lovely images set to beautiful music.

Hi Anemone del Camino,

When I walked the Camino Frances, the "high route" was closed due to the amount of snow, so I had to take the low route (which was beautiful), but alas, I can't compare because I haven't experienced that route... I'm also yet to walk the Norte, so I'm no use there either, sorry!

However, I do have the elevation profiles on my blog here which will help. I guess I would compare the Hospitales Route to the day walking up to O'Cebreiro on the Camino Frances, but the Primitivo felt like 3 or 4 of these O'Cebreiro days. The climbs (up and down), calm down a bit after Lugo.

It was a challenge and you need to like walking UP, but it's not impossible The only piece of advice I would give is to not attempt the Hospitales Route in bad weather.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help, hopefully the profiles on my blog can give you more detailed info.

Buen Camino!

Kat

 

[Anemone del Camino]

... the Hospitales Route to the day walking up to O'Cebreiro on the Camino Frances, but the Primitivo felt like 3 or 4 of these O'Cebreiro days. The climbs (up and down), calm down a bit after Lugo.
Kat[/QUOTE

Kat, your comparison with O'Cebreiro is just perfect, thank you. Clearly another route where I will be praying the walking pole designers were out of MIT and not the local technical college ;0) . @liz Brant - how many points a day do you think I can eat in Chorizo on those points ;0)

 

[norelle]

Wonderful - thank you for sharing!

buen camino

 

[Silvio Sirias]

Darn it, Kat!

I am walking the Camino Frances starting in mid-September and now you've made me want to walk the Primitivo too.

Oh, well . . . there I go again.

For those of you who have not had a chance to see it, Kat also did a splendid video of her walk along the Camino Frances.

Enjoy,

Silvio

 

[SYates]

What a beautiful video! Thanks, having tears in my eyes just now ... SY

 

[forwardwego]

Hi Everyone,

I walked the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela in October and it was an absolutely stunning walk with spectacular scenery. Challenging mountains, hills, lush green forests, heaps of mushrooms, quaint stone hamlets, the delicacies of Asturias and Galicia, the sound of the cow bells... I can't recommend this camino enough!!

I made a video of some of the photos I took along the way because the beauty of this trail needs to be shared

Click here for video

If anyone has any questions or is thinking of doing this walk, please don't hesitate to ask away. I also wrote a daily blog: www.followingthearrows.com

Did I mention how much I loved this Camino?!

Buen Camino,

Kat

...absolutely beautiful...pics & music. Thank you for providing name of the composer for the music also.