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You are looking at just under 250k, and yes I suppose you could walk it, provided you don't look too much at the scenery, don't spend too much time in Santiago, don't talk too much with people along the way, it can be done. Starting closer in will of course deny you the Compostela document. If at all possible, try and add another couple of days in order to allow the Camino to reveal itself.
Sarria is 100k, if you start closer in you won't have the required 100k.Hi @scruffy1 - Can you please elaborate on why a Compostela wouldn't be awarded? Has the kilometers required changed from a minimum of 100 already? I remember talk about that changing but I didn't realize it had already changed. Thanks for the info.
As already stated, you have to walk around 30 km. a day. You don't have any time to look around ore stay a bit longer in places.I hoping to walk no more than 8-9 days total and hoping to go from O Cebreiro to Finisterre. Can I make it in 9 days? If not, is there a better starting spot farther out than Sarria?
Thanks for the help. Planning to do this in April of 2016.
Personally, after walking from SJPP to Santiago - we bussed to Finisterre. Our friends that walked said the cafes and stops were few and far between and that they didn't find it that great.
Hi LaurieTo every opinion, there is its opposite! I have to say that I think this is definitely a minority position, however. I walk to Finisterre/Muxia every chance I get. I don't ever carry more water/food than on my camino, but it is true that there are some stretches of maybe 10 km without services. But it's really nothing exaggerated. Highlights are many -- the lovely village of Ponte Maceira, the old stone albergue of Olveiroa and the As Pias meson for a great meal, the Dumbria albergue, the walk out to the beach at Lires, coming to the end of the headlands and looking out over the ocean before Cee. Just depends on whether you walk first to Finisterre or to Muxia, but either way, I think many people find it to be a very enjoyable walk.
So back to the OP -- 9 days for 250 km gives you an average under 30 km a day. Though I would say that's a rate that is higher than the average walker, it isn't extreme. I have walked many times to Finisterre or Muxia in 3 days and think that it's totally doable for someone in good shape, no need to be a star athlete to do that. It is true as MT says that most people walking out to the coast from Santiago have been walking a lot longer than you will have been, but I think that especially if you make your first day out of Santiago to Vilaserio instead of Negreira, the next two days are much more manageable.
Buen camino, Laurie
LaurieTo every opinion, there is its opposite! I have to say that I think this is definitely a minority position, however. I walk to Finisterre/Muxia every chance I get. I don't ever carry more water/food than on my camino, but it is true that there are some stretches of maybe 10 km without services. But it's really nothing exaggerated. Highlights are many -- the lovely village of Ponte Maceira, the old stone albergue of Olveiroa and the As Pias meson for a great meal, the Dumbria albergue, the walk out to the beach at Lires, coming to the end of the headlands and looking out over the ocean before Cee. Just depends on whether you walk first to Finisterre or to Muxia, but either way, I think many people find it to be a very enjoyable walk.
So back to the OP -- 9 days for 250 km gives you an average under 30 km a day. Though I would say that's a rate that is higher than the average walker, it isn't extreme. I have walked many times to Finisterre or Muxia in 3 days and think that it's totally doable for someone in good shape, no need to be a star athlete to do that. It is true as MT says that most people walking out to the coast from Santiago have been walking a lot longer than you will have been, but I think that especially if you make your first day out of Santiago to Vilaserio instead of Negreira, the next two days are much more manageable.
Buen camino, Laurie
Laurie
I agree with your assessment, but as we move along we make choices, as really the reason the route to Muxia or Finnesterre is quiet is because most folks stop in Santiago. My point is that for a new person walking, part of the freedom of the Camino is to simply change your mind of what you will do every day. Just as I continued on to Finesterre, with no clear plans to do so in the beginning. I just wonder about those of you that keep returning to new routes do you do more planning, or less? There are simply a lot of options.
Buen Camino
Keith
Hi Laurie
Would you recommend to go to Finisterre first or Muxia?
We are planning to do the round trip from Santiago in May.
Hi, Audies,
Decisions, decisions... This post has links to several discussions on this topic. For me both ways are great, but you have to give up something either way. If you walk first to Muxia, you don't get that lovely view of the ocean right before you descend into Cee, and miss that nice coastal walk into Finisterre. If you walk first to Finisterre, and then on to Muxia, you then don't end your camino with a sunset at the lighthouse, which always seems like the right way to end, at least for me. The sun sets in Muxia too, of course, but if you're in the municipal albergue you'll have to content yourself with watching it from the roof patio of the albergue (since it will be closed after 10). I don't know if there's a group that gathers out at the church on the rocks, though, for people with flexibility to come in whenever they want.
https://www.caminodesantiago.me/com...te-from-sdec-towards-muxia.37882/#post-369484
Hi Laurie
Do you walk back to Santiago?
If so, how long (approx) to do the round trip?
Would you recommend it?
Thank you.
Carol
Hi, Carol, I have never walked back to Santiago from either Finisterre or Muxia. I always just hop on a bus. I am so directionally challenged that I know my limits -- walking backwards would result in my getting lost many times. Between Finisterre and Muxia, there's no problem,the arrows are clear in either direction. It's the part back from the ending point that would do me in. There just aren't usually enough pilgrims walking towards Finisterre or Muxia so I could take my cues from the oncoming traffic.
I take four days and walk either Santiago - Vilaserio-Dumbria-Muxia-Finisterre or Santiago-Negreira-Olveiroa-Finisterre-Muxia. I like ending in Finisterre, even though I like Muxia more, so go figure.
Buen camino, Laurie
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