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Anniesantiago said:Please take special care on the route from Porto to Santiago. There are some very narrow places where there is no shoulder to walk on and the cars go by very fast. You must walk single file and stay completely off the road because there are curves. It can be scary. I'm not sure how your sister will manage, but I'm sure you'll figure it out. Bom Caminho!
Hi Anna,Hi Zahid I assume that you know the time you are in Fatima is one of the two main dates for the Portuguese to go on pilgrimage to it. I have seen estimates that at the two main times of the year nearly a million people go there, a lot by foot. The Fatima group whose website i pointed you too,do group trips at those times, the advantage of going with them- if they are doing one- is that they will have a roof to go over your head at night even if it is in a sports hall and you have to sleep on your roll mat.
Which just having written I realised that you will need your sleeping bag as well.
It could be a very beautiful time to walk to Fatima with long lines of pilgrims and a lot of them will be singing.
Mike
Hi Zahid I assume that you know the time you are in Fatima is one of the two main dates for the Portuguese to go on pilgrimage to it. I have seen estimates that at the two main times of the year nearly a million people go there, a lot by foot. The Fatima group whose website i pointed you too,do group trips at those times, the advantage of going with them- if they are doing one- is that they will have a roof to go over your head at night even if it is in a sports hall and you have to sleep on your roll mat.
Which just having written I realised that you will need your sleeping bag as well.
It could be a very beautiful time to walk to Fatima with long lines of pilgrims and a lot of them will be singing.
Mike
Hi Anna,
5 of us walked the Portuguese Camino in July, 2012, taking the bus from Fatima to Porto where we began the walk. We walked 120 miles in 9 days which I thought was too fast. (I was the oldest in the group). One night, we stayed at a hotel because the albergue was full, once we slept on the floor with mats because the beds were all taken, and once the albergue manager drove us to an albergue extension as the main lodge was full. It was an unforgettable experience and almost always we found the yellow arrows easily. We came through some warm rains but the climate was the best. (we got lucky, I think.) Rural Portugal along the camino is just lovely. I voted for not walking along the coast because I've hiked on beaches before and it is more challening in my opinion. We arrived in Santiago and stayed at a wonderful Franciscan homeless shelter and albergue quite near the cathedral. The next morning we witnessed the beautiful thurible being swung high into the ceiling of the cathedral during Mass. Getting back to Fatima and Lisbon was much more difficult. We could not find either a direct train or direct bus route to Fatima from Santiago and wound up cobbling train and bus tickets to get us back in time for the flight home from Lisbon.
Buen Camino to you!
Connie
The ALSA line, which exist for years, leave from Santiago at 10:30am every day, and stops in Vigo, Braga, Porto, Coimbra, Fátima, Santarém and Lisbon. How the heck did you missed that?
Best Regards
Diogo
Hello Diogo,
Thank you for your reply, our guide (his first time on the camino) must not have known about the ALSA line. Is it a bus or a train?
Connie
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