Numbers for Camino Portugues

handzondeck2

Active Member

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• Mar 28, 2010

• #1

Hi all

Does anyone have numbers for the amount of pilgrims walking the Camino Portugues in APril? Being a Holy Year will it be crowded?

THanks Sharon

 

JohnnieWalker

Nunca se camina solo

Donating Member

• Mar 28, 2010

• #2

Month by month figures aren't easily available unless anyone else has a good source. But a way of looking at this is that last year around 7% of the total number of pilgrims to Santiago walked the Camino Portugues in April. Of the total last year 11956 walked the CP route therefore one could assume some 836 walked in April. It looks as if in the Holy Year numbers are at least doubling.

Maybe others will have a better source of information or indeed better arithmetic!.

Regards

John

 

muppet

Member

• Mar 28, 2010

• #3

hi Sharon,

Yes I'm worrying about the same thing in regard to accomodation although the other side of the coin is..... the more the merrier! I'm looking forward to walking part of the time alone but meeting people from all parts of the world will also be a blast.

Muppet

 

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Davroos

Active Member

• Mar 28, 2010

• #4

Personally, at this time in the season, I don't think there will be a load of people. I believe that there will be morE closer to the holy day

 

JohnnieWalker

Nunca se camina solo

Donating Member

• Mar 28, 2010

• #5

Davroos

I know what you mean but April is the beginning of the busy months and in previous years numbers in April have been approximately 5 times more than they were in March.

John

 

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Javier Martin

Veteran Member

• Mar 29, 2010

• #6

handzondeck2 said:

Hi all

Does anyone have numbers for the amount of pilgrims walking the Camino Portugues in APril? Being a Holy Year will it be crowded?

THanks Sharon

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It should be crowded, but not too much.

Now I have several friends walking it.

Buen Camino,

Javier Martin
Madrid, Spain.

 

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Davroos

Active Member

• Mar 29, 2010

• #7

John

If there are 5 times as many, are they all coming from Porto or are they just jumping on at Tui?

 

JohnnieWalker

Nunca se camina solo

Donating Member

• Mar 29, 2010

• #8

Davroos said:

John

If there are 5 times as many, are they all coming from Porto or are they just jumping on at Tui?

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Looking at total numbers of pilgrims arriving in Santiago last year 3236 started in Oporto and 4169 in Tui.

Have a look: http://www.archicompostela.org/Peregrin ... TINERARIOS

Remember I failed statistics

John

 

hel&scott

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

2004 St Jean - Santiago, 2008 &18 Seville - Finesterre, 2010 Ferrol - Lisbon, 2012 from Cartehenga.

• Mar 30, 2010

• #9

Fascinating stats… I’d heard that the Portuguese route was not used much but it looks like it gets a fair bit of traffic (though very few start in Lisbao) and most do just jump in at Tui – is it me or does this have any link to our local beer http://www.tui.co.nz/i/hero_home/yeah_right.jpg :?:

Interesting too, to see a steady stream of traffic from NZ given our population base 200 camino-ites per year equates to 0.01% quiet respectable compared to the Spanish (0.17%) and German (0.02%) - Okay forgive me I’m a nerd. :roll:

 

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Javier Martin

Veteran Member

• Mar 30, 2010

• #10

hel&scott said:

Fascinating stats… I’d heard that the Portuguese route was not used much but...

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This is one of the most walked, may be the second after the CF.

Buen Camino,

Javier Martin
Madrid, Spain.

 

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mmonomm

Member

• May 26, 2010

• #11

hi, i just came back from it
was NOT CROWDED. in Portugal i walked completely alone!!!!! from Tui yes, more people, but there was not a single night problem of not finding a bed in the albergue. so th ehuge crowds are not yet walking