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Puzzled about route finding

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NotLostYet

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Ola,
I am new to the community and have just spent several days walking south to north on the Caminhos Nascente. On two sequential days (Cuba to Alvito & Alvito to Viana do Alentejo) we ran into trouble after following the recently downloaded GPS track. In both cases the path gradually faded until we were walking through rough pasture, with possibly aggressive cattle and had to climb over several tall barbed wire fences. There seems to be a divergence between the GPS track and the route with waymarkers.
I am not sure if this is a regular issue or due to my own inexperience. I wanted to pass this on regardless to others who plan to walk these section.
Obrigado
 
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Sorry to hear this but I hope you otherwise enjoyed the Caminho Nascente (it is my favourite camino).

I went back through what I wrote for the Wise Pilgrim guide in 2021 and found these waymarking notes for the two days you mention -- I'm not sure if they are related to the issues you had but it seems possible.


Also, for what it's worth, here are my waymarking notes for the following stage, which is a difficult one:

 
The N380 route also opens up the possibility of a detour to see the Cromeleque dos Almendres prehistoric site, if that piques your interest!



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Sounds like your route was out of date.
Always have an extra app like "gronze maps" and "buen camino" installed which are updated more frequently.

I'd suggest the arrows take precedence although sometimes they take you a scenic route rather than a direct route - e.g once it led me to a river that may have been safe but wet to cross, when gronze maps currently suggested the road.

There should never be a need to cross a fence especially not a barbed wire fence.
Only once did I do a route that crossed a small fence I could step over with little difficulty.
 
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Hi,
Thank you very much for your input. The route we followed was downloaded 10 days ago from the Caminhos site

Caminhos Santiago – Turismo do Alentejo

Turismo do Alentejo
www.caminhosdesantiagoalentejoribatejo.pt
I will follow up with Gronze maps.
Cheers
Andy
 
NotLostYet said:
The route we followed was downloaded 10 days ago from the Caminhos site

I will follow up with Gronze maps.
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Always a good idea with "official" Pt tourism sites. They are unveiled with great fanfare, but in my experience so far--living in central Portugal--they rarely are re-visited to update when conditions on the ground may change. And because they're mainly aimed at tourists (there are not that many Portuguese pilgrims to Santiago), they're looked upon as a bit of an afterthought to "the really important things" even though Portugal is heavily dependent on tourism revenue.

A site like Gronze, dedicated to the caminos, is much more likely to be reliable.

Sad but true.
 
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