starting from Porto oct 10- debating Caminha crossover...

[HumanistHiker]

There's a lot of info on the merits of the various Portuguese routes on the stingy nomads site https://stingynomads.com/camino-portugues-stages/

 

[Aayer]

Any current thoughts on the quality of walking/landscape/cities/business of trail? i only have about 6-7 days to walk and am hoping to do longish days like 30-35 km, spend a night at the top in porto and at the end, would like to see Valenca and or Tui and have heard Ponte de Lima is cool but also Baiona/Vigo. i could always stop in one of those towns on the bus/train back to Porto. Also is there a spot where i can find km measurements for the Littoral sections, and does anyone have specific reccommendatiosn for where to do the Litorral vs the Coastal? many thanks!

 

[Aayer]

There's a lot of info on the merits of the various Portuguese routes on the stingy nomads site https://stingynomads.com/camino-portugues-stages/

i have read that but will again! ( i may suffer from some sort of info accumulation disease , im sure im not alone in this era of research gluttony, choice paralysis etc)

 

[dougfitz]

Haven't you asked this question in another sub-forum already. It will only confuse those of us who want to help you to have two active threads on essentially the same thing.

Gronze is a good resource for distances, albeit it is in Spanish but it translates pretty well in Google Chrome most of the time. I walked the Central route, but my understanding is that after Vila do Conde, the two routes are very similar, with very few differences in track alignment. So if you want to do the Littoral, you need to start in Porto, when you will follow it for a day or so until it re-joins the Coastal Route. From there to Vigo, it appears that there are variants that do stay closer to the coast, but whether these are distinct elements of the Littoral route or complementary route section on the Coastal route isn't clear, and probably doesn't matter that much anyway.

 

[Aayer]

Haven't you asked this question in another sub-forum already. It will only confuse those of us who want to help you to have two active threads on essentially the same thing.

Gronze is a good resource for distances, albeit it is in Spanish but it translates pretty well in Google Chrome most of the time. I walked the Central route, but my understanding is that after Vila do Conde, the two routes are very similar, with very few differences in track alignment. So if you want to do the Littoral, you need to start in Porto, when you will follow it for a day or so until it re-joins the Coastal Route. From there to Vigo, it appears that there are variants that do stay closer to the coast, but whether these are distinct elements of the Littoral route or complementary route section on the Coastal route isn't clear, and probably doesn't matter that much anyway.

yes the other one was deleted- i wasnt sure how that worked. thanks!