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Starting Via de la Plata from Malaga

Kevin Considine

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2021
i am planning to start from Seville and am flying into Malaga 5 May. Is it worth it to start in Malaga? Any suggestions?

Thanks
 
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i am planning to start from Seville and am flying into Malaga 5 May. Is it worth it to start in Malaga? Any suggestions?

Thanks
Hola, Kevin,

Starting in Malaga would mean that you walk Camino Mozarabe to Merida where it connects with Via de la Plata. Other "official" starting points of Camino Mozarabe are Jaen, Alcaudete and Granada:
http://www.rayyrosa.com/loscaminos

Otherwise search though Camino Mozarabe subforum or:
http://www.mundicamino.com/los-caminos/47/camino-mozarabe/

Anyway Buen Camino!
 
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Beginning in Malaga is not the VDLP.
I began walking that route last year and really didn't enjoy it.
I stopped after about a week because all there was for miles and miles were miles and miles of olive groves.
No shade. No water. No people. No nothing.
Just olive groves.
I got bored . . .
But if you love solitude - a good route for that!
 
Are you talking about the Vdlp or Mozarabe being boring?

QUOTE="Anniesantiago, post: 509341, member: 3502"]Beginning in Malaga is not the VDLP.
I began walking that route last year and really didn't enjoy it.
I stopped after about a week because all there was for miles and miles were miles and miles of olive groves.
No shade. No water. No people. No nothing.
Just olive groves.
I got bored . . .
But if you love solitude - a good route for that![/QUOTE]
 
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Let me know how you get on, I'm planning on doing this in March next year, and boy do I have a lot of questions.
 
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Magwood made a weblog about her walk from Malaga and I got the impression that it is not boring.

https://magwood.me/my-caminos/camino-mozarabe/

Only you must be prepared on meeting not so many other pilgrims.

Indeed you will see some olives in the first days but always with changing backgrounds of hills and mountains.

Last year I walked from Almeria to Merida so I joined the Malaga route in Baena.

Especially Cordoba to Merida was through an amazing dehesa landscape.

Yes, every Camino has some boring parts, wherever you start.

The Camino is different from French and British long distance paths that avoid big cities and long straight roads.

From Sevilla there are also long stredges without shade. The only solution is to walk in the spring or the autumn and avoid the summer heat.
 
The Camino Mozarabe starting Malaga was my first Camino in 2008 and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It joins the VdlP in Merida.
 
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Hola Kevin - you can easily travel from Malaga to Sevilla to start the Via de la Plata which I've walked several times. More recently I've been exploring the Camino Mozárabe and I've walked to Merida twice on this route and both times there were other pilgrims around. I find this route really charming - great scenery, very good walking and very friendly and helpful local people. Good luck deciding!
 
Magwood made a weblog about her walk from Malaga and I got the impression that it is not boring.

https://magwood.me/my-caminos/camino-mozarabe/

Only you must be prepared on meeting not so many other pilgrims.

Indeed you will see some olives in the first days but always with changing backgrounds of hills and mountains.

Last year I walked from Almeria to Merida so I joined the Malaga route in Baena.

Especially Cordoba to Merida was through an amazing dehesa landscape.

Yes, every Camino has some boring parts, wherever you start.

The Camino is different from French and British long distance paths that avoid big cities and long straight roads.

From Sevilla there are also long stredges without shade. The only solution is to walk in the spring or the autumn and avoid the summer heat.
Thank you Carel5. Based on your comments and Magwood's I would have started from Malaga but in the past few days my first Camino friend reached out and will be in Seville so I think The Camino spirit wants me to start there.
 
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Hi Annie,
I was Maggie's walking partner from Malaga to Merida, I can't say I found Malaga to Merida boring, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but there a lot of olives for sure.
Regards
George
 

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