MarcoPolo616
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2018 Camino Portugues (Valença to Santiago)
2019 (planned) Santiago- Finisterre-Muxia
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Thank you for your reply. The wine sounds like a great idea. We will be sure to take a bottle up to the Faro.Marco, my wife and I walked back after watching the sunset at the end of April last year. It was a great experience to watch the sun go down whilst sipping a glass of wine. It just seem a fitting end to our Camino. The walk back into town was fine, there were not many cars on the road and their were a few other walkers making their was back into town.
Thank you for your response. Yes, I remember only too well on last year’s Camino falling asleep every night before the sun went down. Staying up late was primarily the reason to stay two nights in Fisterra before heading on toward Muxia.Even after the sun officially sets you'll still have some ambient light, and the walk takes about 40 minutes (and it will be mostly downhill from the Cabo) so you should be fine. If you're coming in the summer, you may already know that the sun doesn't set here until something like 11pm - so you may feel like going to sleep before the sun does! Enjoy and Buen Camino
How do you do this? Where in Finisterre do you start?PS: suggest going TO the lighthouse over the top rather than via the road - in the light
Thank you!Just using Windy Maps (which is a super brilliant map app - so helpful on my walk from Seville) there are a few little walking tracks over the top. Google maps doesnt show the walking routes as Windy Maps does - it is SO good!
Head up a street called 'Camino Insua' and you will find a walking route, just follow that. Would be hard to get lost as the sea is on either side and only one way to get to the point. It definitely worth it.
Megg
Thank you for you comments and suggestions Megg. I will definely plan to walk over the top to the lighthouse and take the road back. Did you ever make it to the Mar dePS: suggest going TO the lighthouse over the top rather than via the road - in the light. It is an easy walk with a bit if uphill but not hard. Several reasons to do it. Coming towards Faro you get an amazing view over the point not possible from the road. You can visit the Pedras Santa's at the top...amazing Holy Stones that gently ' rock' but won't be moved by force.
And I also visited the Hermitage San William - was a diversion off to the side. Ancient sacred site.
Worth the slightly longer walk.
Megg
Yes I did! Twice in fact. I went via that beach on the way over the top to Faro but I had the pleasure of being taken there the evening before by the 2 Hospitelieros at Albergue San Roque. I was the only pilgrim in the Albergue that evening and as we were doing the dishes they suddenly said let's go and see the sunset. So we got in the car and he drove us to that beach.Thank you for you comments and suggestions Megg. I will definely plan to walk over the top to the lighthouse and take the road back. Did you ever make it to the Mar de
Fora beach on the other side of the Peninsula?
I was just going through some of my pictures from last year's Camino and I thought that I'd show what it looks like approaching the lighthouse by walking over the top.Just using Windy Maps (which is a super brilliant map app - so helpful on my walk from Seville) there are a few little walking tracks over the top. Google maps doesnt show the walking routes as Windy Maps does - it is SO good!
Head up a street called 'Camino Insua' and you will find a walking route, just follow that. Would be hard to get lost as the sea is on either side and only one way to get to the point. It definitely worth it.
Megg
That looks fantastic @trecileI was just going through some of my pictures from last year's Camino and I thought that I'd show what it looks like approaching the lighthouse by walking over the top.
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Yes, that's how I got there.@tangata hikoi says you can get on the trail from the street Insua in Finisterre, is that how you did it?
Well, the last time I was in Finisterre I was foiled in my attempt to get to this alternate route. I had some wikiloc tracks, and they took me past a house and to an ominous looking sign that said paso prohibido. There were some people sitting outside the house and I asked about the trail to San Guillerme and they warned me not to go that way.Yes, that's how I got there.
No, it didn't go to Ermita de San Guillerme and I didn't know anything about Pedras Santas, só I don't know if it did or not.Light bulb - @trecile, the route you walked didn’t go to the ruins of the Ermita de San Guillerme but did go to the Pedras Santas, right?
My favourite way of seeing the sunset. Lovely cruise, wine and food good. excellent boat run by people who know their business. Enjoy. Samarkand.If you are in Finesterre for more than one night take one of the sunset cruises! I think it was only about 12€, and included some food and wine.
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Here are a couple of other pictures from that day
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