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Camino Portuguese Pilgrimage Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela  The Camino Portuguese, stretching from Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela, is a beautiful and culturally rich pilgrimage trail that offers hikers a chance to connect with nature, history, and spirituality. This route is less crowded than the Camino Francés and takes you through charming Portuguese towns, lush landscapes, and historic sites before crossing into Spain. En route, you will have the chance to visit Fatima, Tomar, Coimbra, and Porto.  As you walk, you'll be surrounded by the peaceful rhythm of rural life and the sounds of nature, making it a perfect choice for those seeking a more tranquil journey. We walked this pilgrimage trail over the span of 32 days in April and May.  I am a naturalist and bird lover, and Sean is a landscape photographer.  Together we walked, photographed, and blogged the pilgrimage route, and it was unlike any of the pilgrimage trails we've previously experienced.  A...
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Pilgrimage on the Camino Portuguese

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Pilgrimage on the Camino Portuguese

Lisbon to Santiago de Compostela


Well in just two weeks Sean and I plan to be back on The Way of St. James.  This time, however, we plan to trek 628 km north through Portugal on the Camino Portuguese from Lisbon to Santiago.  In addition, we hope to (finally) get the opportunity to hike the 114 km to Muxia and Finisterre! 

Camino Portuguese backpack pilgrim patch.

In 2016 we were privileged enough to be able to walk the entire Camino Frances from St. Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago de Compostella.  Just a few months afterwards in the spring of 2017 we again ventured back and undertook the Via Podiensis / GR65 across France from Le Puy to St. Jean-Pied-de-Port.

The notion of returning to the Camino has been in our heads since the day we concluded our original pilgrimage in October 2016.  Sitting in the public square with our Camino family and friends whom we had come to know so well over the course of the previous month got each of us wondering about what other similar routes were out there.  The availability of the gift and bookshop in the Santiago Cathedral did little to dissuade us.  By the end of our second evening in Santiago we had books on the pilgrim routes to Muxia, Finisterre, the Northern Caminos, the Chemin de Le Puy, the Chemin d’Arles, and of course the Portuguese Camino. 

At the time, other pilgrims around us suggested that the Camino Portuguese was beautiful, less busy, and admittedly a little less developed for hikers en route to Santiago.  From what we have heard, read, and watched online throughout the last few weeks the Camino Portuguese appears to be a very different but exciting experience from either of our previous two Caminos.  Although we did not expect to be back on the path to St. James at this point (as we are on the edge of another adventure soon), the opportunity to reconnect with the Camino was too much to pass up.  We are excited to begin this journey anew.  Though a little nervous as we have had little time to plan or prepare for it.  This means we will essentially be learning about the route as we read about it on the airplane and as we trek along the route.


In the coming weeks, we will book our flights, draft out our plans and establish a rough itinerary as well as reserving accommodations in some of the busier towns along the route. 

We will also be posting a few short blog entries on what a Camino is, what it is like to sleep and eat on a Camino, what the route and waymarking are traditionally like, what our reasons have been in the past and what they are right now for again trekking along the Way of St. James, and what our advice for equipment choices is, and what equipment we will be taking with us.








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