St. Primitive Way, Stage 07: Grandas de Salime - Fonsagrada (Camino Primitivo)
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- Distance
- 16.93 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,667 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,506 ft
- Max elevation
- 3,598 ft
- TrailRank
- 38
- Min elevation
- 1,851 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 6 hours 39 minutes
- Time
- 7 hours 52 minutes
- Coordinates
- 4764
- Uploaded
- August 7, 2021
- Recorded
- August 2021
near Grandas de Salime, Asturias (España)
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A longer stage today, of almost 28 km. The first part was a climb of almost 550 meters, up to El Acebo. This mountain top forms the border between Asturias and Galicië. Thus, we leave Asturias today and enter its neighbor province, the province of Santiago de Compostela!
It rains a bit today, making it harder to walk. Also, you cannot see very far from the mountaintops, which is a pity because under clear circumstances you have beautiful views from here.
There's not many bars along the way to have a drink and bite. At El Acebo there's one, for a real local experience with Galicians that are used to drink (much) every day. A few kilometers before the endpoint, there's a nice restaurant which serves traditional Galician food, but this is more for bigger meals, so it depends whether you want to continue walking the last kilometers with a full belly or not.
We sleep the coming nights in a small cottage on a camping. We're happy that we reserved our stays beforehand, because it's really difficult for pilgrims who did not reserve anything to find a place to stay each night. Sport centers are opened to accommodate people, but sometimes, they still need to sleep in a tent somewhere hidden (camping outside of campsites is forbidden here). We even heard of a woman that needed to sleep in the woods because of a lack of space! Luckily, the weather is getting better (read: dryer and warmer), but we are extra thankful for a nice bed and roof above our head every night!
It rains a bit today, making it harder to walk. Also, you cannot see very far from the mountaintops, which is a pity because under clear circumstances you have beautiful views from here.
There's not many bars along the way to have a drink and bite. At El Acebo there's one, for a real local experience with Galicians that are used to drink (much) every day. A few kilometers before the endpoint, there's a nice restaurant which serves traditional Galician food, but this is more for bigger meals, so it depends whether you want to continue walking the last kilometers with a full belly or not.
We sleep the coming nights in a small cottage on a camping. We're happy that we reserved our stays beforehand, because it's really difficult for pilgrims who did not reserve anything to find a place to stay each night. Sport centers are opened to accommodate people, but sometimes, they still need to sleep in a tent somewhere hidden (camping outside of campsites is forbidden here). We even heard of a woman that needed to sleep in the woods because of a lack of space! Luckily, the weather is getting better (read: dryer and warmer), but we are extra thankful for a nice bed and roof above our head every night!
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