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Camino Frances part 2 – from Burgos to Santiago de Compostela
Camino Frances is the most popular and famous trail of the Camino de Santiago. I went on a pilgrimage at the turn of August and September 2021. I wrote about the initial stage of Camino Frances from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Burgos and the journey to Camino Frances from Poland in my previous post here. After a few months from Camino, after rest and integration of what happened on the trail, I come back with a description of the rest of the trail: the road from Burgos to Santiago de Compostela. After two weeks on the trail, I move on, about 510 kilometers to my destination. Burgos – León – a path…
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Camino Francés – Camino de Santiago route description
Camino Frances is the most popular variant of the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. The route begins in the French Pyrenees in the town of Saint-Jean-Pied-De-Port (SJPDP). The length of the route to Santiago de Compostela is approximately 779 kilometers (the official distance is given by the Pilgrim’s Office in Santiago, for the remaining distances I am based on the distances provided on the gronze.com website). Camino Frances runs through 4 provinces of Spain: Navarre, La Rioja, Castile and Leon and Galicia, where Santiago de Compostela is located. Each region is distinguished by something different. In Navarre, with its capital Pamplona, the route passes through beautiful mountains and forests.…
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Madrid – what to see in Madrid
Madrid – the bustling capital of Spain, and which I totally fell in love with. It is not without reason that there is a saying “Life as in Madrid”. It is said that these are cities that never fall asleep. Any time is good to visit Madrid. I went here in the middle of summer, initially for a week, and stayed for over a month, which allowed me to get to know the city and the surrounding area quite well. In summer, it is hot and dry during the day, and the sun burns the skin. However, shelter can be sought in numerous museums and parks or narrow streets that…
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Peñalara – the highest peak in the vicinity of Madrid. Sierra de Guadarrama
Peñalara is the highest peak in the vicinity of Madrid. It is located in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range and measures 2428m above seam. In Spain there are plenty of mountain ranges and peaks easily accessible to tourists. The Guadarrama range is only 1.5 hours away by bus or 1 hour by car from Madrid. I went on the trail by road from the Puerto de Cotos stop, going through the summit to the laguna de los Pájaros lake, and then by the road at the laguna de Claveles and Peñalara lakes. The whole route is about 13 kilometers, and the sum of the hills is about 675m. I…
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Fisterra y Muxía – extension of the Camino de Santiago
Fisterra y Muxía (Finisterre and Mugía) are two towns on the Atlantic Ocean west of Santiago de Compostela. Both cities are located on the Costa da Morte (Coast of Death)). This is quite a popular way to extend the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. The most popular target is Finisterra,whose name means End of Earth. The road to both Muxia and Fisterra begins in Santiago de Compostela. For 2 days, the pilgrimage runs along the common Route Camino de Finisterra. It is only on the 3rd day that we get to the fork in Fisterra or Muxia. I chose the option to get to Muxia first and then to get to…
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Tour du Mont Blanc – what is the cost, what to bring to TMB?
Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB), a several-day trekking around the Mont Blanc massif. The route leads through 3 countries – Italy, France and Switzerland, has about 170 kilometers, and the sum of elevations reaches 10,000m. I described the whole expedition from August 2020 and the route in this post. There you will find descriptions of individual days, accommodation and prices of campsites. To write this post I was inspired by the questions, what to take with you? How to prepare for such a 10-day trekking? What tent to take? How heavy was my backpack? Practical advice Tour du Mont Blanc is a multi-day trekking. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare…
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Anaga Park and Punta de Hidalgo – Trekking in Tenerife
Anaga Park is a wonderful landscape area located in the north-east of Tenerife. It is an incredibly diverse and green place. Due to their location in the north of the island, the mountains retain heated evaporating water from the Atlantic Ocean, which accumulates in the mountains. Hence the heavy rainfall and wonderful greenery on the island! In addition, the Park has the largest number of endemic plant species per square kilometer in Europe. There is a lot to know 🙂 I just spent the first days in Tenerife visiting the Anaga Park. The starting point for trekking was the town of Punta de Hidalgo,which we can reach by bus 105…
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Tenerife – what to see, practical information
Tenerife is the largest island in the Canary Islands archipelago, located in the Atlantic Ocean. It is here that the highest peak in Spain – Teide – a volcano measuring 3718m above sea level is located. The island is inhabited by about 900,000 people, and before the pandemic up to 17 million tourists came here every year! The island is quite large, but it’s hard for me to imagine such a number of people on an Atlantic island. Tenerife attracts tourists with its stable weather – almost all year round it is 20-22 degrees, and diversity (about which below). I went to Tenerife for the first time in November 2014,…
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Masca – trekking through the Barranco de Masca in Tenerife
Barranco de Masca, or Masca Gorge and the town of Masca is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Tenerife. Or at least it was until it closed in 2018. Up to 800,000 tourists came here every year, making it the second most popular attraction, right after Mount Teide. The gorge was formerly a place used by pirates as a hiding place. Amazing views await us in the Mask. High walls, narrow passages and a beautiful beach at the end of the route. The Masca Gorge, after more than 3 years of closure, was reopened to tourists on March 27, 2021. The gorge was closed due to a large…
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Teide without a permit – sunrise, road from the Parking Montaña Blanca
Teide is a volcano located on the Spanish island of Tenerife located in the Atlantic Ocean. It is 3718m above sea level and is the highest peak in Spain. We go to the top of Teide by road from the Montaña Blanca parking. This is the most popular trail to the top. It leads through the Refugio de Altavista shelter, which is currently closed. Parking is public and you can leave your car there for the night. Is it possible to climb Mount Teide without permission or not? Although officially you can only climb to the top of Mount Teide with a special permit. Only 200 people can reach the…
