The Camino Portugués: A 10-Day Pilgrimage from Porto to Santiago

It’s a nice hostel in the town with a beautiful small garden, where you wIll already meet other pilgrims. It costs 15€ in shared dorm and they have the first pilgrim stamp for your pass. You can walk in 10-15 minutes to the river, where you can see the beautiful and historical bridges. It is a very nice viewpoint beside the river, when you go up the mountain, you can go for a walk, make a small picnic with a portwine and watch the beautiful ships. A typical meal there is the Francesinha, which we didn’t really enjoyed because it is a sandwich with a lot of different meat types and cheese. After a long search, we decided on a restaurant by the river, which is always very busy but the view is very nice. There are all a kind of similar and quite expensive. 

It’s an example for the amazing beaches beside the trail. The hostel has shared dorms for pilgrims and you can cook something or visit a restaurant. We didn’t book before and just asked for a bed after the arrival. Then you can stop earlier spontaneously and change the route if you need a break or found a nice place. 

Here we cooked pasta with vegetables for ourselves and went in the evening to the beach with a beer. They have small shops almost everywhere to get everything you need. We met there other people and talked about the routes and experiences. We planned every day 25-30 km because we had only 10 days but we would recommend not to to more than 20-25 km per day because it’s nice to have more time to connect with other people, to relax and explore the small towns.