At last, your travels bring you to Ribadeo, the starting point of this stage of the Camino del Norte. Check in at your hotel, and enjoy the rest of the evening exploring the town, resting and getting into the mood and spirit for your upcoming Camino!

This moderately difficult, but truly picturesque stretch of the Camino, you will start enjoying the lush, Glaician hilly countryside. As this stage is rather short, take your time to rest in the villages along the way and to soak up the beauty and the peace and quiet of the landscape.

Distance: 19.2 km. (12 mi.) | Difficulty: Moderate

Today’s journey is also a short one, and terrain is pleasantly easy to walk. Spend the afternoon and evening exploring and enjoying the beautiful town Mondoñedo with its medieval old town and cathedral.

Distance: 18.4 km. (11.4 mi.) | Difficulty: Easy

As you leave Mondañedo, the Camino splits into two options: we recommend the left one, passing through towns of O Villar and Lousada. Today’s ascent on this stretch will result to be more gradual. The other option, to the right, takes you through secluded hinterland terrains and it does not cross any towns. Both ways meet again at Gontán, just before reaching today’s destination of As Paredes.

Distance: 23.6 km. (14.7 mi.) | Difficulty: Easy

Today’s journey is pleasant both for walking as well as for sight-seeing, with a continuous and harmonious interchange of fields and forest patches, and with occasional villages providing lovely options to stop and rest.

Distance: 15 km. (9.3 mi.) | Difficulty: Easy

You will leave Vilalba, the last major town for the next few days, and make a pilgrimage on a fairly flat and scenic route via the Das Cruces variant to A Pobra de Parga.

Distance: 25.5 km. (15.9 mi.) | Difficulty: Easy

On small roads, the path sometimes passes through an extraordinarily beautiful and contemplative area until Sobrado dos Monxes, with the imposing Monasterio de Santa María de Sobrado.

Distance: 23 km. (14.3 mi.) | Difficulty: Moderate

Today, you will be able to enjoy the quietness of the Camino del Norte for one last time. The way takes you through the lonely parts of a landscape with small hills until it eventually brings you to today’s destination, Arzúa ̶ the busy, bustling town that also demarcates the point of where the Camino del Norte flows into the Camino Francés. You will immediately sense that, as you will see large numbers of pilgrims everywhere, which will be an unusual site to your eyes.

Distance: 22.3 km. (13.9 mi.) | Difficulty: Easy

Beyond Arzúa, the Camino plunges backs into the pleasant, peaceful Galician scenery. It is an easy walking day, and you will spend most of the rest of in on forest paths with occasional villages and patches of lush green grasslands in-between. The fragrance of eucalyptus will have become as familiar to your senses as the sight of these pretty trees’ tall and straight trunks. After the serenity of the forest, the atmosphere in the bustling little town of O Pedrouzo may seem a bit too busy, but it’s also worth enjoying it, as all the pilgrims are tingling with restlessness before the last Camino stage tomorrow.

Distance: 18.6 km. (11.6 mi.) | Difficulty: Easy

The Camino has yet just the perfect amount of beautiful scenery, peacefulness and calmness in store for you as you plunge into a beautiful eucalyptus forest right outside O Pedrouzo. As you pass a couple of villages, eucalyptus gives way to conifers, and you will find yourself walking alongside the Airport of Santiago – the feeling of reaching the journey’s end and the impending departure for home is often sensed quite strongly here. Walk up to the top of the Monte do Gozo – the Mount of Joy – and you will behold Santiago de Compostela for the first time! Let the Camino guide you, one last time, into the heart of this magical City. Congratulations, dear Pilgrim: You. Have. Arrived. Celebrate, and enjoy!

Distance: 21.2 km. (13.2 mi.) | Difficulty: Easy

We strongly feel that, after this amazing journey, it is instrumental to spend (at least!) one full, extra day and another night in Santiago, which is why it is added in our program “by default” (though you can opt out of it). This is both the time and the place to unwind, to reflect upon and enjoy your journey’s end and, most importantly, to take it easy on yourself with your post-Camino re-entry into the big, wide World. Aside from that, UNESCO-listed city of Santiago is full of incredible places to explore, and you can collect your very well-earned Compostela (Certificate of Completion) as well as attend the Pilgrims’ Mass at the Cathedral.

Farewell, Santiago; farewell, Camino – and sage travels on your journey back home or to your next adventure! And here is another option well-worth considering: to continue the Camino on to Finisterre (the “End of the World”) and / or to Muxía – two stunning, mystical places on the majestic Atlantic coast.

¡Buen Camino!