Soft Adventure
Finding the Good Way on the
Camino de Santiago By Debbie Olsen
Whatever your reasons for undertaking this legendary pilgrimage, the journey will change you. You can tell you’re about to undertake an epic journey when someone asks you the one-word question: why? On the eve of a six-day trek on Spain’s legendary Camino Francés pilgrimage route, our G Adventures guide, Lalo Garcia, gathers our trekking group together. After a round of introductions, he asks each of us to share why we are undertaking the journey. For centuries, people have been walking to Santiago de Compostela to visit the ornate cathedral where the remains of the apostle St. James the Greater are believed to be interred. In ancient times, the Catholic Church considered the Camino de Santiago one of three key pilgrimages – alongside Rome and Jerusalem. Today, the pilgrimage route is as popular with tourists as it is with religious enthusiasts.
