Camping

[Kaz]

Hi
My names Kaz and Im planning to do the route next year, I would like to ask, has anyone camped the route and if so would you recommend it, what was the max weight you carried and are camp sites an option or was it wild camping.

[John Hussey]

Which Camino route? What time of year?

If the Frances route, the Way most traveled, camping is not done much at all as the albergues are frequent, quite nicely done and relatively inexpensive. Plus, part of the Camino experience, and some would say a huge part of it, begins to take place at the albergues, which is the interaction between yourself and those kindred spirits you will meet along the Way as all of you walk towards Santiago and perhaps on to Finisterre and Muxia on the Atlantic ocean. If you camp, you will lose part of the experience.

Remember, the journey is the destination!

[Pavel]

Wild camping is a kind of Czech sport Most of the pilgrims from my country I met in the Camino camped about every other night. From other nations, very few people camped regularly.

I camped just three times - near Logrono, when I wanted just to experience it, in Burgos, when I had to choose one of full sports hall and empty albergue yard and in Finisterre. In my opinion, combination of sleeping in albergues and (wild) camping is the best.