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Camino routes that fit two weeks
Every route here earns the Compostela from a US vacation of 9 to 16 days, door to door. Not sure which one? The route selector picks it from six questions.
Camino Francés from Sarria6–7 walking days · 71 mi · 9 to 10 vacation daysSarria is where most first-timers start: the shortest walk that earns the Compostela, a direct train from Madrid, and a café in every village. The price is company: this is the busiest stretch of any Camino, so beds have to be booked early in 2027.Camino Portugués from Tui6–8 walking days · 74 mi · 9 to 11 vacation daysTui sits on the border with Portugal, an easy train ride from Porto airport. Six days of river valleys and old stone towns take you to Santiago, with fewer crowds than the Francés and the cheapest trip of any route in the book.Camino Inglés from Ferrol6 walking days · 70 mi · 9 vacation daysThe Camino Inglés is the quiet way to earn the Compostela in six days. Expect estuaries, eucalyptus and long stretches alone, two days of about 15 miles in the middle, and very few beds at Bruma, which you book first.Camino Francés from O Cebreiro8–10 walking days · 96 mi · 12 to 14 vacation daysStarting at O Cebreiro adds two days of mountain walking to the Sarria route, and many walkers call them the best of the trip. Getting up to the village takes planning: there is no train and only one direct bus a day.Camino Portugués Coastal from Baiona7–9 walking days · 79 mi · 10 to 12 vacation daysBaiona gives you two days by the Atlantic before the route turns inland at Redondela and joins the Central Portugués. Fly into Porto, book beach-town hotels early for July and August, and budget a day for crossing Vigo.Camino Primitivo from A Fonsagrada9 walking days · 96 mi · 13 vacation daysThe Primitivo's Galician half starts in the hills at A Fonsagrada and passes the Roman walls of Lugo before it joins the Francés at Melide. It gives you four quiet days, but the villages are small: book every bed as soon as you have flights.Camino Portugués Central from Porto13–16 walking days · 152 mi · 16 vacation daysFrom Porto the walk takes a full two-week vacation: a week of Portuguese vineyards and granite towns, the bridge into Spain at Tui, then the Galician river valleys. The metro from the airport makes it the easiest start of all.Camino Francés from Ponferrada11–13 walking days · 128 mi · 14 to 16 vacation daysPonferrada adds the Bierzo wine valley and the climb to O Cebreiro to the classic last week of the Francés, with a simple train from Madrid to the start. It is the most varied walk that fits a 14- to 16-day vacation.Santiago to Fisterra and Muxía6–7 walking days · 71 mi · 5 to 7 on top of your main route vacation daysFor centuries pilgrims have walked on from Santiago to the ocean. The add-on to Fisterra and Muxía takes six or seven more days, earns its own certificates instead of the Compostela, and ends at the cape at sunset.