Best of the Spanish Camino
October 19 – 31, 2025
The Camino de Santiago, or Compostela Trail, has for centuries represented an important pilgrimage route from France, across the Pyrenees and the north of Spain to the tomb of St James in Santiago de Compostela. Following the most interesting sections from Roncesvalles in Spain through famous pilgrimage cities such as Leon and Pamplona, the landscapes change daily from mountain trails to forests and open plains.
With the camaraderie of a small group and local guide, the trip is fully supported throughout. At night stay in atmospheric towns in a selection of hand picked hotels where the local flavours are introduced by your hosts. This carefully crafted itinerary is a firm favourite with our travellers who are always impressed with the quality of extra touches which make this trip so special.
Itinerary
- Day 1: Arrive Bilbao, meet your guide and transfer to Roncesvalles
- Day 2: Pyrenees walk to Alto del Erro (4-5hrs), transfer to Pamplona
- Day 3: Camino walk including Puente la Reina (4-5hrs), transfer to Logroño
- Day 4: Visit Laguardia, walk Montes de Oca to San Juan de Ortega (3-4hrs), overnight Burgos
- Day 5: Walk from Castrojeriz to Fromista (4hrs), transfer to Carrion de los Condes
- Day 6: Walk along the Castile landscape (3hrs) and transfer to Leon
- Day 7: Walk from Hospital de Orbigo to Astorga (3hrs)
- Day 8: Walk from Cruz de Ferro to Molinaseca (4hrs), visit Villafranca, transfer to Hererrías
- Day 9: Visit O Cebreiro, walk to Triacastela (4hrs), Samos Monastery and on to Sarria
- Day 10: Walk to Portomarin (5hrs), transfer to Arzúa
- Day 11: Walk the last stage of the Camino from Lavacolla to Santiago (3hrs)
- Day 12: Morning tour in Santiago, afternoon visit to Cape Finisterre and farewell dinner
- Day 13: Trip concludes
Meet your RCGS Ambassador
Marina Jimenez
Marina Jimenez is a communications consultant, travel writer, RCGS Fellow and former journalist who has filed stories from around the world, including from Pakistan, Jordan, the Middle East, the Philippines, as well as throughout Latin America. She has worked for six newsrooms in three provinces including stints as an editorial writer at The Globe and Mail, foreign writer for the Toronto Star, and on-air reporter for CBC Alberta News. She is the recipient of two Gold National Magazine Awards, and a National Newspaper Award for her work on the immigration beat. In 2009/10, was a Southam Journalism Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto.
Following her career in journalism, Marina worked for five years for the University of Toronto; in May, 2022, she accepted a new role as Communications Director at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UHN and Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation.
A Fellow of the RCGS, she has travelled by sea with the RCGS in the Eastern Arctic and Atlantic Canada, including Sable Island, as well as to Panama and Costa Rica. She recently wrote several articles on Florida for Canadian Geographic.
With a lifelong love of travel, Marina believes everyone benefits the change in perspective, alternate sense of place and creativity that flow from travelling and experiencing other cultures and destinations.
She has visited all of Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories and counts among her most delightful memories: Fogo Island, Newfoundland, for its rugged beauty and unique culture, Devon Island, for its stunning solitude and vistas, and the spectacular hikes and trails in Lake Louise, Alberta. Global highlights include: hiking through Peru’s Sacred Valley; the amazing creatures including blue-footed boobies found on the Galapagos Islands; and the timeless countryside in Tuscany, Italy.
