At the Cruz de Ferro above Foncebadon at dawn, where pilgrims leave a stone or prayer as a symbol of their journey
ManjarÃn, home to Hospitalero Tomas, a modern Knights Templar who helps serves pilgrims traveling the mountain pass on the day we reached the highest altitude of the entire Camino!
Cows.
We are now in the final week of Camino! It's been a difficult week in a lot of ways, with long, hot, trying days as we went from Astorga to Villafranca. The last two days have been really beautiful though, with lots of mountain views as we move into the rainier, more hilly terrain of Galicia, the last region of our journey. Today we climbed up to the mountain village of O Cebreiro to stunning views. It was a very empowering walk! Tomorrow we're taking a detour to Samos, another monastery (hehehe I love monks so much) before we enter the last 100K to Santiago!
Me playing on the river at Molinaseca on the hot, buggy walk to ponferrada:
Knights Templar castle in beautiful Ponferrada:
Here's a great vegetarian pie I ate:
Saracen Castle ruins:
Delicious vegetarian meal at restful Las Herrarias:
And finally, up on the mountain top today!
And it rained today for the first time the whole trip since Roncesvalles, one month ago!
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