I was going on El Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St James. This is a network of pilgrim routes that leads to the city of Santiago de Compostela in north-western Spain. The most popular route ...

But this was the real-life ending to my trip down the Camino de Santiago, a Catholic pilgrimage that was Medieval Europe’s answer to the Appalachian Trail. Today, believers make up a small ...

This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. During the summers of 2012 and 2013, I walked more than a thousand miles on the Camino de Santiago. Also called the Way of ...

Party-minded pilgrims are called to Camino Frances in northern Spain or Camino Portugues on the Iberian west coast. These offer manna from heaven as you approach Santiago de Compostela ...

The Camino de Santiago is featured on Time Out's list of the world's best hikes for 2025. When I set off on my first Camino, I too thought it was just a hike. I’d heard about it two years prior ...