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Make a small donation and you can download the full Walking Guide to the Camino de Santiago AND our comprehensive guide to preparing for the Camino.

You'll also be helping to ensure that the basic guide is kept up-to-date and can still be given to pilgrims for free. Read more about the full guide below.

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When you donate you get...

You can download a PDF copy of the full Walking Guide to the Camino de Santiago. It contains the following information:

• Urban maps of towns and cities and detailed maps of the Camino in rural areas
• Lots of information about historic sites along the Camino's route
• Camino legends and a description of the fascinating history of the Camino and the places it passes through
• Recommendations of great places to eat and unmissable local specialities
• Translations of place names of villages and towns
• The dates of local festivals, the famous Spanish fiestas

For your donation you'll also get a .gpx file with tracks for the entire Camino compatible with the open source offline mapping app Organic Maps on Android and iPhone smartphones. They also work on Google Earth on a smartphone or a desktop computer. It shows you where you are in relation to the Camino at all times. See the images below.

It can zoom in to show street-level detail.

Practical Preparation and Background

As well as that you can download a PDF copy of our definitive guide to preparing for the Camino. It hasn't been updated since 2021 but the information is still relevant (just ignore any mentions of COVID).

You'll get the following.

• Packing: what to bring and (all importantly) what not to bring
• Health and safety: how to avoid, or if necessary, deal with blisters, bedbugs, heatstroke and other hazards
• What to expect on “the Way”: What's a typical Camino day?
• Communicating: with useful words and phrases in Spanish?
• History of the Camino and of Spain: what was the Camino like in the middle ages?

To download a sample of our comprehensive guide to preparing for the Camino, just click here!