Self-Guided Galicia - The Lighthouse Way

After arriving in Malpica de Bergantinos and checking into your hotel, we recommend spending sometime exploring this colourful old fishing village and trying the fresh catch of the day for dinner.

Private transfers are available from Santiago Airport (SCQ) or Coruna Airport (LCG). Please contact our self-guided team for further information. Stay: Pazo Do Souto (Simple)

Today start your first walk along the Camino dos Faros or Lighthouse Way. Starting at the hotel follow gravel roads and small, sometimes uneven and exposed foot paths along the coast, passing a beach, a chapel and the Sisargas islands. The route ends at the doorstep of your rural and seaside hotel near Barizo. Tonight you can either dine at the hotel or perhaps try restaurant As Garzas next door awarded with 1 Michelin star in 2018 (but remember to book in advance. Dinner is not included today.

Today's 13 kilometre walk is expected to take around five hours with 430 metres of ascent and 420 metres of descent. Stay: Hotel Rural Casa da Vasca (Comfortable) (B)

Today you walk first to Punta Nariga, and one of the most famous lighthouses of the Costa da Morte. On a clear day, you will have great views both of the coastline and over to the uninhabited Sisargas Islands a mile off the coast. After the lighthouse, continue to the beautiful beach of Ninons, where you can order a taxi back to the hotel or start the return route along gravel roads that give access to a modern windmill park.

Today's 16 kilometre walk is expected to take around six hours with 720 metres of ascent and 720 metres of descent. If you take a taxi back from Ninons beach, it is shortened to 13 kilometres and 445 metres of ascent and 455 metres of descent. Stay: Hotel Rural Casa da Vasca (Comfortable) (B)

This morning a taxi will take you to the tiny hamlet of Roncudo. From there you follow the Camiño along winding footpaths to the cape O Roncudo after which there is a three kilometre tarmac lane which takes you to the fishermen's village of O Corme. After a coffee break at O Corme choose between the long spectacular Camino along the coast with some exposed parts, or a shorter, higher route through shady woods before you reach the extensive sand plateau that separates the river mouth of Ponteceso from the Atlantic Ocean. Finally, walk a long stretch of sandy trail to Ponteceso. From Ponteceso a taxi will take you to your hotel in Laxe. Today's 18 kilometre walk is expected to take around six and a half hours with 545 metres of ascent and 645 metres of descent. 23 Stay: Hotel Vida Mar de Laxe (Comfortable) (B)

Starting from the hotel, walk around the cape north of Laxe and along Monte Insua until to reach Praia das Cristales - a beach sparkling with eroded glass stones that reflect in the sunlight. Continue along the coast to Camelle beach, a small coastal village of coloured houses. Here you can paddle, or swim if the conditions are right, before returning to Laxe by taxis.

Today's optional 15 kilometre walk is expected to take around five hours with 250 metres of ascent and descent. Stay: Hotel Vida Mar de Laxe (Comfortable) (B)

Today a truly wild scenery awaits, as you descend and cross a chain of small beaches called Praias deTrece. You finally reach the Cemetry of the English; a symbolic burial place to honour the lives of sailors and passengers that died in three ship wrecks happened in this coast between 1883 and 1893. The last kilometres are easy as you hike along a gravel road for a while (taking some shortcuts close to the coast at times) before you head into the woods and walk to the doorstep of your cosy rural hotel Do Cotariño where you will also have dinner tonight.

Today's optional 14 kilometre walk is expected to take around five to six hours with 415 metres of ascent and 375 metres of descent. Stay: Hotel Rustica Do Cotarino (Comfortable) (B/D)

As you walk back to the coast from Mourin, you see the dramatic location of the most imposing lighthouse on the route: the Cabo Vilan, also the first electrified lighthouse of Spain. You can visit the house (now it holds a visitors' centre and cafe) before you continue along the coast, past a modern fish factory and a chapel located on a hilltop above Camarinas. Todays' route is relatively short, which allows you to have a longer lunch at restaurant Arnelo in Camarinas. The traditional village architecture has suffered from modernity, but it houses a small museum dedicated to the typical handcrafted lace of Camarinas. After lunch walk back to Do Cotarino or order a taxi when it is time to return for dinner.

Today's optional 13 kilometre walk is expected to take around four hours with 335 metres of ascent and descent. Stay: Hotel Rustica Do Cotarino (Comfortable) (B/D)

After breakfast, a taxi will take you to Vimianzo where this trip ends. From Vimianzo you can take a bus to either Coruna or to Santiago. Private transfers are available to Santiago Airport (SCQ) or Coruna Airport (LCG). Please contact our self-guided team for further information. (B)