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Welcome to Our Camino de San Salvador Blog

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Camino de San Salvador Blog Pilgrimage from Leon to Oviedo Welcome to our Camino de San Salvador Blog!  Over the span of 5 days in April and May we completed this 119 km pilgrimage route from Leon to Oviedo, Spain.  This wild, mountainous, stunningly beautiful walk was unlike any of the Caminos we've previously hiked, and we thoroughly enjoyed it.   We completed the trail after walking the Camino Madrid and spending two days on the Camino Frances, and before walking the Camino Primitivo from Oviedo to Santiago de Compostela.  Thank you for reading, and 'Buen Camino'! About the Camino de San Salvador   Day 1 -  Camino de San Salvador, Leon to La Robla  Day 2 -  Unseen Blessings in the Cathedral of Nature, La Robla to Poladura de la Tercia  Day 3 -  Tale of Two Trails (and Heartbreak), Poladura de la Tercia to LLanos de Someron Day 4 -  Rumour, Expectations and Reality, Llanos de Someron to Pola de Lena  Day 5 -  Ac...

Blessings in the Cathedral of Nature : La Robla to Poladura de la Tercia

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Blessings in the Cathedral of Nature Camino de San Salvador We got up around 6:30 AM, made a quick breakfast in our room consisting of instant coffee and croissants that were unexpectedly filled with chocolate, and set off.  We followed the sidewalk to the edge of town, where we passed under a Roman aqueduct, which I would have mistaken for a stone gateway or bridge if there hadn't been a sign indicating otherwise. Puente de Alba Almost before we knew it, a shady sidewalk that ran beside a treed river corridor brought us to the town of Puente de Alba.  There we began a pleasant if unremarkable walk along what felt like a transit corridor.  We were walking beside the river, along the highway, and adjacent to the train tracks, down which trains passed relatively frequently.  Around us, the mountains rose like tall rocky peaks. We walked along through the crisp morning air until we reached the Sanctuario del Buen Suceso, where we found a peaceful field stone church on t...