"The Camino Mozárabe 250 Miles, Granada... " a Granada Travel Page by into-thin-air

“The Camino Mozárabe” is a slightly lesser known, but never-the-less very well way-marked and at 406 kilometers (250 miles) long a fair length route to walk. We chose to break the Camino down into 17 manageable stages, However this still left two long days, one just over 40k and one just under, but there is little option of splitting these long days so the only thing to do is to make sure that you at least follow them with shorter ones !!
The “The Camino Mozárabe” starts of an the ancient Moorish stronghold of Granada, then heads over the mountains through Cordoba and eventually joining “The Via de la Plata” In Merida where the route continues to Santiago de Compostela.
The route follows a mixture of quiet roads and Good Camino de Tierra’s, it also fords quite a few rivers, so make sure you pack a pair of sandals for this, Especially if, Like me you are walking in the Camino in the Spring.
(As I had previously walked the Via de la Plata from Seville to Santiago which passed through Merida in 2004, This was the end of my route)
This was the latest of nine Camino’s that I have now been fortunate enough to walk and I can give it the best of recommendations to anyone wishing to get out into the “Real” Spain.

One of the beauties of walking these old “Ways” is the diversity of the people that you meet along the route, Many different nationalities with different backgrounds and all with varying personal reasons for completing the route, Some do it for religious reasons, but increasingly, like myself, many walk the routes purely as a way of seeing a very different Spain to the one experienced my most visitors there. A good example of this being the mountain village of Moclin, at 1301m it is almost as high as Ben Nevis (the highest point in the UK), A Beautiful little village with an amazing Moorish castle towering over it. I would think that very few “Foreign” people would ever stumble across this gem unless they were also walking the route or Very Lost in their hire car !!

However as this isn’t one of the major routes, unfortunately there are few facilities en-route for the Perigrino, No Refugios so it does tend to be quite an expensive Camino as you have to stay in Hotels / Hostals.
But don’t let that put you off as this really is a Beautiful route passing through diverse countryside with many interesting sites to see on the “Way” including a host of Moorish Castles, Some Beautiful Iglasia’s and Cathedrals as well as ancient Puentes and the famous Roman remains in Merida

My walking companions for this Camino were again Birgit (bijo69 for the 1st week as far as Cordoba) and Mike for the next 12 days to Merida.
I also posted an invitation on the net for anyone else who fancied joining us and another guy, Patrick came along, Here is a bit of a warning as I have Never met such Pain in many a year – but that’s not a story I wish to post on here !!