Santiago De Compostela Tours and Trips

Jessica, our tour leader, was fantastic. We were a small group of 9 travelers. She ensured everyone understood each days length, difficulty, stops and destination. She waited for the slower travelers and ensured everyone completed each days journey. She also arranged lunches and dinners in advance each day which made the trip run smooth and seamlessly. Well done Explore!

Thoroughly enjoyed our stroll across Northern Spain. This iconic pilgrim path was brought alive by our wonderful tour guide Jessica who’s local knowledge, people skills and instinctive warm and kind ways presented the perfect glue that held together one of the nicest bunches of people that we have had the privilege of spending a perfect time with.

Good info and preparation details. Helpful communication. Luggage transfer and accommodation all worked smoothly. Online map link (GPX) really useful and worked well in conjunction with daily notes - all good!

Good communication with/from Explore and very well organised throughout. Helpful and very friendly staff. The holiday was great. Beautiful countryside, lovely accommodation, friendly group. Our Explore leader Jessica was excellent, knowledgeable and encouraging so big thank you to her. I would recommend this trip.

We did the 115km Sarria to Santiago walk over 6 days, self-guided. My husband and I had the most amazing time and would thoroughly recommend doing this walk to anyone. We saw mums with prams, older people and all ages on the walk. The organisation was seamless - good hotels, good food, no problem with suitcase transport. One hotel was 7km away from the end of the day's walk (and instructions were to call them for a pickup) and the only issue we had was in trying to contact the hotel with only an eSIM card as they had no WhatsApp option (so I'd suggest changing this). I also want to point out that although the official distance advertised is 115km, it is actually closer to 130km (measured on Strava).

The walk lived up to all expectations and the accommodation was comfortable and appreciated at the end of a long day of walking. While dinner was provided for most locations and satisfied a walker's hunger, sadly many of the establishments failed to showcase the food of Portugal and Spain.