Vía de la Plata
19 km, 522 m up and 336 m down, through 3 places, 1 of which has somewhere to sleep. Where you stop is up to you.
Every place on the path in order, with the distance from Laza. Most are too small to sleep in — a fountain, a chapel, a bar that may or may not be open — but they are what the day is actually made of.
Between Laza and Soutelo Verde the camino follows the road, a mostly flat walk along the valley. It leaves the road to the left to pass through Soutelo (bar) (3.3 km). It returns to the road and then turns right onto a rural track to Tamicelas (3.2 km). From Tamicelas it begins the climb to Albergueria.
A small village with a bar, 3.3 km from Laza. A chance to top up before the climb to Albergueria.
A hamlet between Soutelo Verde and Albergueria. No services. From here the climb begins in earnest.
Rural walking, on the road and off again in several places, with a descent into Vilar de Barrio.
Paved walking along the road through the hamlets of Boveda (2.2 km), Vilar do Gomareite (bar) (0.9 km), Bobadela a Pinta (5.3 km), Padroso (bar) (1.1 km), Cima de Vila (1.7 km), and Quintela (1.4 km). As you enter Xunqueira de Ambia on a back road the albergue is one of the first buildings on your right.
Distance, climb and descent are measured along the GPS track for this camino — 125 recorded points across this span, the same track the app carries. The town-to-town figures in my data put it at 19 km.
Esta entidad ha sido beneficiaria de una ayuda del Programa de incentivos a la movilidad eficiente y sostenible (MOVES III), gestionado por la Xunta de Galicia a través del Instituto Enerxético de Galicia (INEGA) en el marco del Real Decreto 266/2021, y cofinanciada por la Unión Europea — NextGenerationEU, dentro del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.