O Camiño dos Faros or The Lighthouse Way, is a 200-km hiking route in Galicia (Spain) that links Malpica with Finisterre primarily along the coast. The route takes you past by all the Lighthouses that help ships on their way past this rugged coastline. The coast, known as A Costa da Morte (Death Coast), due to the many shipwrecks that have taken place over the years, is spectacular, to say the least. One walks past grand cliffs, sweeping sandy beaches, lonely capes and iconic lighthouses as well as landmarks from a time when this coast, with its fierce tides and dangerous shoals was rightly respected by mariners and feared by their loved ones at home.

I walked the 200km path in reverse, starting in Cee, 20kms before Finisterre, and taking a shortcut one of the stages (so it would fit my schedule and accommodation possibilities).

I started upon completion of the Camino Portugues and took a bus from Santiago de Compostela to Cee, to start walking. This is a far more challenging route than e.g. the Camino Portugues, with ca. 5.000m elevation and quiet some scrambling along small paths on the cliffs overlooking the sea.