After breakfast, we headed up to Santuario de Guadeloupe where we met up with the Camino from Irun. It was a steep climb up to the church which was built in the 16th century and is home of the black virgin found on the hillside by two children.
From the Santuario we had two choices – the “official” Camino route or the Purgatorio Route which is much steeper and goes along the ridge line to a height of 645 meters at the peak of Mount Jaizkibel. I had read the views this way were spectacular so this was the route we chose – and very very glad we did. While it wasn’t much steeper than our hikes in the white mountains’ there were a lot of ups and downs and it was more difficult with our packs. The views were stunning every way we looked.
We were very happy to finally walk into Pasajes de San Juan after a few wrong terns. This part of the Camino has several variations and sometimes they aren’t as well marked with the traditional yellow arrows. John and I got into the spirit of the Camino with the earrings we chose to wear for our trip 😊
We did our nightly laundry, took showers, and then headed out to find the one bar (by bar I mean restaurant) 😊 that was open before 7:30 pm and had an early dinner. Tomorrow we head to San Sebastián!
