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I suppose that it is a challenge if someone takes the bus into town without
knowing that there is an up hill walk to the cape itself, but my own experience
was the complete opposite of yours. I had just finished the 12 km walk
from Cee to Fisterra with a badly swollen ankle. Once I dumped my pack
in the hotel room in town, I felt light enough to fly up the 2.5 km left
to the cape. The paved road was no steeper than many others that I had
encountered between Arles and Fisterra and without the pack it was a breeze.
Trying to descend to the water from the lighthouse was a different matter.
I did not make it all the way down - just far enough so that I could throw
one of my walking sticks into the closest cove. It was fortunate that I
had two sticks, since I needed the other one to get back up the cliff.
The trail back up was not all that well defined, some of the rocks were
loose, and I was 75 at the time, so I was a bit unnerved by it all. It
was probably a mistake to try to carry out the tradition of throwing my
walking stick into the water from there. It was later pointed out to me
that I could just as well have tossed it into the bay from the wharf in
town and that probably most stick tossers did it that way.
<p>regards,
<p>Robert
<br>rspengeraadelphia.net
<p>Howard Mendes wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>I agree. One
word of caution. Even if you go there by bus, the climb up to the
lighthouse from the town proper where the bus lets you off can be quite
challenging. The road is very steep and the climb was somewhat difficult
for us since we did not expect it. Some of our friends shared a taxi
from Santiago which took them directly up to the lighthouse so they were
spared the hike. Howard Mendes, NYC</font></font></blockquote>
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