Lourdes, Fatima and the Path of St. James

This tour is geared for those who want to do pilgrimage. Be prepared to be moved and affected spiritually by the pilgrimage sites and the sea of faithfuls from around the world venerating the Blessed Mother and thanking St. James, I know I was. It will also make one think of ones philosophy when it comes to religion as we saw and heard the histories of battles and conquests for the sake of one's belief. It still goes on today. The tours of the main sites are very educational. I wish one of the local tour guides could give us more information regarding the tour site instead of us going to the internet and telling her the facts. The side trips were fantastic, in fact, a longer stay could have been arranged for Porto or Obidos. I cannot say enough for the leadership of our benevolent tour director. She knows the areas we were visiting and wonderfully arranged the stop at Obidos, Portugal instead of the regular pit stop on the way to Lisbon. Each one, believer or unbeliever, should take this trip at least once.

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Too exhausting bus rides are long and packing/unpacking within 1-2days is exhausting.Though the Lourdes procession was a bone chilling experience.

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Great tour. Spiritually uplifting. Surprising to see how well a secular company handled this pilgrimage. Need a raincoat!

Awesome Pilgrimage

This Tour exceeded our expectations! Lourdes, The Way of St James, and Fatima were wonderful: so spirit filled. Our hotels were located near the sights so it was easy to go back when we wanted to further sight see.

One of the best trips to date

My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed this trip despite the rainy weather. Our tour guide Rafael Lugo could not have been nicer and more knowledgeable. He truly made our trip a lot of fun! The cities we visited on this itinerary were most inspiring and interesting. The local guides were quite knowledgeable and most helpful. We did everything that we planned on doing and then some. We would highly recommend this trip to anyone but it is also most inspiring for Catholics with trips to Lourdes, Santiago de Compostela, Fatima, and Santarem Tasting the increditble Port wine and visiting Porto was a wonderful side trip. Portugal is a fabulous country ... the people, the landscape, the food and the historic spots. We are definitely coming back to Go Ahead! Muchas gracias! Karen and Don Spahn

Wonderful, varied experience

What we like best about Go Ahead is that our tours have offered a lot, and have consistently delivered exactly what was outlined in brochure information--and more. Nearly all local tour guides were well-prepared and interesting. I suggest that this tour be modified to included Porto, eliminating San Sebastian. the latter, while pleasant, didn't offer the history or interesting experience of Porto (which is currently an optional tour). Burgos was an excellent experience==we would have liked to spend even more time there. Roberta Gonzalez was an excellent tour guide--informed, organized, and able to deal with a difficult situation with some of our travel mates.

Seeing New Sites

I had not been to Spain or Potugal. Our guide,Roberta,had done her homework so could tell us about the areas we traveled. She had a sick person on the tour that she handled very well.

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