Because Santiago is religiously so important (hence El Camino de Santiago, or the travels of Saint James), one of the things that our group did was walk the last part of the camino. There are certain landmarks along the way like this statue, and also there are little suns and signs that mark the path every so often.
The Cathedral is absolutely massive in every sense of the word, and once we got there we attended the special Pilgrim Mass which is performed every day at noon. Below, you can see that I got the chance to meet some pilgrims. A couple of these guys were from France, and if I remember right the other one was from Germany. The pilgrims aren´t hard to spot because of their huge bags and characteristic walking sticks, and we just walked up to them and asked where they were from and that kind of thing.
The sunset picture was a ¨mirador¨, or lookout that we hiked up to at one far end of the city of Santiago where we were sitting on a roof watching the sunset. As you can see it was absolutely beautiful!
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