Yellow Arrow Guides publishes guide to the Caminos de Santiago in book and app format.
The Camino Francés
Fully updated for 2025
The Camino Francés starts in southern France in the village of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and winds its way 800km across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela. This is the most popular walking route of all the Caminos and the one which features in the film The Way.
To buy the printed book of the Walking Guide to the Camino de Santiago go to the Amazon link for your country: US | UK | Australia | Canada.
This guide is also available as an Android app with interactive, offline maps. To buy it go to the Google Play Store.
It’s also available for iPhone. To buy it go to Apple’s App Store.
The Vía de la Plata and Camino Sanabrés
Fully updated for 2025
The Vía de la Plata starts in Seville and goes north through the open countryside of western Spain before branching west and becoming the Camino Sanabrés which continues through the mountains of southern Galicia until it arrives in Santiago de Compostela after a little over 1000km.
To buy printed book of the Walking Guide to the Vía de la Plata and the Camino Sanabrés go to the Amazon link for your country: US | UK | Australia | Canada.
This guide is also available as an Android app with interactive, offline maps. To buy it go to the Google Play Store.
It’s also available for iPhone. To buy it go to Apple’s App Store.
Camino de Baztan
Entirely new edition published in summer 2024
The Camino del Baztan starts in Bayonne and plots a course due south through the hilly Basque countryside to arrive in Pamplona after (about) five day’s walking.
It’s a picturesque and peaceful Camino with a well-developed network of pilgrim accommodation which conveniently links Bayonne / Biarritz with its airport and train station with Pamplona, the first major city on the Camino Francés.
It’s not for the faint hearted (also not for first-timers), some of the territory is remote and you’re unlikely to meet many (or any) other pilgrims.
You can buy it from Amazon in your country US | UK | Australia | Canada.
Practical Preparation and Background
Is a guide for first-time pilgrims which (as its name suggests) tries to help you with your preparation for your pilgrimage. It covers all the practical stuff, packing, physical preparation, travel arrangements, what to expect on the Camino, etc. It explains it all in straightforward language and tries to anticipate what a first-timers needs to know, based largely on what I wish I’d know on my own (disastrous) first Camino.
It also explains some of the history of the Caminos (did you know they’ve existed for almost a thousand years? and in the middle-ages around a million people walked them every year?)
You can buy it in either print or Kindle format from Amazon in your country US | UK | Australia | Canada.
About me
My name is Gerald Kelly and I run Yellow Arrow Guides.
I walked my first Camino in 2003 (although I only managed a couple of days) and I’ve been back every year since 2005 to add more kilometres to my total (currently about 13,000km). If you’re really interested you can read about it in the blockbuster bestseller account of my first big Camino, We Pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, it’s available in print and Kindle format from Amazon: USA | UK | Australia | Canada.
You can contact me by email from our contact page.
About Yellow Arrow Guides
I began publishing Camino guides in 2007. At first I only covered the Camino Francés, and the guide was only available as a download from my website. Over the years I’ve gradually expanded to providing printed guides through Amazon’s self-publishing platform and since 2017 apps for Android and iPhone smartphones.
The guides are updated every year (local and global catastrophes allowing) with a full update at least every second year.
All these years I’ve remained committed to the free – donativo model of distributing my guides. You get to download the guide for free, with all the information you need to walk the Camino, and if you find it useful you make a small donation.
I believe strongly that Donativo is a great Camino tradition and one of the things that make the Caminos special. It sets the experience of walking a Camino apart from most other experiences in our everyday lives.
It is part of the spirit of the Camino and it’s worth preserving.
Download the guides for free
To visit the Camino-specific websites and download the guides for free go to: