The end of the world is at 90km from Santiago and you either go by foot (3 days), embark on a three plus hour public bus ride (stopping at every village) or have some lovely pilgrim friends organizing a car for a day excursion. It is said that already the celts held rituals and that the phoenicians built here a temple to their sun god. Now pilgrims go these extra miles to burn their clothes, take a swim in the sea, sleep on the nature and wake up as a new person, as they see the sun rise. We went for the environmental friendly (no burning of synthetics) and touristy version, sunbathed on the rocks before having lunch at the port (fantastic fresh dove and sea fruit) and then a swim (water too cold for me, so I tipped just feet) at the Langosteira beach, known for its shells (vieras) which pilgrims used to take back home as a prove that they had pilgrimed all way to Santiago.
Standing here on a sunny day, one thinks how bizarre the Romans called this the Sea of Darkness, where the world finishes and that it took western civilization so long to stop thinking that at the horizon the sun did not actually fall/disappear and the world was not flat. However on a stormy day, this coast line (which is called Costa de la Morte, Death Coast) with its impenetrable, black water and many dangerous rocks, was well a natural limit to explore further.
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