Oasis Trails was founded in 1996 by a group of people from the Netherlands. One of the founders, Marijn, had gone to India in the 60’s in search for a higher reality and peace of mind. He did indeed find the higher reality he was looking for – the person of Jesus Christ. For someone who was searching for a spiritual guru in India, encountering the love of Jesus was not what he expected, but it was very evident that Jesus was the truth, the way, and the life – exactly what he was looking for. Since then Jesus has been the inexhaustible source and defining goal of his existence.
As Marijn had been a seeker himself, he was drawn to the Camino and all the pilgrims who were looking for purpose and meaning in their lives. In 1999 Marijn and his friend Bob founded Oasis Trails and opened an albergue in Villamayor de Monjardin, on the Camino de Santiago. Since then Oasis Trails has been sharing the love and truth of Jesus with pilgrims.