Routes tagged
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26 routes
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Trek NepalAnnapurna Base Camp — the Sanctuary Trek
Seven days from terraced Gurung villages up a hidden gorge into the Annapurna Sanctuary, an amphitheatre of 7,000-metre peaks closing a full circle around base camp at 4,130 m.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Distance
- 90 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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City walk SpainBilbao: Guggenheim to Casco Viejo Along the Nervión
A flat, easy day tracing Bilbao's reinvention — from Gehry's titanium museum along the river to the seven medieval streets and the pintxo bars of Plaza Nueva.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk FranceClassic Paris on Foot: Notre-Dame to the Arc de Triomphe
A single day walking the grand axis of Paris, from the island where the city was born, past the Louvre and through the Tuileries, up the Champs-Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk United KingdomEdinburgh: The Royal Mile and Arthur's Seat
One day from the castle on its volcanic rock, straight down the Royal Mile to Holyrood, then up an extinct volcano for the whole city at your feet.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek IsraelEin Avdat: The White Canyon of Zin
A short, vertical day in the Negev — a white chalk gorge with a 15-metre waterfall, spring-fed pools, Byzantine monks' caves and a ladder climb out onto the rim above the Wilderness of Zin.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek IsraelEin Gedi Nature Reserve: Nahal David and the David Waterfall
A short, water-rich hike up a desert canyon to the David Waterfall, then higher to a hidden cave, a spring and a 5,000-year-old temple above the Dead Sea.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek IsraelGamla: The Fallen City, the Vultures and the Waterfall
One full day in the central Golan linking three separate trails — a besieged Roman-era city on a camel-hump ridge, a cliff lookout over Israel's largest griffon vulture colony, and the country's highest waterfall.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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City walk SpainGranada on Foot: the Alhambra, the Albaicín and Sacromonte
One full day walking from the Nasrid palaces and the Generalife gardens down into the whitewashed lanes of the Albaicín, ending with sunset at San Nicolás and the cave quarter of Sacromonte.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek USAGrand Canyon Rim-to-Rim — North Kaibab to Bright Angel
The classic crossing of the Grand Canyon: down the North Kaibab Trail from the cool, forested North Rim to the Colorado River at Phantom Ranch, then up the Bright Angel Trail to the South Rim.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Distance
- 38 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Trek IsraelIsrael National Trail: Five-Day Highlights
The most beautiful five days of the 1,100 km Israel National Trail — the Galilee ridges, Mount Carmel, the Wilderness of Zin, the Ramon Crater and the Eilat Mountains down to the Red Sea.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Distance
- 92 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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City walk SpainMadrid Historic Walk: From the Royal Palace to the Retiro
One easy day on foot across the old center of the Spanish capital — royal palace, arcaded squares, a literary quarter, the Prado, and a park that used to belong to kings.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 5.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek GreeceMount Olympus — Prionia to Mytikas, the Home of the Gods
Two days from the Prionia trailhead through beech forest to Refuge A, then up to Skala and across the exposed Kaki Skala scramble to Mytikas (2,918 m), the highest point in Greece.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 18 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Trek IsraelNahal Amud — Springs, Canyon and the Pillar Rock
A descent through the shaded canyon of the Amud Stream in the Upper Galilee, past year-round springs and pools to the tall pillar of rock that gave the stream its name, on down toward the Sea of Galilee.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 11 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek IsraelNahal Kziv and Montfort Castle
A full day in the Galilee's greenest canyon — running water in every season, plane trees and oleander along the streambed, and a ruined Crusader castle on the spur above.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 12 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek IsraelNahal Yehudiya — The Canyon, the Ladder and the Swim
A hard water route down a basalt canyon in the central Golan: an iron ladder bolted to the cliff drops you into a pool you can only cross by swimming, then the trail runs on past the falls and the hexagonal columns.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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City walk IsraelNimrod Fortress: A Muslim Stronghold on the Slopes of Hermon
A walk through the largest medieval fortress in Israel — the keep, a hidden staircase down to a secret cistern, the great towers and their Arabic inscriptions, strung along a knife-edge ridge with the Hula Valley spread out below.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- City walk Italy
Pisa & Lucca: Two Tuscan Towns in a Day
The Leaning Tower and its marble square in Pisa, then a short train ride to Lucca to walk the Renaissance walls, the oval piazza and a tower crowned with oak trees.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek CroatiaPlitvice Lakes: The Full Traverse
One day walking the length of Croatia's oldest national park on boardwalks laid across sixteen terraced turquoise lakes, with an electric boat over Kozjak and the 78-metre Veliki Slap at the end.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 18 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek South AfricaTable Mountain via Platteklip Gorge
The classic direct ascent of Table Mountain — a steep, sun-baked climb up the great cleft in the cliffs to the flat summit high above Cape Town, with the option to ride the cable car back down.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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City walk USAThe Chicago Loop: A Day Inside American Architecture
One day on foot through Chicago's central business district — Millennium Park, the Riverwalk, the Skydeck and the Art Institute, with the skyline overhead the whole way.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk ItalyThe Sassi of Matera — Cave City on the Ravine
A day on foot through the two cave districts of Matera — Sasso Barisano and Sasso Caveoso — their rock churches and cave houses, ending at the viewpoint across the Murgia ravine.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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City walk SpainToledo: The City of Three Cultures on Foot
A day inside the walls of the city where Christians, Muslims and Jews built side by side — from the Bisagra gate to the cathedral, two medieval synagogues, and the Tagus gorge.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 4.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City walk United KingdomBath: A Georgian Walk, From Roman Spring to Royal Crescent
One easy day through a honey-coloured city — the Roman Baths, the abbey, the great Georgian set pieces, and a bridge with shops all the way across.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
- City walk Italy
Florence Historic Center: The Renaissance on Foot
One compact day from Brunelleschi's dome across the Arno to the Oltrarno, taking in the Baptistery, the Uffizi and the Ponte Vecchio.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek USANavajo Loop & Queen's Garden — The Bryce Amphitheater Circuit
The classic half-day combination: drop off the rim at Sunset Point through the Wall Street switchbacks, cross the hoodoo floor of the Bryce Amphitheater, and climb back out through Queen's Garden to Sunrise Point.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 4.6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek USAThe Narrows — Bottom-Up Day Hike
A one-day out-and-back wade up the Virgin River from the Temple of Sinawava, through the towering Wall Street slot canyon to Big Spring and back.
- Duration
- 1 days
- Distance
- 14 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate