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Photo: Clemens Stockner · Public domainTrek ItalyAlta Via 1 — The Classic Dolomites High Route
A six-day rifugio-to-rifugio highlights traverse of the Dolomites, from the emerald water of Lago di Braies over WWI passes and beneath the great walls of Civetta and Pelmo down towards Belluno.
- Duration
- 6 days
- Distance
- 120 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Nancy Collins · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek 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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Photo: Kristoferb · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek FranceChamonix, the Mer de Glace and the Grand Balcon Nord
A day combining a rack railway, France's largest glacier and its ice cave, a high balcony path under the Chamonix aiguilles, and the cable car to the Aiguille du Midi.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Andrew Colin · CC BY 2.0City 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 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Rdevany · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek NepalEverest Base Camp Trek: The 8-Day Highlights
An accelerated highlights version of the classic trek through the Khumbu — from the airstrip at Lukla up the Sherpa valleys to the foot of the world's highest mountain at 5,364 m.
- Duration
- 8 days
- Distance
- 110 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Davidbena · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek 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 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: User:Tcherome · Public domainTrek FranceGR20 North — Calenzana to Vizzavona
Six demanding days across the granite spine of northern Corsica, from the maquis above Calenzana over the Monte Cinto massif and past Lac de Nino to the forests of Vizzavona.
- Duration
- 6 days
- Distance
- 98 km
- Difficulty
- Expert
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Photo: Jebulon · CC0City 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 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Arash Hashemi · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk IsraelHaifa: The Baháʼí Terraces, the German Colony and Wadi Nisnas
One downhill day across Mount Carmel — nineteen garden terraces, a golden shrine, a Templer boulevard, an Arab market quarter, and a cable car back to the sea.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Asaf T. · Public domainCity walk IsraelHerodium: Herod's Cone-Shaped Palace-Fortress
A single day at the mountain Herod the Great raised for himself in the desert — the climb up the artificial cone, the round towers, the theatre with its royal box, the Bar Kokhba tunnels and the tomb.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Nickaura (Nick Sevarg) · CC BY-SA 3.0City walk JapanHida-Takayama: Old Town, Morning Markets and the Higashiyama Course
A day through a mountain town the modern world mostly passed by — dark wooden merchant streets, riverside markets at dawn, a shogun's government house, and a temple walk into the hills.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: אורן פלס · CC BY 2.5Trek 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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Photo: Fg2 · Public domainCity walk JapanKamakura: The Great Buddha and the Daibutsu Hiking Trail
A day that starts at Japan's most famous bronze Buddha, climbs a wooded ridge trail behind the town, and comes down at a money-washing cave shrine and the old capital's greatest shrine.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Sergey Pesterev · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek TanzaniaKilimanjaro: The Machame Route to Uhuru Peak
Six days from rainforest to glaciers on the 'Whiskey Route', the most scenic way up Kilimanjaro, camping from gate to gate and topping out at Uhuru Peak (5,895 m), the roof of Africa.
- Duration
- 6 days
- Distance
- 62 km
- Difficulty
- Expert
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Photo: Lionel Terray · CC0Trek ArgentinaLaguna de los Tres — the Fitz Roy Viewpoint
Patagonia's most famous day hike: about 20 km out and back from El Chaltén, ending with a savage 400-metre climb to a glacial lagoon directly beneath the granite spire of Fitz Roy.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 20 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Zarateman · CC0City 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 day
- Distance
- 5.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelMakhtesh Ramon — Rim to Crater Floor
One to two days in the world's largest erosion crater: the rim promenade at Mitzpe Ramon, the prismatic stone columns of the Carpentry, the coloured sands of the Ardon valley and the desert spring at Ein Saharonim.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 18 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelMasada Snake Path: Sunrise Ascent to the Desert Fortress
A pre-dawn climb up the winding Snake Path from the Dead Sea shore to reach Herod's cliff-top fortress just as the sun breaks over the desert.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Itinerary CanadaMontreal in 3 Days
Three well-paced days: the old town and the Lachine Canal, a day on the mountain ending at Saint Joseph's Oratory, and a market-to-bagels walk through Little Italy, Mile End and the Plateau, with the Olympic Park as the swap for a rainy day.
- Duration
- 3 days
- Distance
- 26 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Josep Renalias · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek SpainMontserrat: the Abbey and the Walk to Sant Jeroni
A day on the serrated mountain outside Barcelona — rack railway or cable car to the Benedictine abbey and the Black Madonna, then the funicular and a ridge walk to the summit of Sant Jeroni.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Yuvalr · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelMount Arbel: The Cliff Above the Sea of Galilee
A short, spectacular day above the Kinneret — the best lookout in the Galilee, a steep cliff descent on iron handholds, the rebel caves of Qal'at Ibn Ma'an, and out through Wadi Hamam.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: BenAveling · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek ItalyMount Etna from the South — Rifugio Sapienza to the Summit Craters
A single big day on Europe's most active volcano: lava cones at the road head, a cable car into the ash desert, and a guided walk to the steaming summit craters above the Valle del Bove.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 12 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Suicasmo · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek JapanMount Fuji by the Yoshida Trail
Two days up Japan's sacred volcano on its most popular route, sleeping in a mountain hut near the eighth station to catch the goraiko sunrise from the 3,776 m summit.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 15 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: 663highland · CC BY 2.5Trek JapanMount Kōya: Okunoin, the Garan and a night in a temple
A day on the sacred mountain of Shingon Buddhism — the great cemetery avenue to Kōbō Daishi's mausoleum, the founder's temple complex, the head temple, and a night in a monks' lodging.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: kallerna · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek 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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Photo: Noamdahary · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelMount Tabor: The Dome Above the Jezreel Valley
A half-day climb up the switchbacks of the Galilee's most distinctive hill, to a summit shared by a Franciscan basilica, a Greek Orthodox monastery and one of the great views in Israel.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: SimonKing74 · CC0Trek MoroccoMount Toubkal — North Africa's Highest Summit
Two days from a Berber village to the roof of North Africa at 4,167 m — mule tracks, a blue-painted shrine, a mountain refuge, and a long scree climb to a summit that sees the Sahara.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 30 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Pacman · Public domainTrek 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 day
- Distance
- 12 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Flickr user: Peter Rivera Stamford, Connecticut https://www.flickr.com/people/riverap1/ · CC BY 2.0Itinerary USA & CanadaNew York to Toronto by Car: Hudson Valley, Finger Lakes and Niagara in Five Days
About 900 kilometres from Manhattan to Toronto the long way round: sculpture and mountain views in the Hudson Valley, Catskills waterfalls, the gorges of the Finger Lakes, both sides of Niagara Falls and the wine country of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Distance
- 900 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: CarmelH1 · CC BY-SA 4.0City 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 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Carsten Steger · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk ItalyPompeii & Vesuvius: The Buried City and the Volcano That Buried It
A single big day that pairs the excavated streets of Pompeii — Forum, House of the Faun, Villa of the Mysteries, the casts of the dead — with the crater rim of the volcano responsible.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5.5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Danie van der Merwe from Cape Town, South Africa · CC BY 2.0Trek 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 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Manfred Zentgraf, Volkach, Germany · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek France & SpainThe Camino Francés: Seven Iconic Stages to Santiago
A highlights walk along the famous French Way, from crossing the Pyrenees to the Iron Cross and Galicia's green hills, ending at the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Distance
- 168 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Severin.stalder · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek ChinaThe Great Wall: Jinshanling to Simatai
A classic day-hike along a wild-and-restored stretch of Ming wall, climbing over a ridgeline strung with dozens of watchtowers from Jinshanling toward Simatai.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Luca Casartelli · CC BY-SA 2.0Trek ItalyThe Greenway del Lago di Como — Colonno to Griante
An easy day on foot along the western shore of Lake Como, from Colonno to Griante through lakeside villages, great villas and old mule tracks — finished with a ferry to Bellagio.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Zeromancer44 · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek IsraelThe Jesus Trail: Nazareth to Capernaum
Four days on foot across the Lower Galilee, from Nazareth over the hills to the Sea of Galilee, tracing a path Jesus may have walked and stringing together ancient towns, panoramic ridges and lakeside holy sites.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 65 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Nekosuki · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek JapanThe Kumano Kodō Nakahechi — Takijiri-oji to Hongū Taisha
Four days on Japan's imperial pilgrimage road, over forested passes and through mountain villages, from the gateway shrine at Takijiri to the great torii at Oyunohara.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 41 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Andreas Tille · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IcelandThe Laugavegur Trail — Landmannalaugar to Þórsmörk
Four days across Iceland's southern highlands, from the rhyolite mountains and hot springs of Landmannalaugar over an obsidian plateau and black-sand deserts to the birch woods of Þórsmörk.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 55 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Bruno Rijsman · CC BY-SA 2.0Trek ItalyThe Path of the Gods — Sentiero degli Dei
A single unforgettable day walking a cliff-top balcony high above the Amalfi Coast, from Bomerano through Nocelle and down the old stone stairs into Positano.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Bobanny assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domainTrek CanadaThe Stanley Park Seawall: Coal Harbour to English Bay on Foot
A flat, ten-kilometre loop around the edge of Vancouver's great forest park, from the marinas of Coal Harbour past totem poles, a lighthouse, the Lions Gate Bridge and a lone sea stack, to the sunset beaches of English Bay.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Eusebius · CC BY 3.0Trek New ZealandThe Tongariro Alpine Crossing
A single spectacular day across an active volcanic landscape — steaming craters, red cinder ridges and the vivid Emerald Lakes — often called New Zealand's finest day walk.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 19.4 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Mogens Engelund · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek United KingdomThe West Highland Way: Milngavie to Fort William
Scotland's best-loved long-distance walk — 154 km from the edge of Glasgow along Loch Lomond, across the wilds of Rannoch Moor and through Glen Coe to Fort William beneath Ben Nevis.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Distance
- 154 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Hseugut · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek France, Italy, SwitzerlandTour du Mont Blanc
A circular alpine classic looping 170 km around the Mont Blanc massif through France, Italy and Switzerland.
- Duration
- 7 days
- Distance
- 170 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Itinerary CanadaVancouver in 5 days
Five days that show why Vancouver is different from every other big North American city: the seawall and Stanley Park, the rainforest canyons of the North Shore, Granville Island and the beaches, the Sea-to-Sky Highway into the mountains, and a day across the water in Victoria.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Distance
- 40 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: TFNorman · Public domainTrek USAYosemite's Mist Trail: Vernal & Nevada Falls
One of Yosemite's greatest day hikes — a steep granite staircase drenched in waterfall spray, climbing past Vernal Fall to the top of Nevada Fall and looping back on the John Muir Trail.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 11 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: JZ85 · CC BY-SA 3.0Attraction USABlizzard Beach: The Ski Resort That Melted
Disney's snow-themed water park — a freak Florida blizzard built a ski resort, the snow melted, and the slopes became slides, with Summit Plummet free-falling off the top.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Priscilla Jordão from São Paulo, Brasil · CC BY-SA 2.0Attraction CanadaCasa Loma, the Baldwin Steps and Spadina House
Toronto's Edwardian castle, from the climb up the Baldwin Steps to the Great Hall, secret passages, towers, the tunnel to the stables and the gardens, finishing next door at Spadina House.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2.6 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Palacemusic · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek USADelicate Arch — The Classic Half-Day Climb
A short but strenuous out-and-back from Wolfe Ranch, past a Ute petroglyph panel and up an open slickrock slab, to the most photographed arch in the American Southwest.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4.8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Antgiant · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction USADisney Springs: The Free Evening at Disney World
Disney's open-air shopping, dining and entertainment district on Lake Buena Vista — four waterfront neighborhoods, free admission, free parking, and best from late afternoon into the night.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jedi94 · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction USADisney's Animal Kingdom: Half Zoo, Half Theme Park, Entirely Its Own Thing
A day in the largest theme park in the world — a real African safari, the floating mountains of Pandora, an Everest coaster and animal trails that reward slowing down.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: No real name given · CC BY 2.0City walk CanadaEnglish Bay to Kits Beach: Vancouver's Beach Walk
A summer walk from the laughing bronze figures at English Bay along Sunset Beach, over the Art Deco Burrard Bridge and through the museums of Vanier Park to Kitsilano Beach and the longest outdoor pool in North America.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: The Cosmonaut · CC BY-SA 2.5 caTrek CanadaGaribaldi Lake from Rubble Creek
The big day hike of the Sea-to-Sky: nine kilometres and about 900 metres up through old forest from Rubble Creek to a vast turquoise lake held back by a volcanic lava dam, with glaciers pouring into its far shore.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 18 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek AustriaHallstatt & the Dachstein — Lake, Salt Mine and Ice Cave
Two unhurried days in the Salzkammergut: a lakeside village wedged between cliff and water, the oldest salt mine in the world above it, and an ice cave and clifftop platform in the Dachstein across the lake.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Balon Greyjoy · CC0City walk JapanHiroshima: Peace Memorial Park to Miyajima
A day in two halves — the memorial park and museum in central Hiroshima in the morning, then a short ferry to the island of Itsukushima and its shrine in the afternoon.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Clementp.fr · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek CanadaJacques-Cartier National Park: The Les Loups Trail
A day hike from Quebec City into a glacial valley 550 metres deep, climbing the Les Loups trail to two cliff-edge lookouts over the Jacques-Cartier River.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 11 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk IsraelMount Herzl and Yad Vashem
A day on the western ridge of Jerusalem: Israel's national cemetery, and the Holocaust memorial that shares the hill with it.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Chicoutimi · Public domainTrek CanadaMount Royal: Olmsted's Road to the Cross, the Lake and the Lookout
A long, gentle loop over the mountain that gave Montreal its name: up Frederick Law Olmsted's switchbacks from the Cartier Monument, past the illuminated cross and Beaver Lake, to the Kondiaronk Belvedere and down the stairs into downtown.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jpatokal · CC BY-SA 4.0City walk JapanNikkō: Shrines of the Shogun and the Kegon Falls
A day pairing Japan's most ornate shrine complex — Ieyasu's mausoleum, the sleeping cat, the three wise monkeys — with a climb into the mountains to a 97-metre waterfall and a crater lake.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: No machine-readable author provided. LilDice assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5Trek CanadaQuarry Rock from Deep Cove
A short, rooty forest climb on the Baden-Powell Trail from the seaside village of Deep Cove to a bare granite outcrop with a sweeping view over Indian Arm, the fjord at the eastern edge of the North Shore.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3.8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Eddar27 · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek CanadaRouge National Urban Park: Vista and Mast Trails
Canada's first national urban park on foot: up to the Vista Trail's viewing platform over two river valleys, then the old Mast Trail through Carolinian forest to Glen Rouge and back.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 7.2 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Paolo Costa Baldi · CC BY-SA 3.0Attraction CanadaSaint Joseph's Oratory: Canada's Largest Church, Level by Level
Up the pilgrims' stairs and through the shrine a doorkeeper built: Brother André's first chapel, the candlelit Votive Chapel and his tomb, the crypt church, the great Art Deco basilica under the dome and the Way of the Cross garden on the mountainside.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Doug Sim · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek United KingdomScafell Pike from Wasdale Head
The shortest way up England's highest mountain (978 m) — about 900 m of climbing from Wasdale through Lingmell Gill and Hollow Stones onto a summit that is a bare field of boulders.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 9.6 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: DarkNight0917 · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction CanadaSea to Sky Gondola, Shannon Falls and the Chief
An hour north of Vancouver on one of the great coastal highways: a 335-metre waterfall at the roadside, a ten-minute gondola to 885 metres above Howe Sound, a suspension bridge across the void and a straight look at the face of the Stawamus Chief.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Pburka at English Wikipedia · Public domainTrek CanadaThe Grouse Grind
Vancouver's famous fitness test: 2.5 kilometres and about 800 metres of relentless climbing, much of it on stairs, straight up the face of Grouse Mountain through rainforest to a chalet with a view over the whole city. You ride the gondola down.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2.5 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Quercus acuta · CC0City walk JapanThe Hakone Loop: switchback railway, volcano and the lake torii
Japan's most enjoyable day of public transport — a switchbacking mountain railway, a cable car, a ropeway over a steaming volcanic valley, a pirate ship across a caldera lake, and a red torii standing in the water with Fuji behind it.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: JZ85 · CC BY-SA 3.0Attraction USATyphoon Lagoon: Disney's Shipwreck Water Park
Disney's castaway-themed water park, built around one of the largest wave pools in the world — with the shipwrecked Miss Tilly stranded on the mountain above it all.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: NBCUniversal · CC BY-SA 4.0Attraction USAVolcano Bay: A Day Under the Volcano
Universal's tropical-island water park — a 200-foot volcano over a wave lagoon, slides from gentle to vertical, and ordinary standby lines that reward an early arrival.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek United KingdomYr Wyddfa (Snowdon) by the Llanberis Path
The longest and most gradual way up the highest mountain in Wales — about 6.8 km of steady climbing beside the mountain railway, past the cliffs of Clogwyn Du'r Arddu to the summit at 1,085 m.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 14 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate