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49 routes
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Trek 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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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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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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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 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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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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Trek 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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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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City 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 days
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
- City walk Israel
Herodium: 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 days
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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City 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 days
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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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 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 days
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek 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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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 20 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 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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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 7 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 12 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Trek 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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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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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 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 days
- Distance
- 6 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek 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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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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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
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City 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 days
- Distance
- 5.5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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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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Trek 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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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek 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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Trek 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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Trek 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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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 9 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Trek New Zealand
The 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 days
- Distance
- 19.4 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Trek 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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Trek 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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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 11 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 4.8 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek 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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City 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 days
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City 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 days
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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City 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 days
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 9.6 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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City 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 days
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Trek 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 days
- Distance
- 14 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate