48 of the World's Greatest Hiking Trails ...

Hiking isn't everyone's cup of tea vacation-wise but some of the World's greatest trails take you to places you'd only ever see in photographs. Up hill and down dale, skirting lakes, glaciers and lava fields, being sprayed by mist from cascading waterfalls, seeing the world from a high mountain top, being your own boss and with maybe just Mother Nature for company, there really is nothing quite like hiking. Especially if you set out to conquer one of these great hiking trails:

1. Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina, USA

2. Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, Wales

3. South Kaibab Trail, Grand Canyon, Arizona, United States

4. Island Walks, Fernando De Noronha, Brazil

5. “Lover’s Lane” Trail and Wood Line, Presidio National Park, San Francisco, USA

6. Walter's Wiggles on Way to Angel's Landing in Zion N.P. Utah

7. Hike to the Fairy Pools, Isle of Skye, Scotland

8. Skyline Trail Mt Rainier, Seattle, USA

9. Hiking Trail in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, USA

10. Ha'iku Stairs, Oahu, Hawaii, USA

11. Snowman Trek, Bhutan

12. Appalachian Trail, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, USA

13. Mount Huashan, China

14. Coast Trail, Na Pali, Hawaii, USA

15. The Milford Track, South Island, New Zealand

16. Up Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

17. Torres Del Paine Circuit Trek, Chile

18. Mount Everest Base Camp Trek, Nepal

19. Santa Cruz Trek, Peru

20. Hiking Trail, Lombardia, Italy

21. West Coast Trail, Vancouver Island, Canada

22. Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, Peru

23. Tongariro Northern Circuit, New Zealand

24. Via Ferrata, Dolomiti Del Brenta, Italy

25. Tour Du Mont Blanc, France, Italy and Switzerland

26. National Trail, Israel

27. Pacific Crest Trail, National Forest, Washington, USA

28. Jungfrau in Interlaken, Switzerland

29. Tiger Leaping Gorge, China

30. Sentieno Azzurro, Cinque Terre, Italy

31. El Camino Del Rey, Malaga, Spain

32. Zion Canyon, Utah, USA

33. Forest Walk, the Redwoods, California, USA

34. Mountain Hiking Trail near Lijiang, China

35. GR20, Corsica, France

36. Bibbulmun Track, Australia

37. North Drakensberg Traverse, South Africa

38. Laugavegurinn/Fimmvörðuháls Pass, Iceland

39. The Sir Samuel and Lady Florence Baker Historical Trail, South Sudan to Uganda

40. Urique-Batopilas Trail, Copper Canyon, Mexico

41. Overland Track, Tasmania, Australia

42. MacLehose Trail, New Territories, Hong Kong

43. Mount Kailash Pilgrimage, Tibet

44. Yoshida Trail, Mount Fuji, Japan

45. E7 Path, Slovenia

46. El Camino De Santiago De Compostela, Spain

47. West Highland Way, Scotland

48. Shackleton's Route, South Georgia Island, South Atlantic/Antarctica

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