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
Ready to lace up your hiking boots?
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