Endurance
Waymarked long-distance walks and pilgrim routes, stage by stage.
Walking covers long-distance trails, pilgrim routes and coast paths done in stages, usually between towns with beds and food. It needs no technical skills, just steady fitness, and luggage transfer often makes it easy going.
In season: Year-round · Peak: May
13 adventures
WalkingPortugal
Porto to Santiago on the coastal way — around 280 km walked by some 100,000 pilgrims a year.
WalkingUnited Kingdom
96 miles from Milngavie to Fort William — Scotland's classic long walk, some 120,000 walkers a year.
WalkingCroatia
Croatia's oldest and most photographed national park, UNESCO-listed since 1979.
WalkingSpain
A thousand-year-old pilgrimage route and the most walked long-distance path in the world.
WalkingJapan
Five days on the Nakahechi route through cedar forest to the three grand shrines of Kumano.
WalkingJapan
Eleven days on the Edo-era highway between Tokyo and Kyoto, through sixty-nine post towns.
WalkingJapan
Twelve hundred kilometres around an entire island, temple to temple, in about six weeks.
WalkingPoland
Five days on the quietest stretch of Poland's 500-kilometre red trail, through wooden Orthodox churches and villages that no longer exist.
WalkingSpain
A boardwalk pinned to a gorge wall a hundred metres above the river.
WalkingSpain
The historic bridle path that rings the entire coast of Menorca.
WalkingSpain
The Path of the Lighthouses along Galicia's wild Coast of Death.
Walking3 routesSpain
The old smugglers' coast path along the Costa Brava, headland after headland of pine, cliff and hidden cove.
Walking3 routesPoland
Walking between the Tatar villages of Podlasie, with wooden mosques and Muslim cemeteries from the 1670s.