Tag: Hiking
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More than 3 days on the Quilatoa Loop
One of the highlights of visiting Ecuador is trekking the Quilatoa Loop – about 25 miles in 3 days of steep terrain at high altitude (9300 ft) through pastures, canyons, and small towns with hostels. We love hiking, but after reading countless harrowing trip reports and being aware of the limitations of traveling with a…
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Maira Valley Hiking
In the Alps to the West & North in Italy, there are dozens (hundreds?) of valleys. Some of them have roads connecting through to other countries. In others, the road ends abruptly surrounded by mountains. People have traveled these routes for hundreds of years – for sport, for livelihood, and nowadays for recreation. We are…
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Another Inca Trail
There are 3 sites widely regarded as the most important Inca ruins. Machu Picchu is by far the most well-known, studied, excavated, restored and easiest to access. Vilcabamba, the last Inca retreat during the Spanish war is technically accessible but has remained largely buried in the jungle since its rediscovery in the 1960s. Choquequirao’s current…
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abel tasman recap
Day 1: The day starts off with sunshine, and the trek is relatively easy going with a rather large downhill to the beach around midday. We eat lunch, and settle in to wait for low tide which will shave an hour off the hike to the campsite. After resting we discover the wind is blowing…