Category Archive: Hiking

NEWS: My Abel Tasman Track Story Featured at HikeBikeTravel

NEWS: My Abel Tasman Track Story Featured at HikeBikeTravel  Adventurous Canadian travel blogger Leigh McAdam of HikeBikeTravel really out-did herself in 2014 by challenging herself to 100 Adventures around Canada. She jumped head-long into multi-day hiking, backpacking, cycling, cross-country skiing, canoeing, kayaking and camping excursions in the country’s beautiful national parks, coastlines, forests and mountains. …

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New Zealand’s Famous Abel Tasman Track – 11 Reasons it’s an Easy Multi-day Hike

New Zealand’s Famous Abel Tasman Track – 11 Reasons it’s an Easy Multi-day Hike I recently completed New Zealand’s famous Abel Tasman Coastal Track, one of the country’s nine designated ‘Great Walks’. I’d originally planned doing the hike way back in my 20s, so I’d waited an awfully long, long time to hike that trail. …

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PHOTO GALLERY: Triund Trek – Overnight Hike in the Indian Himalayas

PHOTO GALLERY: Triund Trek – Overnight Hike in the Indian Himalayas Triund is a grassy mountain meadow situated on a Himalayan ridgetop at 2842 M / 9325 ft. Triund is a stiff day hike up from Dharamsala, with an ascent of over 1000 M / 3300 ft. Once there, bare rock faces of neighboring high …

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LashWorldTour NEWS: My Guest Post is on HikeBikeTravel

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LashWorldTour NEWS: My Guest Post is on HikeBikeTravel Lovely Leigh McAdam invited me to guest post on her aptly named travel blog, HikeBikeTravel. As you can tell from the title, Leigh and I have a lot in common! For her travel adventure site, I’ve written the story of my solo ascent of volcanic Mt Semeru …

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HIKING IN MALAYSIA: ‘DRAGON’S BACKBONE’ ON CHINESE NEW YEAR

Welcome! If it’s your first time here, you might want to subscribe to my free  monthly newsletter. Thank you! —> ‘Abah Niesa’ be-friended me on Facebook. He’s a Malaysian man fond of hiking in Malaysia. When I was preparing to return to Kuala Lumpur recently, we agreed to finally meet and go hiking together. Hiking …

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HIKING THE ANNAPURNA CIRCUIT TREK, NEPAL

Views of the Annapurna Range, part of the Himalayas in western Nepal HIKING THE ANNAPURNA CIRCUIT TREK, NEPAL The Annapurna Circuit Trek in western Nepal is one of Nepal’s most popular hikes. As the name implies, it’s a circular hike- through the high valleys and mountain passes rimming the Himalayan Annapurna Ranges. Those soaring mountains …

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