Travel Photography Photos tagged as hiking
Wine Glass Bay, camping spot 2nd night. Frycinet NP Hiking.
Cape Pillar Hike
Mount Olympus, according to the Greek mythology the home of the 12 ancient Greek gods and goddesses, is the highest and most famous mountain of Greece with an altitude of 2918m (9.576ft). Mount Olympus is noted for its very rich flora (over 1700 species), with several endemic plants. It is also an important nesting area for birds of prey such as the honey buzzard, the bearded vulture, the black vulture, the short-toed eagle, the golden eagle, the booted eagle and the lanner falcon. In 1938 Mount Olympus was established as Greece's first national park and in 1981, UNESCO included Olympus National Park in an international network of regions named Biosphere Reserves. The European Community has included Olympus in the list of "The Most Important Bird areas of the European Community".
Mount Kilimanjaro National Park is 128km from Arusha town, which covers an area of 755sq km (about 470sq miles), and Kilimanjaro is the crown of Tanzania. Rising in absolute isolation, at 5895 meters (19,339 feet), Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain and one of the accessible high summits, a beacon for visitors from all around the world. Most climbers reach the crater rim with little more then a walking stick, proper clothing and determinations. Kilimanjaro can be climbed at any time of the year but the best is considered to be from August-October and January to March. It is wet in the rainforest during the rains in April, May, June and November. December through to February is the warmest months
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About 5 years ago we did memorable hiking the Wienerwald (Vienna Woods) with Roger. Overwrought by heat and prolonged walk in the hills, we were supposed to go to Grinzig for sighseeing and lunch, and at this exact point, in Kahlenbergerdorf, instead of taking tram we begun our superfluous climbing of "the last 100 m" back through vineyards...
on the Inca Trail
Lead guide Freddy and some of our Inca Trail trekking group
On path up to the Pisac ruins
Rio, Ken, Mario and me at the Echo Lakes trailhead, about to begin our 6 day 75-mile backpacking trip on the PCT