Hiking in Europe

Austria
Mayerhofen - Austria
France
Chamonix - French Alps
The French & Spanish Pyrenees
Italy
The Dolomites - Selva Val Gardena - Italy
The Brenta Dolomites - Italy
The Cinque Terre - Italy
Snowshoe - Italy
Liechtenstein
Malbun - Liechtenstein
Romania
Tour of Bucegi and Piatra Craiului - Romania
Hunt the Highest Peaks - Romania
Portugal
Alentajo- Portugal
Madeira - Atlantic Portugal
Slovenia
Spectacular Hiking in the Julian Alps – Slovenia
Inn to Inn Walking Tour - Slovenia

Spain
Majorca - Spain
The Els Port Natural Park – Terres De L’Ebre - Spain
The French & Spanish Pyrenees
Switzerland
Arosa – Swiss Grisons Region - Switzerland
Wengen - Switzerland
Wildhaus – Switzerland
The Engadine - Switzerland

Mayerhofen - Austria

The attractive village of MAYERHOFN lies near the head of the Zillertal valley in Austria’s beautiful Tyrol. It is a compact linear village surrounded by majestic mountains on all sides, with cable cars reaching up to the surrounding alpine pastures. It has everything an alpine resort should have - excellent restaurants, cafes, bars, shops of all kinds and all the important services such as banks and ATMs. To the south are the Zillertal Alps, rising to over 11,000 feet at the Grosse Murchner and Grosse Loffler peaks. To the west the cable takes you to the lower slopes of the 9,000 ft. Rastkogel in the Tuxer Alps, whilst to the east is the Gerlos group rising to the 10,800 ft. Reichenspitze. The four main side valleys also have cables and chair lifts to delightful easier alpine walks. The valley has excellent train (including the quaint Zillertal steam trains) and bus links to assist in getting to and from the hiking trailheads.

Chamonix - French Alps

This specially arranged holiday is based in the famous mountain resort of Chamonix, nestling in the heart of the French Alps. CHAMONIX is located in the heart of the French Alps and is a world renowned mountain resort, beloved of hikers, climbers and skiers alike. It nestles at the foot of Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak and is a World Heritage Site. It is a great base for hikes with very convenient public transport, including a large number of cable cars and chair lifts, which give access to superb high-level hikes. The village has all the facilities you will need to complete the enjoyment of your holiday.

The French & Spanish Pyrenees

These rugged mountains stretch along the border between France & Spain and extend from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. They offer excellent hikes on both sides. The Spanish side is drier and more barren whilst the French side is greener and less rugged. Both offer excellent hiking possibilities. The Ordesa & Perdido National Park extends along the Spanish side and is quite dramatic, with beech and poplar forests, mountain streams and waterfalls and a startling backdrop of limestone palisades. Wildlife includes golden eagles, lammergeiers, Griffon and Egyptian vultures, as well as the abundant Pyrenean Chamois. On the French side the Pyrenees National Park offers equally beautiful, if in parts a softer mountainscape, with also many waterfalls, rivers, streams and lakes. The famous Cirque de Gavarnie and the Breche de Roland offer more challenging hikes, snow conditions permitting. The wildlife on the Spanish side extends over the border into France and there are many opportunities for the keen birder to spot some rarer species, including Lammergeiers, vultures and the Great Black Backed Shrike.

The Dolomites - Selva Val Gardena - Italy

The attractive village of SELVA is located in the beautiful Gardena Valley in Italy’s fabulous Dolomites! The valley is surrounded on all sides by wonderful mountain ranges like the Sella, Sassolungo, Rosengarten, Cir, Geisler and Schlern. The craggy, jagged peaks of the Dolomites make them amongst the most beautiful and spectacular mountains in the world!
Selva is a great base for hikes in all these areas with very convenient public transport, including a large number of cable cars and chair lifts, which give access to superb high-level hikes. The village has all the facilities you will need to complete the enjoyment of your holiday

The Brenta Dolomites - Italy

The popular resort of MADONNA di CAMPIGLIO lies between the majestic Brenta Dolomites and the Presenalla and Adamello Alps, to the west of the Brenner Pass Motorway. This gives a variety of scenery and the choice of walking amongst the granite slopes of the alps and the dolomitic limestone of the Brenta. There are a number of cable cars and chair lifts which lift you to higher alpine pastures and you can walk amongst beautiful lakes and craggy mountains. A full programme of walks is possible with hardly any travelling from the lovely Rendena Valley. There are lots of bars, restaurants, shops and banks around the two main squares, as well as a delightful park.

The Cinque Terre - Italy

Located along a strip of the Mediterranean coastline between Sestri Levante in the north and La Spezia in the south. It is a wild and untamed area, with a dramatic coastline and is dotted with small pretty fishing villages.
You will stay for 11 nights in the village of Monterosso, which has only limited access and transport connections to the outside world. You will be using the local train service, as well as local boat services, to travel to and from the start of the hikes.
This is a moderately graded hiking holiday based in the romantic and unspoilt region of the Cinque Terre, nestling along the sunny shores of the Mediterranean, to the south of the Italian Riviera

Arosa – Swiss Grisons Region - Switzerland

THE HOLIDAY is based in the mountain top village of Arosa in the Grisons Canton of southeast Switzerland. Arosa lies at 5,000 feet at the end of an amazing mountain cog railway, which snakes its way up from the town of Chur. Above the village towers the mighty Weisshorn, reachable by cable car from close to the hotel whilst across the valley the equally impressive Schiesshorn dominates the view.
The scenery is wild and rugged yet very beautiful and offers absolutely superb hiking in every direction. Arosa has all the shops, cafes, restaurants, bars, banks and other facilities you need. There are two lakes where you can swim and many of the hotels offer dancing in the evening. Or try your hand at curling in the local ice-rink!

Wengen - Switzerland

Wengen is a delightful, traffic free village in the fabulous Bernese Oberland, situated at around 4,000 and is perched on a terrace overlooking the Lauterbrunnen Valley. Wengen has old wooden, flower bedecked houses and enough shops, bars, cafes etc. to meet all your needs. It has an unrivalled position with magnificent views of the 13,642 ft. Jungfrau, whilst the equally impressive Monsch and Eiger are around the corner ! It is the ideal base from which to explore these and many other peaks in the region. It also offers many easier walks along the many alpine plateaux and along the Lauterbrunnen valley. It is very well served by cable cars and chairlifts and is reached from Zurich by Swiss Railways to Interlaken, then by the smaller Bernese Oberland railway to Lauterbrunnen, then by the even smaller, wonderful Wengen Mountain Railway, which snakes its way up from Lauterbrunnen. This continues to Kleine Scheidegg, the connecting station for the trains through the Eiger Tunnels to the Jungfraujoch, Europe’s highest railway station at over 11,000 feet. There is another connection from Kleine Scheidegg down to Grindelwald. Another great mountain railway reached on this system is the cog railway up to Schynigge Platte whilst from Lauterbrunnen you can take the funicular railway to Grutschalp and from there the electric trolley car to Murren.

Wildhaus – Switzerland

THE VACATION is based in Wildhaus in the St. Gall Canton, to the east of Zurich.
Wildhaus is approximately 50 miles south east of Zurich and 15 miles south of Appenzell at an altitude of 3,650 feet. It lies between the series of spectacular northeast/southwest running mountain ranges around Santis in the north and the dramatic Churfirsten ranges to the south. If you stood on the Augstenburg above Malbun in Liechtenstein you would see these great mountains beckoning from across the Rhine Valley! Peaks like Hinterrugg, Sichelchamm, Gamser Rugg and Gamsberg in the south and the Wildhauser Shafberg and Santis to the north rise to between 7200 and 8500 feet.

Majorca - Spain

You will stay for 7 nights in the charming seaside resort of Puerto de Pollensa, which is located in the north of the island, on the Bay of Alcudia and at the entrance to the wildly beautiful Formentor Peninsula. The old centre is still a fishing port and the resort curves around the bay in both directions. Although a popular resort for those who prefer a more peaceful environment than on the south coast, Puerto de Pollensa is quite a small town but with all the facilities you will need in the way of banks, bars and restaurants and so on. From the centre to the west of the bay there is a boarded walkway known as the Pine Walk which will take you in just a few minutes to your hotel.

Alentajo- Portugal

Spend 7 nights in and around the ancient town of Castelo de Vide. This is a pleasant town, with winding, cobbled hilly streets, a thermal spa, a medieval castle and old Jewish quarter (15th century synagogue), the Visigothic chapel of São Salvador do Mundo, two Paços do Concelho (medieval and 18th century), and an ancient church.
You will enjoy 5 days of hiking from your hotel base, much of it in the Sao Mamede Mountain Nature Reserve. You will also hike to the delightful fortified hill top village of Mervao, which has one of the best preserved 13th century castles.

The Els Port Natural Park – Terres De L’Ebre - Spain

Your vacation begins on arrival in Barcelona Airport. You will stay for 7 nights in the charming small town of Horta Saint Joan, made famous by the painter Picasso, who lived there for two periods of his life and where he made his first paintings in the cubist style. There is a fascinating Picasso Museum in the town. Horta is the largest of five settlements which stand on the edge of the Els Ports Park and has a beautiful mediaeval town square with well restored old buildings. The nearby Convent of San Salvador is worth a visit. Horta is a great place for hikes into the mountains, including Mont Santa Barbara and the dramatic Roques de Benet.

Spectacular Hiking in the Julian Alps – Slovenia

The Julian Alps jagged snow capped peaks, culminating in Mt. Triglav at 9,394 ft., contrast with fertile valleys full of colour and activity. The Karst limestone landscape creates a fascinating plethora of caves, underground rivers cascading out of rock faces, dramatic waterfalls, high cliffs and narrow steep gorges. The valleys are full of meadows, cornfields, hopfields, orchards and vegetable gardens and of course wildflowers are everywhere. The delightful enchanting villages have colourful window boxes and the area has everything needed for a superb mountain walking holiday.

Malbun - Liechtenstein

Malbun is a delightful village, high in the mountains above the town of Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein. The highest village in this tiny country, Malbun lies at 5,250 feet, in a cirque or bowl shaped valley surrounded on three sides by dramatic mountains. All around are rolling pastures with paths which climb up the rugged slopes. These culminate in the peaks of Gorfion and Augstenburg, both around 7,500 feet. The village has a few shops where you can buy virtually everything you need, including appetising fillings for your box lunch.

The Engadine - Switzerland

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Snowshoe Hiking In The Heart Of The Dolomites - Italy

Enjoy the beauty of the Dolomites far from the pistes. Spend your day surrounded by a fairytale like landscape. Stay at a cosy base in the valley of the Dolomites surrounded by impressive peaks. See new and different mountain scenery every day. Hike quietly through deep unbroken snow and enjoy the air of tranquility and peace that surrounds you. This is the unique and mind-blowing experience of a snowshoe hike in the Dolomites. In the winter months, the snow capped landscape surrounding you invites you to spend a perfect winter holiday full of snowy hikes and excursions that bring peace and harmony for your body and soul.

Madeira - Atlantic Portugal

This one week holiday will take you a on a series of memorable walks in the beautiful and unspoilt Atlantic Island of Madeira. The holiday starts with your arrival at Funchal Airport, from where you will be transferred to your hotel. You will stay in the outskirts of the capital Funchal. The walks will mostly follow the Levadas, alongside the irrigation channels for the vineyards, overlooking beautiful valleys ; over stepping stones, across bridges and through arches in the rocks ; through pastureland, with sunlit panoramas of majestic mountains, proud valleys, and the tranquility of the north coast villages ; by 25 famous water falls set amidst wild vegetation ; via apple orchards, banana and sugar cane plantations and delightful fishing villages, beside the incredibly blue Atlantic waters. Views are spectacular with a wealth of wonderful flowers, both growing wild and in pretty gardens.

Tour of Bucegi and Piatra Craiului Mountains - Romania

Transylvania is surrounded by The Carpathians
Mountains. The unspoilt mountains with sharp rock
edges, large forests, beautiful fauna and flora make us
feel like there is nothing else more pleasant and relaxing
than trekking its paths.

Hunt the Highest Peaks- Romania

Moldoveanu Peak (2,544 m / 8,349 ft) situated in Fagaras Massif is the highest peak in Transylvania Mountains. In Romania there are more than 20 peaks above 2500 m and this is your opportunity to reach three of them. All three in just one week. Fagaras, Piatra Craiului and Bucegi Massifs are the three most different destinations we are offering you, thinking about the views, the rock types, and all these in just one week-time.

Inn to Inn Walking Tour - Slovenia

According to a legend a white chamois (Gold Horn) lived high up in the mountain in a magical garden. The Gold Horn guarded a treasure that greedy men wanted to get their hands on. One day a hunter set out to kill the Gold Horn and to claim the treasure. The greedy hunter tracked down the Chamois with the golden horn and wounded him with the gun. The Chamois was so furious that a human wanted to kill him and steal his treasure that he plugged his way through the mountains with his golden horn and was never seen again. This is how the Trenta valley was made. The treasure of the Gold horn still remains undiscovered somewhere in the Julian Alps. People still today come to the Julian Alps to seek the treasure but discover a different treasure, a treasure of natural beauty.