Slow travel ideas: routes worth taking slowly
Long-distance rides, hut-to-hut trails, paddling circuits and island sailing, with journeys Pebbls explorers tracked there.
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- Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail · Cycling route · New Zealand
The Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail runs 315 km across the South Island of New Zealand, from the foot of Aoraki/Mount Cook to the harbour at Oamaru on the east coast… - Alta Via 1 · Hiking trail · Italy
The Alta Via 1 is the oldest and easiest of the numbered high routes through the Dolomites in north-east Italy. It runs south from Lago di Braies (Pragser… - Andaman Sea · Kayak & canoe · Thailand
This page covers Thailand’s Andaman coast between Phuket, Phang Nga Bay, Krabi and Ko Lanta. It’s a paddling area, not a fixed route. Most of the best water is… - Annapurna Base Camp Trek · Hiking trail · Nepal
The Annapurna Base Camp trek, also called the Annapurna Sanctuary trek, climbs from the foothills north-west of Pokhara into a glacial basin ringed by… - Annapurna Circuit by Bike · Cycling route · Nepal
There’s no official bike route round Annapurna. This page is the Annapurna Circuit, a long-established trek, ridden with a mountain bike. The circuit goes up… - Atlantic Coast Route – EuroVelo 1 · Cycling route · England, France, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Wales, Northern Ireland
EuroVelo 1, the Atlantic Coast Route, starts at North Cape in Norway and runs down the western side of Europe through Norway, the UK, Ireland, France, Spain… - Bay of Islands · Sailing route · New Zealand
There’s no set route through the Bay of Islands. It’s a sailing area: a drowned valley system on the east coast of Northland, about 16 km wide and 260 km² in… - Bibbulmun Track · Hiking trail · Australia
The Bibbulmun Track runs about 1,000 km through the south-west of Western Australia, from Kalamunda in the hills on the edge of Perth to Albany on the south… - Bowron Lake Canoe Circuit · Kayak & canoe · Canada
The Bowron Lake Canoe Circuit is a set 116 km loop of lakes, rivers and portage trails in Bowron Lake Provincial Park, in the Cariboo Mountains of east-central… - Camino de Santiago · Hiking trail · Spain, France
There isn’t one Camino de Santiago. Dozens of pilgrim routes lead to the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela, where tradition holds that the apostle St James… - Camino Francés by Bike · Cycling route · Spain, France
The Camino Francés is a walking pilgrim route: about 770 km from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France, over the Pyrenees and west across northern Spain through… - Camino Portugués by Bike · Cycling route · Portugal, Spain
The Camino Portugués runs north from Lisbon to the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela. The full central route is about 610 to 620 km, through Santarém, Tomar… - Cape to Cairo · Cycling route · Egypt, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi
Cycling Cape to Cairo means riding the length of Africa, roughly 11,000 km between Cape Town and the Pyramids of Giza. There’s no fixed route. The classic line… - Carretera Austral · Cycling route · Chile
The Carretera Austral (Route 7) runs about 1,240 km south through Chilean Patagonia, from Puerto Montt to Villa O’Higgins. The last 120 km, south of Puerto… - Channel Islands · Sailing route · Channel Islands
The Channel Islands lie off the Cotentin coast of Normandy, and there’s no set sailing route through them. Most people cruise between St Peter Port, Herm… - Chesapeake Bay · Sailing route · USA
Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States, about 320 km long from northern Maryland to its mouth on the Atlantic in Virginia. With its tidal… - Climbing Kilimanjaro · Hiking trail · Tanzania
There’s no single "Kilimanjaro trek". The mountain has several official routes to Uhuru Peak (5,895 m), the highest point in Africa, on the crater rim of Kibo… - Coast to Coast (C2C) · Cycling route · England
The C2C, or Sea to Sea, is a National Cycle Network route of about 220 km (137 miles) across northern England, from the Irish Sea in west Cumbria to the North… - Cordillera Huayhuash Circuit · Hiking trail · Peru
The Cordillera Huayhuash is a compact range in the Peruvian Andes, only about 30 km from north to south, but it holds seven peaks over 6,000 m. The highest is… - Cotswold Way · Hiking trail · England
The Cotswold Way is a 164 km National Trail along the Cotswold escarpment, from the market town of Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire to the centre of Bath… - Cycling across Kyushu, Beppu to Kumamoto · Cycling route · Japan
There’s no single official route called the Kyushu Cycling Trail. The Kyushu Tourism Organization publishes a set of mapped cycle routes, including a circuit… - Danube Cycle Path · Cycling route · Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia
The Danube Cycle Path is the river section of EuroVelo 6. Its best-known stretch runs about 320 km from Passau, on the German–Austrian border, to Vienna. In… - Dordogne River Canoe Trail · Kayak & canoe · France
There’s no official canoe trail on the Dordogne. The river runs 483 km from the Puy de Sancy in the Massif Central to the Gironde estuary north of Bordeaux… - Doubtful Sound / Patea · Kayak & canoe · New Zealand
There’s no set kayak route on Doubtful Sound / Patea. It’s a paddling area: a fiord in Fiordland National Park that runs about 40 km from Deep Cove to the… - Drakensberg Grand Traverse · Hiking trail · South Africa, Lesotho
There’s no official, marked trail called the Drakensberg Traverse. What hikers mean by it is the Drakensberg Grand Traverse, a route agreed among hikers along… - EuroVelo 6 - France to Romania · Cycling route · Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Switzerland, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria
EuroVelo 6, officially called "Atlantic – Black Sea", crosses Europe from west to east through ten countries. It starts at Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, at the mouth… - EuroVelo 7 – Sun Route · Cycling route · Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Malta, Norway, Sweden, Finland
EuroVelo 7 runs about 7,650 km from North Cape in Norway to Malta, through nine countries: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Czechia, Austria, Italy… - Everglades Wilderness Waterway · Kayak & canoe · USA
The Wilderness Waterway is a 99-mile (159 km) boating route through Everglades National Park in south-west Florida, set out by the National Park Service… - Fish River Canyon Trail · Hiking trail · Namibia
The Fish River Canyon in southern Namibia is about 160 km long and up to 550 m deep, and it’s generally described as the largest canyon in Africa. The hiking… - French Polynesia Circuit · Sailing route · French Polynesia
There’s no route called the French Polynesia Circuit. French Polynesia’s 121 islands are spread over more than 2,000 km of ocean. This page covers the group… - Garden Route · Cycling route · South Africa
The Garden Route is a stretch of coast, not a cycle route. There’s no official line or waymarking for riders. The name covers the shore of South Africa’s… - Great Ocean Road · Cycling route · Australia
The Great Ocean Road is a road, not a cycle route. It runs about 240 km along the coast of south-west Victoria, from Torquay to Allansford near Warrnambool… - Green River: Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons · Kayak & canoe · USA
This page covers a river section, not a waymarked route: the flatwater Green River in eastern Utah, from the town of Green River down through Labyrinth Canyon… - Ha Long Bay · Kayak & canoe · Vietnam
Ha Long Bay is a paddling and cruising area, not a set route. It covers about 1,553 km² of the Gulf of Tonkin in Quang Ninh province, with around 1,969… - Hadrian’s Wall Path · Hiking trail · England
The Hadrian’s Wall Path is an 84-mile (135 km) National Trail across northern England, from Wallsend on the Tyne to Bowness-on-Solway on the Solway Firth. It… - Hebridean Way · Cycling route · Scotland
The Hebridean Way is a signed cycle route of about 298 km (185 miles) down the length of the Outer Hebrides, from Vatersay in the south to the Butt of Lewis… - Hudson River · Kayak & canoe · USA
The Hudson River Greenway Water Trail is an official paddling route and a US National Water Trail, run by New York State’s Hudson River Valley Greenway. It… - Inca Trail · Hiking trail · Peru
The Classic Inca Trail is a 42 km walk from Km 82 (Piscacucho) in the Urubamba valley to Machu Picchu, usually done in four days with three nights camping. It… - Israel National Trail · Hiking trail · Israel
The Israel National Trail, Shvil Yisrael in Hebrew, is a waymarked footpath of just over 1,000 km from the slopes of Mount Hermon in the far north to Eilat on… - Katherine Gorge · Kayak & canoe · Australia
Katherine Gorge isn’t a set route. It’s a paddling area: 13 sandstone gorges on the Katherine River, joined by rapids and rocky bars over about 12 km, inside… - Kayaking Lake Powell · Kayak & canoe · USA
There’s no set kayak route on Lake Powell. It’s a paddling area: the reservoir behind Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, mostly in southern Utah with its… - Kayaking the Great Barrier Reef Islands · Kayak & canoe · Australia
There’s no single kayak route on the Great Barrier Reef, and for the most part you can’t paddle to the reef itself. It’s a system of more than 2,900 reefs and… - Kungsleden · Hiking trail · Sweden
Kungsleden runs about 440 km through Swedish Lapland, from Abisko in the north to Hemavan in the south. Roughly the northern half is above the Arctic Circle… - Kystriksveien - The Coastal Route · Cycling route · Norway
Kystriksveien is the everyday name for county road 17 (Fv17), which follows the Helgeland coast of Norway for about 630 km, from just north of Steinkjer in… - La Route Verte - Canada · Cycling route · Canada
La Route Verte isn’t one line but a network: more than 5,400 km of signed cycle routes across Quebec, set up by Vélo Québec from 1995 with the Quebec… - Land’s End to John o’ Groats · Cycling route · England, Scotland
Land’s End to John o’ Groats, often shortened to LEJOG, runs the length of Britain from the far west of Cornwall to Caithness in the north-east of Scotland… - Laugavegur Trail · Hiking trail · Iceland
The Laugavegur runs about 55 km through the Fjallabak Nature Reserve in Iceland’s southern highlands, from the hot springs at Landmannalaugar to the green… - Loch Lomond · Kayak & canoe · Scotland
Loch Lomond has no official canoe trail. It’s a paddling area: you launch from one of the car parks or slipways and plan your own day trip or island-hopping… - Lofoten Islands Cycling Route · Cycling route · Norway
The ride through Lofoten follows the E10, the one main road along the islands, from Å at the south-western tip through Reine, Ramberg and Leknes to Svolvær… - Makalu Base Camp Trek · Hiking trail · Nepal
This trek goes up the Barun Valley in eastern Nepal to the base camp below Makalu, which at 8,485 m is the world’s fifth-highest mountain. Most people fly from… - Marlborough Sounds · Kayak & canoe · New Zealand
There’s no set paddling route in the Marlborough Sounds. It’s a paddling area of sea-drowned valleys at the top of the South Island, about 4,000 km² of water… - Mediterranean sailing grounds · Sailing route · Croatia, Greece, Italy, Turkey
There’s no single route linking these four countries. The page covers the main cruising grounds in each: the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, the Ionian islands and… - Munda Biddi Trail · Cycling route · Australia
The Munda Biddi Trail is a marked off-road cycle trail running about 1,070 km through the south-west of Western Australia, from Mundaring in the hills 34 km… - Norfolk Broads · Kayak & canoe · England
There’s no single paddling route through the Broads. It’s a paddling area: seven rivers and 63 broads (shallow lakes) in Norfolk and Suffolk, with more than… - North Coast 500 by bike · Cycling route · Scotland
The North Coast 500 is a road-trip route, not a cycle route. It was launched in 2015 to link the far north of the Highlands into one touring loop of 516 miles… - Norwegian Fjords · Sailing route · Norway
There’s no single fjord sailing route. Most trips start in Bergen and head for the big fjords of western Norway. The Sognefjord begins north of the city and… - Otago Central Rail Trail · Cycling route · New Zealand
The Otago Central Rail Trail is a 152 km gravel trail between Clyde and Middlemarch in the South Island of New Zealand. It follows the old Otago Central… - Overland Track · Hiking trail · Australia
The Overland Track runs 65 km through Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park in Tasmania’s Central Highlands, from Ronny Creek near Cradle Mountain in the… - Pacific Coast Bike Route · Cycling route · Canada, USA
The Pacific Coast route is Adventure Cycling Association’s mapped bike route from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Border Field State Park at Imperial Beach… - Pindus Way · Hiking trail · Greece
There’s no official, signed national trail called the Pindus Way. The name and the line come from Tim Salmon and Michael Cullen’s Cicerone guide Trekking in… - Rim of Africa · Hiking trail · South Africa
Rim of Africa is a guided mountain traverse, not an open trail. The Rim of Africa Trust, a South African non-profit, runs it once a year from 24 September to… - Rota Vicentina · Hiking trail · Portugal
The Rota Vicentina is a signed network of walking trails in south-west Portugal, run by the Rota Vicentina Association. It has two long routes. The Historical… - Sailing the Whitsundays · Sailing route · Australia
There’s no set sailing route through the Whitsundays. It’s a cruising area: 74 continental islands off the central Queensland coast, most of them uninhabited… - Salar de Uyuni Cycling Route · Cycling route · Bolivia
There’s no marked or official cycling route across the Salar de Uyuni. The world’s largest salt flat covers about 10,582 km² at around 3,656 m in south-west… - Sea kayaking the San Juan Islands · Kayak & canoe · USA
There’s no single kayak route through the San Juan Islands. It’s a paddling area: an archipelago in the far north-west of Washington State, between the… - Shannon River · Kayak & canoe · Ireland
The Shannon is Ireland’s longest river. It runs about 360 km from the Shannon Pot in County Cavan to Limerick, where it widens into a long estuary. It falls… - Snowman Trek · Hiking trail · Bhutan
The Snowman Trek crosses the high north of Bhutan near the Tibetan border, through Jigme Dorji National Park and the remote Lunana region. Most itineraries… - Sognefjord · Kayak & canoe · Norway
The Sognefjord is Norway’s longest and deepest fjord, running 205 km inland from the coast at Solund to Skjolden, below the Jotunheimen mountains, and over… - South West Coast Path · Hiking trail · England
The South West Coast Path is a 630-mile (1,014 km) National Trail around the south-west peninsula of England. It starts at a marker on the seafront at Minehead… - Southern Patagonia by bike · Cycling route · Argentina, Chile
There’s no route called the Patagonia Expedition Route. This page suggests a ride through southern Patagonia that links the mountains of Los Glaciares National… - St. Olav's Way, Oslo to Trondheim · Hiking trail · Norway
St. Olav’s Way is a network of nine pilgrim routes that all end at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, built over the grave of King Olav II, who died at the Battle… - Stockholm Archipelago · Sailing route · Sweden
The Stockholm archipelago is Sweden’s largest, reaching about 60 km east from the city and running from Väddö in the north to Öja, south of Nynäshamn. One… - Tasmanian Trail · Cycling route · Australia
The Tasmanian Trail is a 480 km multi-use trail for walkers, mountain bikers and horse riders, running north to south through Tasmania from Devonport to Dover… - Te Araroa Trail · Hiking trail · New Zealand
Te Araroa ("the long pathway") runs about 3,000 km down both main islands of New Zealand, from Te Rerenga Wairua (Cape Reinga) to Motupōhue (Bluff). It opened… - The Alpe-Adria Cycle Path · Cycling route · Austria, Italy
The Alpe-Adria cycle path runs about 410 km from Salzburg to Grado on the Adriatic, crossing the main ridge of the Alps on the way. It is usually ridden in… - The Appalachian Trail · Hiking trail · USA
The Appalachian Trail runs 3,537 km (2,197.9 miles) along the Appalachian Mountains, from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Katahdin in Maine’s Baxter State… - The Boundary Waters Canoe Area · Kayak & canoe · USA
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) is a paddling area, not a single route. It covers about 1.1 million acres (4,400 square km) of lakes, rivers… - The Cabot Trail · Cycling route · Canada
The Cabot Trail is a road, not a cycle route. It’s a 298 km loop round the northern tip of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, made up of Trunk 30 and a short… - The Continental Divide Trail · Hiking trail · USA, Canada
The Continental Divide Trail runs about 4,900 km (roughly 3,000 to 3,100 miles) along the Rocky Mountains from the Mexican border in New Mexico’s Bootheel to… - The Dalmatian Coast · Sailing route · Croatia
There’s no set sailing route along the Dalmatian coast. Dalmatia is the southern half of Croatia’s Adriatic shore, from the island of Rab down past Dubrovnik… - The Death Road · Cycling route · Bolivia
The Death Road is the old North Yungas Road in Bolivia. It isn’t a purpose-built bike route. It’s a 1930s road that drops from the La Cumbre pass, at about… - The Eifelsteig · Hiking trail · Germany
The Eifelsteig is a 313 km waymarked walking trail across the Eifel uplands of western Germany, from Kornelimünster on the edge of Aachen to Trier on the… - The Everest Base Camp Trek · Hiking trail · Nepal
The Everest Base Camp trek starts and finishes at Lukla, an airstrip at 2,845 m in the Solukhumbu district of north-east Nepal, and climbs up the Dudh Kosi and… - The Friendship Highway · Cycling route · People's Republic of China, Tibet, Nepal
The Friendship Highway is the road from Lhasa to the Nepal border, about 800 km long, and forms the western end of China’s G318. It runs through Shigatse… - The GR20 · Hiking trail · Corsica, France
The GR20 crosses the mountains of Corsica from Calenzana in the north to Conca in the south, about 180 km with roughly 11,000 m of ascent. It’s usually… - The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route · Cycling route · Canada, USA
The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route follows the Rocky Mountains from Canada to the Mexican border. It was mapped by the Adventure Cycling Association and… - The Great Ocean Walk · Hiking trail · Australia
The Great Ocean Walk runs a little over 100 km along the coast of south-west Victoria, from Apollo Bay to the Twelve Apostles. It opened in January 2006 and… - The Haute Route · Hiking trail · France, Switzerland
The walkers’ Haute Route goes from Chamonix in France to Zermatt in Switzerland, from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn. Almost all of it is in the Swiss canton of… - The Loire Valley · Cycling route · France
La Loire à Vélo is a signed cycle route that follows the Loire for about 900 km, from Cuffy near Nevers to Saint-Brevin-les-Pins on the Atlantic, opposite… - The Lycian Way · Hiking trail · Turkey
The Lycian Way (Likya Yolu) is a waymarked footpath of about 760 km round the coast and hills of ancient Lycia in south-west Turkey, from Ölüdeniz near Fethiye… - The Mekong River · Kayak & canoe · Cambodia, Vietnam
There’s no set route down the lower Mekong, and it isn’t really a paddling trip. This page covers the river’s last stretch through Cambodia and the Mekong… - The Pacific Crest Trail · Hiking trail · USA
The Pacific Crest Trail runs about 4,265 km (2,650 miles) from the Mexican border near Campo, California, to the Canadian border beside E. C. Manning… - The Pennine Way · Hiking trail · England, Scotland
The Pennine Way runs 431 km up the Pennine hills from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, just over the border in Scotland. It was England’s first… - The Rhine Route - EuroVelo 15 · Cycling route · France, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein
EuroVelo 15, the Rhine Cycle Route, follows the Rhine for about 1,233 km from Andermatt in the Swiss Alps to Hoek van Holland on the North Sea, now part of… - The Shimanami Kaido · Cycling route · Japan
The Shimanami Kaido is a 70 km cycle route between Onomichi on Honshu and Imabari on Shikoku. It crosses six islands in the Seto Inland Sea: Mukaishima… - The Wicklow Way · Hiking trail · Ireland
The Wicklow Way is a 128 km National Waymarked Trail from Marlay Park, on the southern edge of Dublin, to the village of Clonegal in County Carlow. It was the… - Tour du Mont Blanc · Hiking trail · France, Italy, Switzerland
The Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB) is a loop of about 170 km round the Mont Blanc massif, through France, Italy and Switzerland, with around 10,000 m of climbing… - TransAmerica Trail · Cycling route · USA
The TransAmerica Trail is the Adventure Cycling Association’s coast-to-coast road route, first ridden by about 4,000 cyclists in the Bikecentennial of 1976. It… - Via Claudia Augusta · Cycling route · Austria, Italy, Germany
The Via Claudia Augusta cycle route follows the line of a Roman road across the Alps, from Donauwörth on the Danube in Bavaria to the Adriatic near Venice… - W Trek in Torres del Paine · Hiking trail · Chile
The W is the main multi-day trek in Torres del Paine National Park, in Chilean Patagonia, and gets its name from its shape on the map. It runs along the south… - West Highland Way · Hiking trail · Scotland
The West Highland Way runs 154 km (96 miles) from Milngavie, on the northern edge of Glasgow, to Fort William. It opened in 1980 as Scotland’s first officially… - Whitsundays · Kayak & canoe · Australia
There’s no set kayak route through the Whitsundays. It’s a paddling area: 74 continental islands off the central Queensland coast, about 900 km north of… - Wild Atlantic Way · Cycling route · Ireland
The Wild Atlantic Way is a signed coastal driving route of about 2,500 km down the west coast of Ireland, set up by Fáilte Ireland in 2014. It officially…