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Stuart at Trail Spotting recommends the Kauai - Alaka’i Swamp Trail 11mi (17.7km). Hard.
… Take a westerly drive around Kauai until you run out of road and you’ll find yourself overlooking the plunging cliffs of Kalalau Valley on the fabled Na Pali Coast.
The only way to explore beyond this point by land is on […]

Friends just confirmed today they are spending 2wks on Kauai the end of March.
Of course, that got me thinking. …
This is the guidebook my friends are using. It has a pretty good overview of hikes on the island.

The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed
Other resources include this DVD: Hiking Hawaii: Kauai
And these guidebooks:
Kauai Trailblazer: […]

The only way to bring media attention to this great trek, I reckon:
Papua New Guinea’s historic Kokoda Trail has been closed to tourists until a dispute over a proposed copper mine is resolved, Australian media is reporting.
Local Koiari landowners have felled a tree across the track near the village of Naoro, 55km from Port […]

I loved the Lost City (Ciudad Perdida) hike when I was there in 1997. But it was somewhat dangerous.
No worries if you want to do it today. From a recent trip report:
… Darren and I took an overnight bus to Taganga, a tiny town on the Caribbean coast. We wanted to go on the […]

I loved the Lost City Trek — Ciudad Perdida — when I was there in 1997. It’s a steep climb up a lost jungle city.
Ten years later the adventure is much safer as Brian Rudert reports:
Just did the hike in 4 days/3nights …
The trail is safe, very safe – with a large Colombian military […]

The buttes and mesas of the Colorado Plateau remind me of those other “islands in the sky” — the tepuis of South America.

tepui art - CanyonsWorldwide.com
I’d really love to climb Roraima in Venezuela:
• bordering Venezuela, Brazil & Guyana, Roraima is remote
• it’s in the world’s largest national park — Canaima
• the highest tepui at 2810m […]

I don’t know much about this trek to the the highest point in Peninsular Malaysia, but it sounds great. This country without question is the most underestimated adventure destination in SE Asia.
The standard route is the Kuala Tahan trail — not recommended from what I can tell.
Of the other routes, instead hike the […]

Guidebook author Sandra Friend runs the Florida Hikes website. We’ve linked to it under WEBSITES on the right hand navigation.
She’s just revamped the site and it looks great.

Happily, Sandra will be advising besthike.com on the very best hikes in Florida. And will introduce us to other experts in the region.
She’s is always […]

Two French hikers who got lost in thick jungle in French Guiana survived for seven weeks by consuming turtle meat, big hairy spiders and river water.

The men were rescued on Thursday, exhausted and dehydrated.
Loic Pillois and Guilhem Nayral disappeared on 14 February, having set off from the Grand Kanori rapids bound for the village of […]

Though jungle treks have been popular in northern Thailand for decades, similar adventures in Laos are just starting to get popular.
Justine Vaisutis, Lonely Planet travel guidebook writer, published a brief article.

In a pocket of the world renowned for package holidays, shoestring extravagance and faux bling, Laos remains an unadulterated enigma. It’s the ideal asylum […]