Best hikes, treks, tramps in the world.
Trip report by BestHike editor Rick McCharles
On our tour to Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we stopped for about 90 minutes to enjoy one of the most beautiful waterfalls I’ve ever seen.
Kravica Waterfall is a big tourist attraction. Unlike many of these scenic cascades around the world, you can swim and boat in this one.
I couldn’t resist. 😀
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John Muir Trail is one of our top 10 hikes in the world.
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If there’s a hiker’s paradise on earth, it’s the JMT in the Sierra Nevadas.
213 miles without a road. Fantastic weather. 11 high passes. Unbelievable nonstop vistas. And Mt Whitney.
Read more on our John Muir Trail information page.
Hole in the Wall, a short day hike, is a is fast becoming a major attraction for the Vancouver Island community.
The hole is all that remains of a decades old water line.
Click PLAY or watch my 2023 video on YouTube. At dawn I had the waterfalls to myself.
Check in at the Port Alberni Visitor Centre for directions.
Parking can be difficult though the trail itself is only an easy 1.3km return walk.
Rather than following the normal route as posted on AllTrails Port Alberni Hole in the Wall, I walked instead from an industrial park end of Sherwood Road.
Definitely muddier and less traveled, I did find it interesting. Nobody else parked there.
Here are the rough trails as shown on Maps.me.
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Quincy, originally from Australia, has been living out of his vehicle, touring Vancouver Island with the goal of seeing all the major waterfalls.
Vancouver Island is home to some of the wettest conditions in Canada, with some regions experiencing more annual rainfall than anywhere else in North America.
It’s no surprise that the result is an island that is covered in a dense forest of giant trees, ferns, and mosses, as well as raging rivers and gorgeous waterfalls that cascade down lush slopes from high mountain peaks.
Waterfall chasing is a popular pasttime here, and one of the best things to do on Vancouver Island.
There are so many fantastic waterfalls, of varying accessibility levels, that it can be hard to know where to start. From easily accessible roadside waterfalls right near cities to ones requiring longer treks, there are tons to choose from. I’ve compiled a list of all the Vancouver Island waterfalls I’ve been lucky enough to visit, and will continue to update this blog post as I visit more. …
35 AWESOME VANCOUVER ISLAND WATERFALLS
I’ve hiked a lot on Vancouver Island and have only seen a small percentage of these on Quincy’s list.
For example, I hadn’t realized there was a Niagara Falls on Vancouver Island. Easily confused with the much more famous falls on the border of Ontario and New York State.
I really, really want to get back to Iceland.
Especially after watching this inspirational edit.
Magical.
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An ideal day hike on Canada’s west coast — any month of the year — is our #8 video of 2022.
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I’ve always dreamed about hiking the world’s highest waterfall — but this VIDEO is the closest I’ve gotten, so far. 😀
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Trip report by BestHike editor Rick McCharles
Many, many times I’ve walked and run the spectacular 2km loop at Englishman River Falls Provincial Park near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
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Click PLAY or watch a tourist promotion on YouTube. Water is high in this video.
The Drakensberg escarpment stretches for more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles). Some of the best hiking in Africa.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. One of the best hiking videos I can recall. Ever.
Harmen Hoek:
In March 2022 I solo hiked for 8-days in the Drakensberg mountains on the border of South Africa and Lesotho.
My route started in Cathedral Peak in uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.
I hiked up to the escarpment via Organ Pipes Pass where I headed north towards the Mnweni area. I got down the escarpment via Rockeries Pass for resupplies and back up (bushwacking) via Fangs Pass.
North at the top of Tugela Falls in the Amphitheater of Royal Natal National Park I met up with my dad to spend one last night up the escarpment.
We got down via the infamous Sentinel Ladder.
Favorite hike in the world. The weather, terrain, views, people and remoteness make this hike really unique. Also the most challenging hike to date.
Gocta (Spanish: Catarata del Gocta) is a perennial waterfall with two drops located in Peru‘s province of Bongara in Amazonas, …
… its existence was not made known to the world until after an expedition made in 2002 by a German, Stefan Ziemendorff, with a group of Peruvian explorers. …
Citing various encyclopedias, reference books, and webpages accessible through Google, Gocta Cataracts are unofficially listed as the world’s fifth-tallest, after adding Ramnefjellsfossen (Norway) and Mongefossen (Norway).
Furthermore, The World Waterfall Database ranks Gocta as the 16th tallest. …
Tourists can now hike the trails by foot or horse to the misty base of the waterfall. The nearby town of Chachapoyas is located at an altitude of 2,235 meters (7,333 feet).
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