Routes tagged
Desert
13 routes
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Photo: Hanan epstein · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelEin Avdat: The White Canyon of Zin
A short, vertical day in the Negev — a white chalk gorge with a 15-metre waterfall, spring-fed pools, Byzantine monks' caves and a ladder climb out onto the rim above the Wilderness of Zin.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 5 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Jan Helebrant · CC0Trek IsraelEin Gedi Nature Reserve: Nahal David and the David Waterfall
A short, water-rich hike up a desert canyon to the David Waterfall, then higher to a hidden cave, a spring and a 5,000-year-old temple above the Dead Sea.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Asaf T. · Public domainCity walk IsraelHerodium: Herod's Cone-Shaped Palace-Fortress
A single day at the mountain Herod the Great raised for himself in the desert — the climb up the artificial cone, the round towers, the theatre with its royal box, the Bar Kokhba tunnels and the tomb.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: אורן פלס · CC BY 2.5Trek IsraelIsrael National Trail: Five-Day Highlights
The most beautiful five days of the 1,100 km Israel National Trail — the Galilee ridges, Mount Carmel, the Wilderness of Zin, the Ramon Crater and the Eilat Mountains down to the Red Sea.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Distance
- 92 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Sergey Pesterev · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek TanzaniaKilimanjaro: The Machame Route to Uhuru Peak
Six days from rainforest to glaciers on the 'Whiskey Route', the most scenic way up Kilimanjaro, camping from gate to gate and topping out at Uhuru Peak (5,895 m), the roof of Africa.
- Duration
- 6 days
- Distance
- 62 km
- Difficulty
- Expert
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Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelMakhtesh Ramon — Rim to Crater Floor
One to two days in the world's largest erosion crater: the rim promenade at Mitzpe Ramon, the prismatic stone columns of the Carpentry, the coloured sands of the Ardon valley and the desert spring at Ein Saharonim.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 18 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Godot13 · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelMasada Snake Path: Sunrise Ascent to the Desert Fortress
A pre-dawn climb up the winding Snake Path from the Dead Sea shore to reach Herod's cliff-top fortress just as the sun breaks over the desert.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: BenAveling · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek ItalyMount Etna from the South — Rifugio Sapienza to the Summit Craters
A single big day on Europe's most active volcano: lava cones at the road head, a cable car into the ash desert, and a guided walk to the steaming summit craters above the Valle del Bove.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 12 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: SimonKing74 · CC0Trek MoroccoMount Toubkal — North Africa's Highest Summit
Two days from a Berber village to the roof of North Africa at 4,167 m — mule tracks, a blue-painted shrine, a mountain refuge, and a long scree climb to a summit that sees the Sahara.
- Duration
- 2 days
- Distance
- 30 km
- Difficulty
- Hard
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Photo: Azurfrog · CC BY-SA 3.0Trek JordanPetra on Foot: The Siq, the Treasury and the Monastery
A long, rewarding day walking into the Nabataean rose-red city — through the Siq to the Treasury, past the Royal Tombs, and up 800 steps to the Monastery.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 14 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Tamarah · CC BY-SA 2.5City walk IsraelQumran: The Settlement of the Dead Sea Scrolls
A single day on the marl plateau above the Dead Sea, where the caves gave up the Dead Sea Scrolls — the ruined settlement, the ritual baths, the scriptorium, the water system and the long argument over who lived here.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 1.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Andreas Tille · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IcelandThe Laugavegur Trail — Landmannalaugar to Þórsmörk
Four days across Iceland's southern highlands, from the rhyolite mountains and hot springs of Landmannalaugar over an obsidian plateau and black-sand deserts to the birch woods of Þórsmörk.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Distance
- 55 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate
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Photo: Little Savage · Public domainTrek IsraelTimna Park — Copper, Sandstone and Solomon's Pillars
A full day threading the red sandstone of the southern Negev: the Mushroom, the Arches, ancient Egyptian copper mines and rock carvings, and the towering Solomon's Pillars.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 10 km
- Difficulty
- Moderate