Routes tagged
Wildlife
9 routes
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Photo: Jotpe · CC BY-SA 4.0Trek IsraelAgamon Hula — The Cranes of the Hula Valley
A flat circuit of the restored lake in the Hula Valley, one of the great bottlenecks of the Europe–Africa flyway, where tens of thousands of common cranes spend the winter within metres of a covered hide.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8.5 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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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: 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: Sebastián Saiter V. · CC BY 4.0Attraction USAAquatica Orlando: The Water Park With Dolphins in the Plumbing
SeaWorld's South-Seas water park on the I-Drive corridor — a clear slide through a lagoon of Commerson's dolphins, twin wave pools, dueling rivers and one of Orlando's best kids' water fortresses.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: NASA · Public domainAttraction USADiscovery Cove: The Day Orlando Slows Down
A reservation-only, all-inclusive swim resort across the road from SeaWorld — snorkel a reef of rays, drift a warm river into a walk-through aviary, and add a dolphin swim if you book it in time.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 2 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: The original uploader was Bobak at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5Attraction USAGatorland: Old Florida, Still Biting
The self-styled Alligator Capital of the World, open since 1949 — gator-wrestling kitsch out front, a genuinely wild breeding marsh and bird rookery out back, and a zip line over the whole toothy lot.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 4 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Marc Averette (talk) · CC BY-SA 1.0Attraction USAOrlando Science Center: The City's Rainy-Day Ace
Four floors of hands-on science in Loch Haven Park — indoor alligators, a brilliant under-7 floor, dinosaur digs and Florida's largest public telescope, ten minutes north of downtown.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 3 km
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Photo: Jeremy Thompson · CC BY 2.0Attraction USASeaWorld Orlando: The Coaster Park That Keeps Whales
One day at Orlando's quiet thrill capital — Mako, Kraken and Manta before the queues build, marine habitats through the midday heat, Sesame Street for the kids, and orcas at the stadiums to finish.
- Duration
- 1 day
- Distance
- 8 km
- Difficulty
- Easy