Comments on: The world’s best walk http://matadornetwork.com/sports/the-worlds-best-walk/ travel culture worldwide Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fanny-Lou http://matadornetwork.com/sports/the-worlds-best-walk/#comment-43020 Fanny-Lou Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:27:23 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=2485#comment-43020 Hi, For me, the best walk is the Robert Louis Stevenson Way in France, rated by Forbes Traveler as a World’s Most Famous Travel Adventure! Please see: http://www.forbestraveler.com/adventure/most-famous-adventures-slide-9.html?thisSpeed=25000 Stevenson walked the 156-mile trail in south central France in 1878, and published ‘Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes’ a year later. Not only was it one of his earliest works, and much admired by John Steinbeck, but it is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature, setting the standard for the whole travelogue genre. By presenting hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity, Stevenson's hiking was in many respects the catalyst for the whole back-to-nature and modern hiking movement. A must! Fanny-Lou Hi,

For me, the best walk is the Robert Louis Stevenson Way in France, rated by Forbes Traveler as a World’s Most Famous Travel Adventure!

Please see:
http://www.forbestraveler.com/adventure/most-famous-adventures-slide-9.html?thisSpeed=25000

Stevenson walked the 156-mile trail in south central France in 1878, and published ‘Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes’ a year later. Not only was it one of his earliest works, and much admired by John Steinbeck, but it is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature, setting the standard for the whole travelogue genre. By presenting hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity, Stevenson’s hiking was in many respects the catalyst for the whole back-to-nature and modern hiking movement.

A must!

Fanny-Lou

]]> By: Ahimsa http://matadornetwork.com/sports/the-worlds-best-walk/#comment-43014 Ahimsa Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:56:09 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=2485#comment-43014 I like where you are going with this thought. Really, wherever you are it's just a different part of the same walk, isn't it? That's a bit glib as a desert is going to be vastly different experience when compared to a city, or a forest, or a glacier, but how do you compare such different things? Unless you are keeping statistics, there's no way to quantify "best" and even then it's a subjective thing. I think I say "favorite" rather than "best." And I'm sad I didn't make it to Jeju this year ... but I have had some great walks in Seoul and around Korea. The Milford, btw, did not disappoint me last year one bit. But I don't think it's the best hike I've ever been on. And maybe not even the best hike In New Zealand. I like where you are going with this thought. Really, wherever you are it’s just a different part of the same walk, isn’t it? That’s a bit glib as a desert is going to be vastly different experience when compared to a city, or a forest, or a glacier, but how do you compare such different things?

Unless you are keeping statistics, there’s no way to quantify “best” and even then it’s a subjective thing. I think I say “favorite” rather than “best.” And I’m sad I didn’t make it to Jeju this year … but I have had some great walks in Seoul and around Korea.

The Milford, btw, did not disappoint me last year one bit. But I don’t think it’s the best hike I’ve ever been on. And maybe not even the best hike In New Zealand.

]]> By: Turner http://matadornetwork.com/sports/the-worlds-best-walk/#comment-43007 Turner Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:34:48 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=2485#comment-43007 No, I suppose each walk is different. I'm so psyched about signing up to walk the Milford Track in New Zealand, supposedly the most beautiful walk the world has ever known, yet I wonder if it will measure up with the hype. No, I suppose each walk is different. I’m so psyched about signing up to walk the Milford Track in New Zealand, supposedly the most beautiful walk the world has ever known, yet I wonder if it will measure up with the hype.

]]> By: josh johnson http://matadornetwork.com/sports/the-worlds-best-walk/#comment-42997 josh johnson Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:31:06 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=2485#comment-42997 My best walk is the one I am on. I think I will take one now ;) My best walk is the one I am on.

I think I will take one now
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