Overseas - Aussie Bushwalking

Summary

We all know Australia is the place for bushwalking... New Zealand has some good tracks too... but surprisingly the rest of the world has some places worth visiting too! (imaging that!)

This is the place to share walks from outside of Australia/New Zealand.

Walks

Hard

42km

3.5days

Inca Trail

Beautiful hike past Inca Ruins to reach Machu Picchu.

Crete, Greece

Overseas

Hard

12.8km

6hrs

Samaria Gorge

The Samaria Gorge is the longest in Europe at 18km and the walk is one of the main sights on the island of Crete in Greece.

Haleakalā National Park

Overseas

Hard

6.8km

3hrs

Sliding Sands Trail

Hike down into the huge crater (11 km across) of an inactive volcano. The crater is mostly eroded. There are two gaps in the sides of the crater walls that water has eroded through over the centuries. The interior of the crater is sandy and desolate and contains many cinder cones (sand hills formed from smaller volcanic activity).

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Overseas

Normal

6.6km

3hrs

Kīlauea Iki

Kīlauea Iki is a smaller caldera located next to the larger more active Kīlauea caldera. Since the Kīlauea caldera floor has been closed to hikers due to volcanic activity, Kīlauea Iki is as close as you're going to get. The Kīlauea Iki trail starts on the crater rim and drops down to the caldera floor. You get to walk across the entire breadth of the caldera floor seeing different kinds of lava, stream vents, sulphur, and all that volcanic goodness.

v.Easy

1.6km

0.5hrs

Kīpukapuaulu

An island of forest that has been encircled by lava flows.

Easy

4km

2hrs

Napau Trail to Puʻu Huluhulu

Hike across lava to a crater.

v.Easy

2.8km

1hr

Sulphur Banks

Walk through an area concentrated with stream vents. The vents are piles of rocks and out of them pumps a constant flow steam and sulphur dioxide. You can get up right next to them. The gas coming out of them is warm to hot and suffocating. The rocks are covered in a coating of crystalline sulphur.

v.Easy

1.4km

0.5hrs