This fully updated, comprehensive hiking guide is the most trusted resource available for hiking trails in the White Mountain National Forest. Includes three high-quality, GPS-rendered, pull-out maps.

This guidebook presents 50 half-day and day walks in Mallorca's Serra de Tramuntana, the striking limestone range that stretches along the northwestern flank of the island. Whilst the region promises breathtaking scenery and some fantastic walks, there is also some potentially challenging terrain, making guidance when choosing, planning and walking the routes all the more valuable. As many involve steep ground, navigational challenge and hands-on scrambling, these routes are primarily geared towards those with some experience of mountain walking. Comprehensive route description is illustrated with 1:25,000 Alpina mapping and each walk includes a statistics box to aid route selection. Useful contacts are listed in the appendix. There is also background information on history, plants and wildlife, plus language notes in native Catalan and Castilian Spanish. The routes are spread across the Serra de Tramuntana, with characterful towns and villages such as Sóller, Deià, Fornalutx, Valldemossa and Pollença serving as potential bases for a walking holiday. Ranging from 5.5km to 24km, the carefully selected routes showcase the region's rugged limestone peaks, mountain and coastal vistas and rich mountain heritage manifested in numerous drystone constructions, charcoal-burning sites and irrigation systems. Highlights include the lush island of sa Dragonera and the dramatic gorge of Torrent de Pareis. The majority of walks are accessible by public transport and many can be linked, opening up further possibilities for exploration.

Whether it be through far-flung deserts, luxuriant forests or majestic alpine terrain, when we choose to walk rather than fly or drive, something wonderful happens: our awareness and appreciation of the natural world begins to grow. It can be the faint sound of a gently meandering stream, the distinct smell of decaying leaves on a crisp autumn morning, or even a bowl of cereal that never tasted better than when eaten on a mountaintop at sunrise. Whatever your hiking dreams and goals may be, this book will inspire you to plan and realize your your journeys.

51-year-old Jean Deeds left her comfortable life for a 2,000 mile journey along the Appalachian Trail.

With this detailed guide, you save valuable time when you plan your hiking adventure in Jordan. Over a period of three years, the authors have explored and recorded over 400 km (248 miles) of astonishing hiking trails and walks in amazing landscapes. Most trails can be completed in 4-6 hours as day trips from Amman, Wadi Rum village or Aqaba and are in and around Jordan’s main tourist attractions including Petra, Wadi Rum, Aqaba and the Dead Sea area. Trails include the Seven Pillars of Wisdom and the Lawrence of Arabia Spring trails with magnificent views in Wadi Rum and the High Place of Sacrifice Trail with more monuments than most tourists see in Petra. Other highlights include the Wadi Ghuweir to Feynan Trail with its remarkable oasis and narrow canyon and the Wadi Mujib Malaqi Trail that has a waterfall near the lowest point on earth at the Dead Sea. The book provides easy to understand custom-made hiking maps, trail descriptions and travel directions. Users of the book also have access to a unique collection of 80+ tutorials, trail animations and hiking videos in HD format and interactive maps. Although most trails can be completed without a GPS device, owners of the book can download 58 carefully recorded E-trails to maximize their time on the trail using GPS enabled smart phones and tablets. Users of the book also have access to the Day Trip Finder and the Itinerary Planner. These interactive planning tools provide hikers easy access to trail descriptions based on a large number of search criteria including hot springs, waterfalls, sand dunes, palm trees, historic sites, and other interesting places on the trail. The guidebook has been written with the independent traveler in mind, but is also a valuable source of hiking ideas if you plan to organize your holiday with a travel company. Travelers will find Hiking in Jordan and its multimedia resources an invaluable “next generation” resource guide to explore the country from a truly unique perspective. The following trails are described: 1. Ajloun Castle Circuit 2. Ajloun Castle Trail 3. Pella Mountain Trail 4. Wadi Zubia Forest Walk 5. Dana Feynan Trail 6. Little Petra Canyon Trail 7. Mukawir Mini Circuit 8. Petra High Place of Sacrifice Trail 8+ Petra High Place of Sacrifice Trail to Little Petra 9. Petra Monastery Trail 9+ Petra Monastery Trail to Little Petra 10. Rummana Mountain Trail 11. Wadi Bin Hammad Tropical Rain Forest Trail 12. Wadi Ghuweir Trail to Feynan 13. Wadi Al Karak Waterfalls 14. Wadi Assal 15. Wadi Attun Hot Springs Trail 16. Wadi Himara Palm Trees and Waterfall Trail 17. Wadi Himara Panorama Trail 18. Wadi Mujib Malaqi Trail 19. Wadi Mujib Siq Trail 20. Wadi Mukheiris Formation Trail 21. Wadi Numeira Siq Trail 22. Wadi Weida'a 23. Abu Barqa Dam Lookout 24. Adami Trail-Jordan's Tallest Mountain 25. Bedouin Camp Circuit 26. Burial Mound and Oryx Trail 27. French Fortress Trail 28. Ibex Canyon Lookout 29. Lawrence of Arabia Spring 30. Nabatean Temple Trail 31. Rahma Bedouin Camel Trail 32. Seven Pillars of Wisdom More information: www.hiking-in-jordan.com Hiking, Walking, Jordan, Petra, Wadi Rum, Dead Sea, GPS, Maps, Day Trips, Amman, Ajloun, Aqaba, Jerash, Karak, Outdoors, Hiking Videos, Hiking Maps, Hiking Tutorials, Smart Phone GPS, Tablet GPS, Waypoint, Elevation Graphs, GPS Coordinates

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