Matera, Basilicata


Yeti Mountain Home, Nepal


Walking safari


with the focus as much on the landscape and smaller plant and animal life as the big five. Travel 2 reports a rise in popularity of walking safaris and are now including them as part of the two game activities offered per day to clients staying in South African private game reserves. Africa product manager Michael Creighton says: “Walks normally start at dawn and return around mid-morning, and there is no special fitness required. However, good walking shoes, a hat and a camera are important.”


A three-night full-board stay


with game-viewing activities at the three-star Shindzela Tented Bush Camp in Timbavati Private Nature Reserve starts from £269.


l MODERATE Walking along a road doesn’t sound particularly difficult, or even that thrilling, but all that changes when you realise the highway in question is the Great Wall of China. Intrepid Travel offers an eight-


day round-trip tour from Beijing that treks along different sections of the wall, including quiet


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Jinshanling, temple-rich Gubeikou, and Jiankou, where the hike along a path on top of a mountain path can be hazardous, and so is optional. Hiking up to six hours a day, clients will need a decent level of fitness, but stays are in three-star hotels and a homestay, so they won’t be really roughing it. Walks are enlivened by talks on Chinese history from the guide, and there’ll be the chance to taste some regional specialities. Prices start from £945. If their focus is more on living things than history, suggest Headwater’s 11-night Costa Rica Wildlife Walk, which will bring them face-to-face with everything from tree frogs and toucans to shy tapir and the rainbow- coloured quetzal. After trekking through the cloud forest clients will be able to relax in comfort in mountain lodges with


swimming pools, alongside lakeshores or in mountain villages. Prices start


from £2,267, including full-board accommodation, but excluding flights. Clients needn’t venture so


far away to push their walking to the next level, and trekking in less exotic locations can suit


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