http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/03/more-great-walks-of-the-world/ Just another blogs.smithsonianmag.com site Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:57:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/2012/03/more-great-walks-of-the-world/#comment-352 frankie alessio Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:15:48 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/adventure/?p=1732#comment-352 You might like to add South Africa's Wild Coast to your list of hiking trails; it has roads extending to the shore, but not along it due to the low population and difficult terrain. Locals are more and more organizing "slack packing" trails -- you can sleep indoors, eat great food and let some one else carry your pack -- along the coast. Mostly the trails are rather short, but I wonder if it might not be possible to hike one after another and do the whole coast. A good book is Fiona McIntosh's Slackpacking A Guide to South Africa's Top Leisure Trails. You might like to add South Africa’s Wild Coast to your list of hiking trails; it has roads extending to the shore, but not along it due to the low population and difficult terrain. Locals are more and more organizing “slack packing” trails — you can sleep indoors, eat great food and let some one else carry your pack — along the coast. Mostly the trails are rather short, but I wonder if it might not be possible to hike one after another and do the whole coast. A good book is Fiona McIntosh’s Slackpacking A Guide to South Africa’s Top Leisure Trails.

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