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Hiking the Camino de Santiago Route – Top 7 Sights and Experiences
The world famous Camino Frances hiking route along the greater Camino de Santiago is located in the very northwest corner of Spain and is an iconic pilgrimage route dating back [...]
The Best Adventure Films
I posed the question to the rest of the Hillwalk Tours office: What is your favourite adventure film? I got an impressive list back, including Chicken Run.
Hiking in Scotland – It’s easier than you think!
To the uninitiated, the prospect of hiking through the wilds of northern Scotland may seem quite daunting. And I wouldn’t blame you myself! What with the soaring crags of Ben [...]
The South Downs Way – 6 Perfect Reasons To Visit
The South Downs Way is located directly south of London and sees walkers journeying a total of 160 kms (100 miles) when undertaking the entire route. Our new tours there [...]
3 Reasons to Hike Connemara
If you somehow haven’t heard the big news yet (we’ve had a major build up here in Galway over the past couple of years), 2020 is the year in which [...]
Top 5 Tips for Navigation from a Former Army Officer
Although the prevalence of GPS-capable smartphones is a massive leap forward for hikers and hillwalkers in recent years, you should never to allow yourself to become too complacent. As I’ve [...]
A Guide to Hiking the Aran Islands (Inis Mor)
Inis Mor is a popular location on our West of Ireland / Connemara tours so in this blog, we dive deeper into what makes Inis Mor, and the Aran Islands [...]
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path in Wales – 5 Trail Highlights
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path is one of the official National Trails in England and Wales, winding along some of the very best British coastline for 300km (186m). Our walking tours [...]
8 Perfect Reasons to Start Hiking in Ireland
With a new year comes an opportunity to start afresh and embrace a ‘new you’ as well. To some of us that may mean travelling to new places, or exercising [...]