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Peru gains attention as a hiking hot spotBy Jeff Dugan PeruToYou.com | |
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| Outside Magazine, based in the United States, has announced its most exotic trips of the year. At the top of the list is a high-altitude adventure in Peru. |
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Outside Magazine's March issue has a cover story on its "Trip of the Year" awards for 10 exotic and hardy treks.
The best overall trip, according to the magazine editors, is a journey through ice and rock in the Cordilleras Raura, Huayhuash and Bianca ranges in Peru. The region north of Lima offers Inca ruins, the equatorial sun and high-altitude chills as part of the thrill. These ranges in the Andes Mountains have long been popular with the serious hikers and climbers from North America and Europe. Only in the past decade, however, has the area really gained in popularity and publicity. The other top regional trips on the magazine's list are climbing Mount Kenya in Africa, following in Ernest Shackleton's footsteps in Antarctica, backpacking the John Muir Trail along the spine of the Sierra in California, biking the Southern Hills of Italy, following the Lycian Way along the Mediterranean in Turkey, hiking and riding through the Tian Shan mountains in Kyrgystan, trekking the heart of Patagonia in Argentina, mountain-biking coast to coast in the Dominican Republic, and sailing and diving the Upper North Island in New Zealand. | |
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