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AMALFI COAST WALKING TOUR

8-day, 7-night, “moderate-level” trek in ITALY, Sept. 29-Oct. 6, 2017 & April 22-29, 2018. Group limit, 10. Highlights: Travel from Naples airport to ruins of Pompeii/in Paestum, Greek temple ruins/Valle delle Ferriere Natural Reserve/9th-century Amalfi Cathedral/Positano/hydrofoil to Capri/Punta Campanella. From €3,475 (near $3,720) ppdo. Single supp., €350 ($381). Caspin Journeys (65 Randall Rd., Kenilworth, England, CV8 1JX, U.K.; in US & Canada, 800/908-1980, www.caspin.com).

“GORILLA TREKKING IN RWANDA”

 9 days, 8 nights. Departures July 6, July 14 & Dec. 1, 2017, and  Feb. 9, 2018. Group limit, 12. Highlights: In Kigali, shop at market for cooking lesson/in Virunga National Park, track gorillas, golden monkeys/at Lake Kivu, coffee-processing facility/Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. Ppdo, $4,800 (July) or $4,940 (Dec., Feb.), including gorilla permit. Single supp., $606. Gondwana Ecotours (New Orleans, LA; 877/587-8479, gondwanaecotours.com).

Day pack hiking tours

Kip Sturdevan of Encinitas, California, wrote, “Several of our friends have taken walking tours on which the organizing companies have arranged accommodations and made sure the luggage was moved every day to the next night’s lodging, thus allowing the walkers to carry only day packs. Each day’s hike tended to vary from 7 to 14 miles.

Day pack hiking tours

Kip Sturdevan of Encinitas, California, wrote, “Several of our friends have taken walking tours on which the organizing companies have arranged accommodations and made sure the luggage was moved every day to the next night’s lodging, thus allowing the walkers to carry only day packs. Each day’s hike tended to vary from 7 to 14 miles.

“SPAIN & FRANCE: HIKING THE BASQUE COUNTRY”

 9-day, 8-night, moderate-level trek (5-8 miles a day), Sept. 23-Oct. 1, 2017. Highlights: Meet in Hondarribia, Spain/clifftop walk by Bay of Biscay/hike through fishing villages to San Sebastián/views of Pyrenees on GR11 path/witch lore in Urdax/Basque village of Sare, France/at Bidarry, climb to 3,000 feet/Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in Pyrenees foothills. $4,595 ppdo. AdventureWomen (Watertown, MA; 800/804-8686, www.adventurewomen.com).

Sheepwalking in Wales

Visitors to Wales can hike with a wooly friend on the “Sheep Trekking” day trip in Brecon Beacons National Park offered by Good Day Out (Bishop House, 10 Wheat St., Brecon, Wales, LD3 7DG, U.K.; phone +44 1874 749092). 

Trekkers start their day by picking out one of the trained Jacob sheep as a companion, each outfitted with its own harness, and then hike up Black Mountain for views of Pen y Fan.

“HIKE SANTORINI”

5 days, 4 nights on Cyclades island in south Aegean Sea, GREECE. May 27-31 and Oct. 1-5, 2017. Group limit, 8. Highlights: Hike from Fira to Oia/in port of Ammoudi, Cyclades cooking class, wine tasting/Museum of Prehistoric Thera/boat ride to center of caldera for swimming/on island of Thirasia, hike up steep stairs to villages. €2,400 (near $2,544) ppdo. Single supp., €640 ($678). Aegean Adventures (New York, NY; 800/867-1753, www.aegeanadventures.com).

Active Years Travel Choices

Wendy Bach of Minneapolis, Minnesota, wrote (April ’16, pg. 2), “My husband and I are now 63 and in good health, and we want to chart out the active ‘this is the time to do it’ type of trips. We love hiking and biking and have taken bike tours. We haven’t done much of the big-group tours; we tend to plan our own itineraries and make our own arrangements. 

Nakasendo Way with Walk Japan

During our first visit to Japan, in June 2016, my wife, Fyllis, and I marveled at the countless temples, shrines and other historic structures in Kyoto that have embellished the city since it was the country’s capital from the eighth to mid-19th centuries. And in Tokyo, we delighted in discovering gems from the height of its Edo period (15th to 19th centuries) hidden beneath the veneer of a bustling ultramodern city.

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