Trekking & Hiking
Hiking: To walk or march a great distance, esp. through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
Trekking: To travel or migrate, esp. slowly or with difficulty. A journey or trip, esp. one involving difficulty or hardship.
Requirements: To perform this activity need to have good health and good humour, endurance for long walks, comfortable shoes, a good backpak and get ready for a sunny day or a day of rain. We specializes in hiking.
Places: Lachuá Lagoon National Park, Semuc Champey, Peña del Ángel, Las Victorias National Park, Biotope of Quetzal
About this activity: Discover the wonders of Guatemala on foot. Hike on ancient Maya trading routes, over mountain passes, across impressive ravines and through tiny colorful villages.
Hike along spectacular ridges where often nine volcanoes can be seen at once, experience the warmth and friendliness of the people without buses or highways creating barriers. Get in touch with the true culture and beauty of Guatemala.
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Rafting in the Cahabón River with Saquijá communitarian guide
What is Trekking and Hiking?
Trekking often refers to multi-day hiking trips through rural, often rugged territory. Many people who are trekkers engage in longer trips through entire regions of the world, using trekking as a way of getting from place to place. It can be incorporated with a number of other outdoor sports, such as rock climbing or backpacking.
Trekking is different from other sorts of travel for a few different reasons. It tends to be less-structured than other sort of travel, as weather conditions and topography help influence travel plans more than plane flights or hotel availability. As travelers move on foot through often-rural areas, trekking gives travelers an up-close view of incredible scenery. Many trekkers travel through isolated areas, giving them an experience much different than those who travel in organized groups to more-popular destinations. It often allows them to interact with nature, doing anything from climbing a rock wall to navigating across a mountain or entire mountain range.
Trekking can be done anywhere in the world. Several areas are particularly popular with travelers, including the mountainous regions such as the Himalayas in Asia and the Andes in South America. However, treks have been organized in other less-touristed areas regions on almost every continent. Trekking can result in a trip as long or short as participants decide, from trips of a week or more to expeditions that last more than a year.
Trekking can be as athletic and adventurous as participants decide. The less-structured nature of trekking and a world of destinations help attract a wide variety of participants to the activity.
With hiking you set out to see nature for fun but when you go trekking you are setting out to reach a destination.
See the Wikipedia for more about Hiking
