The World's 100 Best Walks

Here is our (currently preliminary) list of the world’s Top 100 walks, created as part of William Mackesy’s research for his planned book on the World’s Best Walks. See our Walks Assessment System.

The Top 100 is a distillation: some walks on our All Walks list have been combined for creating a definitive Top 100 that avoids inappropriate duplication. (See the footnote below for further explanation.)

See below for some "near misses" from the Top 100.

The rating of walks marked * is currently provisional.

The Top 100

Ranking	Walk Name	Country	Region	Beauty	Natural Interest	Human Interest	Charisma	Negative Points	Total

1	Mount Kailash Kora	China	Tibet	35	16	18	38	(7)	100
2=	Inca Trails *	Peru	Cuzco/Inca Heartlands Area	34	15	17	35	(3)	98
2=	Mustang	Nepal		32.5	17	16.5	34	(2)	98
4=	Petra Area	Jordan	Petra	32	16	19	36	(7)	96
4=	The Dolomites	Italy	Dolomites	37	17	8	36	(2)	96
6=	Cappadocia	Turkey	Cappadocia	31	18	16	33	(3)	95
6=	Torajaland	Indonesia	Sulawesi	31	14	17	33	(0)	95
8=	Drakensberg Escarpment	South Africa	Drakensberg	35	17	6	36	(0)	94
8=	Source of the Ganges and Above	India	NW: Uttaranchal/Kumaon	36	17	12	34	(5)	94
10	Q'adisha Valley *	Lebanon		31	14.5	16	34	(2)	93.5
11=	Annapurna Region *	Nepal	Annapurna Region	36	17	10	37	(7)	93
11=	Grand Canyon	USA	Southwest:Grand Canyon	34	20	2	38	(1)	93
11=	South East Asian Hill Tribe Walks	Cambodia/Laos/Myanmar/Thailand/Vietnam		30	15	16	32	(0)	93
11=	Torres del Paine / Fitz Roy Massif *	Chile/Argentina		37	18	2	36	(0)	93
11=	Wollo Highlands	Ethiopia		31	15	15	32	(0)	93
16=	Accursed Mountains (Albanian Alps) *	Albania		33	15	12	32	(0)	92
16=	Great Wall	China		31	13	18	34	(4)	92
16=	Himalayan Far North *	Myanmar		32	16	12	32	(0)	92
16=	Hunza Area	Pakistan	Hunza	32	16	14	32	(2)	92
16=	Mount Athos	Greece		31	14	15	32	(0)	92
16=	Mt Meru	Tanzania		35	20	3	36	(2)	92
16=	Piatra Craiulai National Park *	Romania	Carpathian Mountains	32	16	14	30	(0)	92
23=	Chandra Tal to Baralacha La *	India	NW:Himachal Pradesh	33	16	6	32	(-4)	91
23=	Gavarnie-Ordesa Circuit	France/Spain	Pyrenees	34	17	5	35	(0)	91
23=	Hadrian's Wall Path	UK	England	31	14	17	34	(5)	91
23=	Jebel Toubkal Area	Morocco		33	16	10	32	(0)	91
23=	Kinnaur Kailash *	India	NW:Himachal Pradesh	34	16	12	32	(3)	91
23=	Lofoten Islands	Norway		35	16	7	33	(0)	91
23=	Manaslu Circuit *	Nepal		36	16	10	35	(6)	91
23=	Mani Mahesh Kailash *	India	NW:Himachal Pradesh	33	16	10	32	(0)	91
23=	Picos de Europa	Spain	Picos de Europa	34	17	6	34	(0)	91
23=	Tibet's Monastery Koras	China	Tibet	30	15	18	32	(4)	91
33=	Huangshan	China		36	17	12.5	35	(10)	90.5
33=	The Amalfi Coast *	Italy	Amalfi Coast	32	14.5	15	32	(3)	90.5
35=	Copper Canyon *	Mexico		33	18	5	34	(0)	90
35=	Corsica (GR20 and others) *	France	Corsica	33	17	8	32	(0)	90
35=	Cotahuasi and Colca Canyons *	Peru		34	17	8	34	(3)	90
35=	Gran Paradiso *	Italy	Alps: Gran Paradiso	35	17	4	34	(0)	90
35=	Illampu Circuit *	Bolivia		36	17	3	34	(0)	90
35=	Jomolhari trek	Bhutan		36	17	8	34	(5)	90
35=	Kangchenjunga / Singalila *	India	Sikkim and nearby	37	17	6	35	(5)	90
35=	Kuari Pass (Curzon Trail) *	India	NW: Uttaranchal/Garwhal	35	16	8	34	(3)	90
35=	Markha Valley *	India	Ladakh	34	15	10	34	(3)	90
35=	Mont Blanc Area	France	Alps	36	16	6	35	(3)	90
35=	Nanda Devi Area *	India		35	16	8	34	(3)	90
35=	Pindos/Vikos Circuit	Greece		32.5	16	8.5	33	(0)	90
35=	Royal Trek *	Nepal	Annapurna Region	32	14	12	32	(0)	90
48=	Alpine Pass Route *	Switzerland		36	16.5	4	34	(1)	89.5
48=	Cockpit Country *	Jamaica		30	16.5	12	31	(0)	89.5
48=	Matterhorn Circuit *	Switzerland		34	15	7.5	35	(2)	89.5
51=	Blyde River Canyon *	South Africa		32	18	5	34	(0)	89
51=	Cadair Idris	UK	Wales, Snowdonia	31	15	12	31	(0)	89
51=	Cairngorms	UK	Scotland, Cairngorms	33	16	6	34	(0)	89
51=	Camino de Santiago *	Spain		31	15	16	31	(4)	89
51=	Cinque Terre *	Italy		32	14	12	32	(1)	89
51=	Dogon Country *	Mali		31	14	14	30	(0)	89
51=	Eiger Trail *	Switzerland		35	16	8	32	(2)	89
51=	French Pyrenees	France	Pyrenees	36	16	4	33	(0)	89
51=	Monte Rosa Circuit *	Switzerland/Italy	Alps	36	16	6	32	(1)	89
51=	Mount Rinjani *	Indonesia	Lombok	36	19	2	34	(2)	89
51=	Shikoku Pilgrimage *	Japan		30	14	17	30	(2)	89
51=	Simien Mountains *	Ethiopia		34	16	8	33	(2)	89
51=	Spanish Pyrenees	Spain	Pyrenees	36	16	4	33	(0)	89
51=	The Arsenale to the Salute, Venice	Italy		34	5	20	36	(6)	89
51=	Tongariro Alpine Crossing	New Zealand	North Island	34	19	2	36	(2)	89
51=	Upper Humla Valley	Nepal		33	15	12	31	(2)	89
67=	Altai Mountains	Mongolia		33	14.5	8	33	(0)	88.5
67=	Fiji Mountain Walk *	Fiji		31.5	15	10	32	(0)	88.5
67=	Julian Alps *	Slovenia		33	15.5	8	32	(0)	88.5
67=	Stubai Hohenweg *	Austria		35	15.5	4	34	(0)	88.5
67=	Uluru (Ayers Rock)	Australia		32	16.5	14	34	(8)	88.5
67=	Walkers Haute Route (Chamonix to Zermatt) *	France/Switzerland		35	16.5	5	34	(2)	88.5
73=	Angkor	Cambodia		31	11	20	36	(10)	88
73=	Around Yangshuo, Guilin	China		31	17	12	33	(5)	88
73=	Byron's Journey *	Albania		31	15	10	32	(0)	88
73=	Canyonlands National Park *	USA	SW: Canyonlands NP	35	17	0	36	(0)	88
73=	Easter Island *	Chile		30	13	12	33	(0