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Welcome to All Great Walks !
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Written by Mark
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I was born 1974 in Magdeburg, East Germany.
My childhood was spend in a little village called Eichenbarleben in Saxony-Anhalt.
When I was 16 years I moved to Magdeburg and went to High School there.
I spend my 17th year in Sedro Woolley near Seattle, USA as an exchange student.
Then I went to the Humbolt University in Berlin and studied Philosophy and Computer Science.
In 1999 I spend about one year backpacking in South East Asia.
Most of the time was spend in Indonesia, where I studied the language Bahasa Indonesia.
During this time I also went to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Laos.
After I came back to Germany I started my first walking attempts.
That was about 7 years ago. Since then I have done quiet a variety of walks in different countries. |
Long-Distance Trails have always been the real thing for me. In 2005 I left Germany and went to Australia on a working holiday visa.
During my working holiday in Australia and New Zealand I had a chance to do a lot of walking. So I'll always remember it as a walking holiday. But this included much driving from one National Park to the next one.
My longest walk at once was the Great North Walk form Sydney to Newcastle, New South Wales. It took me about 16 days.
Here is a - still incomplete - list of walks I've done so far:
Long Distance and Overnight:
Europe:
- Baerenpfad ( Karhunpolku ), 133km, East Finland
- Lemmenjoki National Park, 80km, Northern Lapland, Finland
- 5 days canoeing on lake Inari, Northern Lapland, Finland
- around Lake Mueritz, 100km, Northern Germany
- E11, European Long Distance Walk, 80km, 5 days from German/Polish border into Poland
- Pyrenees, 3 day circuit near St. Paul de Fenouillet, Southern France
- Coast to Coast Walk, 14 days, England
Australia:
- Great North Walk, 220km, Sydney to Newcastle, NSW
- Six Foot Track, 3 days, Blue Mountains, NSW
- Blue Gum Forest, 2 days, Blue Mountains, NSW
- Southcoast Track and Port Davey Track, 150km, Tasmania
- Jatbula Trail, 4 days, Northern Territory
- Ormiston Gorge, 3 days, Northern Territory
- Wilson Promontory, 2 days, Victoria
- Lammington Nationalpark, 2 days, Queensland
New Zealand:
- Lake Waikaremoana Walk, 4 days, Te Urewera NP, North Island
- Whakatane - Waikare River Walk, 4 days, Te Urewera NP, North Island
- Mt. Taranaki High Level Circuit, 5 days, Mt Egmont NP, North Island
- Mt Holdsworth Circuit, 2 days, Tararua Forest Park, North Island
- Hollyford Track, 5 days, Fiordland NP, South Island
- Wangapeka Track, 5 days, Kahurangi NP, South Island
- Manapouri Circuit, 3 days, Fiordland NP, South Island
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