Still, there are few things I'd rather do less than a four-day, 20-mile hike to Machu Picchu, over two rugged 12,000-foot passes.

A four-day hike along the Abraham Path with Walk Palestine (+972 2 274 8590, walkpalestine.com) costs $620, including accommodation, meals, guide and transfers, but excluding flights.

The bridegroom proposed marriage in June 2000 on the third night of a rain-filled four-day hike on the Long Trail, which traverses the length of Vermont.

Tomorrow he was leaving on the four-day hike on the Kepler Track while the Germans would spend the night watching dolphins in Doubtful Sound.

It had seemed roughly a four-day hike with children, but my wife, Sheryl, put her foot down: she would go for three days and no longer.

Two four-day hikes, the Western and Eastern Huts Traverses, can be combined for $725 for nonmembers.

Salkantay would loom over us for half of the four-day, three-night hike of about 40 miles.

A four-day hike explores the hills, farmland and tribal villages outside Pokhara.

Later treks would include a two-day walk along the northern coastline in Abel Tasman National Park and a four-day hike around Mount Aspiring in the southwest.

Stages of the trip may be done as one- to four-day hikes.