HOW TO WALK The Overland Track

Tasmanis is a beautiful island off the coast of Australia. Cicerone’s guidebook author Warwick Sprawson explains why its flagship trail is worth a trip down under.

According to a recent Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service survey, 55% of hikers rated the Overland Track as “one of the best things I have ever done in my life”. Another 39% rated it as “one of the best things I have done in the past 12 months”, while, encouragingly, only 0.4% opted for “glad it’s over and I never want to go bushwalking again”. It’s little wonder ‘the Overland’ garners such high praise. Nearly 80km of glacier-carved valleys, vast buttongrass moorlands, mossy rainforests, rugged peaks, thundering waterfalls, alpine meadows and peaceful lakes - the track teeming with plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth. It’s a different Australia to the one often portrayed; a landscape still raw from the last Ice Age, its history revealed in its unique plants,…

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Trail United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2024

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