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17th May 2023 -   We are open for enquiries for 2023 and 2024 dates on all routes

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Welcome - You made it!

The largest walking site for the SW & Wales

Run BY walkers...FOR walkers

300 pages of Interactive Maps, route profiles, FAQ's, videos & trail reviews

Find the answers to ALL your walking queries from the region's most comprehensive walking website

 

 

Your Walk... Your Way

We don't do "STANDARD" walking holidays

Benefit from individual advice and tailor made itineraries to create the walk YOU want

Work with walking advisors who KNOW the trails & can plan the right route, accommodation & support for you - from the moment you enquire until the end of your adventure

South West & Wales

We are the regions premier Walking Experts

  • Cornwall & SW based Staff
  • Largest choice of routes
  • Choose your accommodation
  • Design your own itinerary
  • Group rates and discounts
  • Dogs & singles welcome
  • Specialists for overseas walkers
  • Best guidebooks, maps & itineraries

We received a Digital Transformation grant to improve our processes by enhancing our database system and integrating it with our soon to be launched new website. We also received equipment to be able to create GPX files. This grant is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund

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Review of The Mendip Way in Somerset Life Magazine

 

"Simone Stanbrook-Byrne revels in her surroundings as a newly re-launched route takes her through some of the most dramatic and varied terrain in the country."

Simone Stanbrook-Byrne's excellent review of the Mendip way is available as a downloadable PDF by clicking here or you can read it online by visiting Somerset Life's website and reading the magazine article by clicking here.

 


 

Join us on the Mendip Way

The Mendip Way offers 50 miles of top quality walking through an area of outstanding natural beauty along the Mendip Plateau in beautiful Somerset, through an ancient landscape of hidden caverns and gorges. Visit places replete with myths and legends including King Arthur's Vale of Avalon, the cathedral city of Wells and the iconic Glastonbury Tor. Read more about The Mendip Way.         Contact us for more information and to request a quote.

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Walking Information Booket

We are providing all our walkers with copies of this excellent guide to help answer questions about our walking holidays. Those booking onto them receive booklets with their maps and guidebooks but if you have general questions about how our holidays work day to day its work looking at it online for more info. There is lots of useful information if you have not walked in the UK or not been on a walking holiday before.

Click here or click on the image to view The Walkers Information Booklet now

We also have a section of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) - Click here and of course you are welcome to just contact us directly with any specific questions if you can't find the answers you need.

To subscribe to future Newsletters with updates on new walks and offers (2 or 3 times a year) to to the very bottom right of this page to find the sign up box

 

Latest walk reviews & route feedback

Click Here to Submit your own Review

Route: Port Isaac Padstow Saints way Name: Barry Teperman Walked on: 12th May 2023

Planning and booking for your walk with Encounter Walking Holidays

Encounter Walking Holidays Website

Your Walking Routes

Walking notes, maps, guidebooks and itinerary

"Great maps and notes, though GPS is best "

Luggage transfers

Accommodation

"Very comfortable and good breakfasts"

Overall experience

"Loved the walk, got lost but isn't that part of the fun. GPS always correctrd us."

Would you choose Encounter Walking Holidays for future holidays? Yes

Would you recommend Encounter Walking Holidays to others? Yes

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Route: The Saints Way Name: Susan Walked on: 15th May 2023

Planning and booking for your walk with Encounter Walking Holidays

"Excellent. Very helpful with a couple of ‘tweaks’ that we needed. "

Encounter Walking Holidays Website

Your Walking Routes

"Official way markers aren’t great but maps and Encounter’s tips and advice more than make up."

Walking notes, maps, guidebooks and itinerary

Luggage transfers

Accommodation

Overall experience

Would you choose Encounter Walking Holidays for future holidays? Yes

Would you recommend Encounter Walking Holidays to others? Yes

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1. Planning and booking for your walk with Encounter Walking Holidays


2. Encounter Walking Holidays Website


3. Your Walking Routes


4. Walking notes, maps, guidebooks and itinerary


5. Luggage transfers


6. Accommodation


7. Overall experience


8. Would you choose Encounter Walking Holidays for future holidays?    Yes No

9. Would you recommend Encounter Walking Holidays to others?    Yes No

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