Liechtenstein
Liechtenstein Trail
Seventy-five kilometres that cross an entire sovereign nation — border to border through all eleven municipalities.
The Liechtenstein Trail covers seventy-five kilometres from the southern border to the northern border, crossing every one of the country's eleven municipalities. It is, quite literally, a walk across an entire nation. The route takes two to three days, climbing from Rhine valley vineyards to alpine ridges and back.
Marked with distinctive red signs, the trail was inaugurated in 2019 to celebrate 300 years of the Principality of Liechtenstein. It connects the country's full range of landscapes: the flat Rhine valley lowlands, the vineyard terraces above Vaduz, the steep climb to Triesenberg, the alpine pastures of Gaflei and Steg, and the gentler hills of the Unterland. Each municipality along the route has its own character, its own Gasthaus, and its own local speciality. The trail is waymarked and well-maintained, with accommodation options in every major village. It can be walked in stages or as a continuous multi-day hike, and it remains one of the few long-distance trails where you cross an entire sovereign state on foot.
Solo
Walking an entire country alone is a quiet, profound experience. Each day ends in a different village, and the solitude of the trail between them is the point.
Couple
A two-to-three-day walk across a country together — pacing by Gasthaus lunch stops, sharing the absurdity of crossing a nation on foot.
Friends
A group hike across a sovereign state makes a story worth retelling. The trail's village stops ensure the social element never drops away.
- The 75-kilometre route passes through all eleven municipalities — you literally walk an entire nation.
- Each village along the trail has its own Gasthaus, so you pace your days by lunch stops rather than kilometres.
- The trail climbs from Rhine valley vineyards to alpine ridges and back — the entire altitude range of the country.
- Trail markers double as a cultural tour: churches, castles, Roman ruins, and Walser farmsteads mark every stage.
Each village along the trail has its own Gasthaus — pace your stages by lunch stops, not kilometres.
The route passes vineyard terraces above Vaduz where you can taste the Prince's own Pinot Noir at source.
Pedra de Lume
Cape Verde
Float in a salt lake inside an extinct volcano, crater walls rising on every side.
Vale do Paúl
Cape Verde
Sugarcane terraces spill down a volcanic crater into the greenest valley in the archipelago.
Monastery of St. Anthony
Egypt
Earth's oldest inhabited monastery, wedged into a Red Sea mountain canyon since the fourth century.
Hoang Su Phi
Vietnam
Rice terraces so vertiginous they look like topographical maps carved directly into the sky.
Gafadura
Liechtenstein
Cheese made by hand in a stone hut older than the principality, at the cloud line.
Fürstensteig
Liechtenstein
Steel cables on exposed ridgeline, a sheer drop into Austria one side, Switzerland the other.
Alte Rheinbrücke
Liechtenstein
Forty paces across a covered wooden bridge — Liechtenstein one end, Switzerland the other, Rhine below.
Vaduz
Liechtenstein
A capital so small you can walk its length in fifteen minutes, a castle watching overhead.