Category: Travel planning & travel preparation

When planning a long-distance hike, you always run into the same problems: What's the exact route? How best to divide the daily stages? Where are suitable overnight accommodations? We've therefore developed an interactive map tool that makes planning a multi-day tour much easier! It helps us enormously when planning our own long-distance hikes. Feel free to try out our long-distance hike planning tool for your own routes! The interactive map includes hiking trails and accommodations throughout Europe: GPX or KML files...

Anyone planning individual tours, road trips, or even long-distance hikes knows the problem: it's easy to get confused about the dates. Without scraps of paper, a glance at the calendar, or, if necessary, counting on your fingers, it's very difficult to keep track of all the dates. Anyone booking multiple consecutive overnight stays in different locations and wanting to avoid gaps or overlapping double bookings should therefore proceed carefully with their individual travel planning. As a small aid, we therefore recently created a table...

Anyone planning a hiking route on their own is faced with the problem of having to somehow estimate the duration of the planned hike. The common rule of thumb of "4 kilometers per hour" for pedestrians, however, only applies on flat terrain. But how long does a hike of, say, 8 km take if that distance still includes 600 meters of ascent and descent? The solution: There's actually a DIN standard for this! DIN standard 33466 regulates the labeling of signposts for hiking trails that include...

...a maximum of 10 kg of luggage is ideal! The greatest weight savings when hiking long distances are achieved by staying in guesthouses, bed and breakfasts, or hotels, thus eliminating the need for a tent, stove, sleeping pad, etc. At the same time, however, the question arises whether you really want to show up at the hotel or restaurant in the evening wearing hiking gear... In our experience, the following packing list will satisfy your sporting demands during the day, while also providing you with various restaurant-friendly combinations for the evening. And you'll get by – at least without...

If you want to easily organize your travel luggage, we recommend Packing Cubes: These are small, rectangular zippered bags that allow you to easily organize the contents of your backpack. This saves you a lot of fiddling around. These items are usually made of lightweight nylon and weigh almost nothing. Packing Cubes are available on Amazon, among other places.

Anyone who enjoys traveling should take the time to calculate their personal carbon footprint. You can do this using the following CO2 calculator: klimaktiv.co2-rechner.de. It breaks down CO2 consumption by different areas of life and allows you to simulate how a lifestyle change would affect your own carbon footprint. I found the following result quite insightful: If I were to eat exclusively vegan, regional, seasonal, and no frozen foods for a year, starting now, I would emit approximately 2 tons of CO2 compared to...