Walking tours, don’t you know, may be the best way to see the world. The pace is slow, the better to take in all the new sights and sounds around you. You can savor the landscape, the architecture, ...

My wife, Sigrid, and I are ardent road trippers. But over the years, we’ve often talked about seeing the world more slowly, ditching highways for cross-country footpaths such as the Transcaucasian ...

After her first self-guided walking trip in 2011, Christine Harrold, 59, decided she was done taking do-nothing beach vacations. On the eight-day meander through Scotland with her teenage son, the now ...

Walking is good for you, so it’s not surprising that there are travel companies that have made it the centerpiece of their tours. But what exactly is a walking vacation? Here are five myths taken down ...

When we travel, we do so usually by airplane, train or car. But the more ancient way of traveling by foot reveals terrain unseen by the speedy ones—a world of friendship, surprise and deepening awe.