The beauty of Luxembourg’s cozy countryside landscape is that it offers the perfect destination for hiking, trekking and backpacking, with hundreds of routes throughout the country that connect major cities and destinations.
Also known as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the country is both rich in its soils, strong in its culture, and a fantastic place to discover for yourself.
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Luxembourg has an Impressive Network of Hiking Trails
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg not only has one of the densest networks of footpaths in Europe (5,000 km in a surface area of almost 2,600 km2), but will also captivate you with the largest number of starred restaurants per square kilometre, its high-quality local cuisine and renowned white wines.
The 25 national pathways stretch between 13 and 84 km and cover the entire territory of the Grand Duchy, linking the country’s main tourist centres. They are therefore ideal for hiking in stages over several days and can be combined with one another. Some of them follow the same route as the E2 and E3 long distance European pathways.
4 Great Hiking Options Through Luxembourg
1) Car-Hiking Circuits. A total of 201 “car-hiking” circuits criss-cross the Grand Duchy and have the advantage that they can be completed in a day, starting and ending in the same place and varying in length between 4 and 16 km.
2) The CFL – the Luxembourg Railways also offer 40 “train-hiking” walks that lead from one station to another, forming a total network of 466 km of paths that can be covered from one end to the other without a car.
Guidebooks giving details of all these car- and train-hiking circuits are available for sale.
3) A number of hotels in the Luxembourg Ardennes offer the Luggage-Free Hiking Formula. To make life easier for you and improve the quality of your stay, hotels have selected hiking circuits for you and make arrangements for your luggage to be transferred from one hotel to another.
Bookings can be made for a number of different paths and journeys, depending on the length of your stay. Visit www.ardennes-hotels.lu and www.hotels-ardennes.lu for more information.
4) The Müllerthal Trail or region is known as Luxembourg’s little Switzerland and offers the very best of the delights of walking with its new 100-km-long “Müllerthal Trail.” This regional hiking route meets the quality requirements of the modern hiker and gives you a chance to see all the special features of the region: age-old forests, valleys crossed by streams bubbling through a carpet of moss, strange formations of sandstone rock. Visit www.mullerthal-trail.lu for more.
For general information on hiking in Luxembourg, please visit: www.hiking-in-luxembourg.co.uk and www.tours.lu.