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Annapurna Sunrise Trek / Ghorepani - Poon Hill & Hot Spring - Dhampus Trekking -14 Days The Annapurna Sunrise Trek is also called Ghorepani Trek comparatively easy walk winding through villages and rhododendron forests beneath the majestic Himalayan scenery.

Annapurna Circuit Trekking is one of the most popular trekking in the world, known as Round Annapurna Trek or Thorong- La Pass Trek, which was opened 1997. Round Annapurna Trekking climbs from lowland surrounded by lush fields and forests up through the mountains into the desert-dry trans-Himalayan region that lies on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and then back again forest with rhododendron, magnolia, juniper etc.

Grandfather Mountain, near Linville, NC, officially became North Carolina's newest state park yesterday. The park is best known for its mile-high swinging bridge, the highest in America, built in 1952 by Hugh Morton.

Nearly the entire length of the four-mile (one-way) hike to the summit of Mt. Rogers passes through open country, offering sweeping views of the surrounding wilderness as far as the eye can see. With the rocky outcroppings and the open views, it seems more like hiking in some places out west rather than in the Appalachian Mountains.

Grassy Ridge on Roan Mountain is the longest stretch of grassy bald in the Appalachian Mountains, and is an easy hiking destination starting out of Carvers Gap.