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AUSTRALIA is blessed with a diversity of landscapes to keep even the most prolific of walkers busy for a lifetime. For bushwalkers looking for multi-day trips, up to a week, here are some of the best:

1 Kanangra to Katoomba, NSW

Not to be confused with its near neighbour, the comparatively easy Six Foot Track (of a similar distance), this 45km “route” (as opposed to track), is for experienced navigators and bushwalkers only. Traditionally walked south to north, this adventure will stretch your map-reading abilities, along with your quads and knees as you ascend and descend over 1350m through the rugged Kanangra-Boyd Wilderness to cross the Coxs River into the Blue Mountains National Park. The soaring orange face of Kanangra Walls at the start, puts you a long way from anywhere in this remote part of the southern Blue Mountains. Its

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