Jan Flokstra's Travel and Hiking page.

• 2009
  • In the summer I guided the HT trek to Sermalik Fjord on the east coast of Greenland. Two nice fotoseries of this trip have been made by by Kitty and Duco.
  • In spring I did the kora around Mount Kailash the holy mountain in West Tibet. We aproached the mountain from the Humla district in Nepal trekking along the Karnali river. We returned through the very remote Limi vally in Nepal. On the flanks of Mt. Kailash we spotted a group of snowleopards. My pictures of these very rare animals can be found here .
• 2008
  • In july guided this years HT trip to Spitsbergen where it it was very cold this year so the North Pole will probably not melt this(!) year.
  • In june did another mountaineering course in the Stubai Alps in Austria at the Sulzenau Hutte.
  • In may Marieke and I walked a new section of our foot trip to Rome. We walked 330 km from Montabaur in the Westerwald to Pforzheim in the 'Schwarzwald' over the E1, Rheinhohenweg, E8 Pfalzer Wald variant and back to the E1 again.
• 2007
  • The last 2 weeks of the year Marieke and I have been walking on the isles of La Palma and La Gomera.
  • In october visited Nepal for the spectacular trek around the Dhaulagiri massif.
  • In august I guided a trek across the famous Brooks Range in Arctic Alaska . We walked in 16 days from Chandalar Lake to Gailbraith Lake in the remote area east of the Dalton Highway.
  • In june I did the HT climbing course in the Oetztaler Alps in Austria.
  • In may Marieke and I walked a new stage of our foot trip to Rome. This time we walked 220 km from Marsberg to Montabaur on the E1 and the Rothaarsteig.
• 2006
  • In november with HT to Jordan . Lots of canyon hiking (Wadi Ibn Hammad, Wadi Numeira, Wadi ...). We walked in 5 days from Dana to Petra and did a 2 day trek in Wadi Rum .
  • In august I guided a backpacking trip to the very remote Kamchatka peninsula for HT . This area, called "Russia's ring of fire", is located in the extreme east of Russia and is famous for it's vulcanos and its wildlife. A nice photo series of this trip made by Daan Stegeman can be found here .
• 2005
  • Around Christmas and New Year I went with a group to Mauritanie for a 300km walk through the Sahara from Terjit to Tijika over the incredibly beautiful and remote Adrar and Tagant plateaus .
  • In october I did an experimental trip to the Nanda Devi massif in Nortern India. We walked from Mundoli to Roop Kund and after that over Kuari Pass to Josimath. Secondly we did a lower than planned trek because of the early winter on which we visited the Rudrenath and Tugnath temples.
  • In june I guided a trip for HT Wandelreizen to Iceland. This was the very beautifull Hekla & Landmannalaugar trek; 10 days of very wild walking between lava, steam-vents, ice-caps, hot baths and ice-cold rivers.
  • In the spring we went Munro bagging in Nortern Scotland where I added another 35 to my collection. My total now is 53. We visited Glen Lyon, Torridon and the south side of the Cairngorms.
• 2004
  • Late October 2 weeks of good weather in Southern Spain. Walked in the Alpujarras, climbed Mulhacen and did a lot of walking in the beautiful and sunny Cabo da Gata park near Almeria.
  • In the summer I did the K2 and Gondogoro-La trek in the beautiful Karakoram mountains of Pakistan.
  • In May to 3 weeks in the Sierra de Cadi in Nortern Spain. Lots of snow in the higher parts. Climbed the Pedraforca and 2 other mountains near Saldes.
• 2003
  • The last 2 weeks of october I've been walking the West Highland Way in Scotland and have climbed my first 18 Munros along the way. A trip report can be found HERE(dutch).
  • The final segment of the GR5! from Modane to Nice. Finished my longest walk to date. I walked a total of 2400 kilometer in 9 years on this route.
  • Motorcycle trip in the spring. In two weeks via the Vogezen to the Southern Provence and back.
• 2002
  • The month of April we hiked on the Colorado plateau in the USA. Main treks were Coyote Gulch(Escalante), Chesler Park(Canyonlands NP), Neon/Escalante/Harris Canyon loop(Escalante) and finally the famous Paria Canyon trek.
• 2001
  • In may 2 weeks through Arizona and the Californian Sierra's. A diary and photo serie can be found HERE.
  • In juli the annual GR5 stage. This year from La Chapelle d'Abondance to Modane. A photo serie of the trip can be found HERE.
  • Start of september we went hiking in the Catalan Pyrenees. We did 4 multiday treks. The areas we hiked in were the Aguies Tortes, Posets and Maladeta and the beautifull Ordesa - Gavarnie area.
• 2000
  • I had lots of plans for 2000 but 13'th of May I was victim of the Enschede fireworks disaster. We live some 300 meter from the explosion centre and our house was hit very bad. Some pictures of the damage to my house, car and street can be found here. We lived in Borne for a half year.
  • Luckily we could find some time for vacation so we made a 3 week long motortrip to Corsica.
  • GR5, traject Pontarlier - La Chapelle d'Abondance (Alps).
• 1999
  • GR5 traject Barr - Pontarlier (Jura).
  • A trek of 10 days in the French and Spanish Pyrenees around Gavarnie spending most of the time in the beautiful Ordesa National park. A PDF format trip-report can be found here
• 1998
  • GR5, Mondorf les Bains - Barr (Alsace)
  • Patagonia trip, in december and januari I went to Southern Chili and Argentinia with a group of the NKBV, the dutch mountaineering association. We hiked the "Lago Dientes circuit" on Isla Navarino, the "Circuit" in the Torres del Paine NP and a trek along the edge of Fitzroy and Cerro Torre in the Los Glaciaros NP in Argentina. During this trip I wrote a diary (dutch, 150K). This site also hosts the homepage for this trip(in dutch with pictures).
• 1997
  • GR5, Maastricht - Spa.
  • GR5, Spa - Mondorf les Bains(Luxemburg).
  • Jerez the la Frontera, to the last Formula I race of 1997. Approx. 6000 km on an off-the-road motorcycle.
• 1996
  • Israel.
  • Pieterpad, Holten - Maastricht.
  • Nepal-Tibet trip, this document describes my trip to Nepal and Tibet in 1996. The first 4 weeks I trekked from Jiri to Everest Base Camp and crossed over Cho La to Gokyo valley. The last 2 weeks I made a trip over the Friendship Highway to Lhasa. A foto-archive of this trip can be found here. A shorter description of this trip can be found at the Anders Reizen site.
• 1995
  • A short trip to the Eastern Sierra's along the 395 in Eastern California. Lake Tahoe, Mono Lake and a short walk at the foot of Mt.Whitney.
  • Alaska, We travelled 6 weeks in this beautiful part of the world. From Seattle we went to Prince Rupert. There we took the boat through the "Inside Passage" to Juneau, Sitka, Haines and finally Skagway. From there we travelled overland to Valdez from where we took the boat to Kodiak. After that we went to Homer, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Denali etc .... Marieke is preparing a travelogue of this trip at the moment.
  • Pieterpad, Pieterburen - Holten.


(In Patagonia 1998, Cerro Torre in the background)

Interesting Travel and Hiking links.

• HT Wandelreizen, a Dutch company for adventurous treks .
• NKBV, the dutch mountaineering association.
• The very nice dutch oudoor website for Scotland on www.buitensport-schotland.nl .
• The Trail database at hejoly.demon.nl, a site full of hiking links.
• The NKBV 'Zwerftochten' program, day hikes and weekend hikes organized by the NKBV.
• Travels with Samantha, one of the first real travelogues on the internet. Travelogue describes a trip trough the West of North America.
• Anders Reizen, a site with a collection of travel stories.
• GORP, the Great Outdoor Recreation Pages. Very usefull if you go to the US.
• SNP, the biggest Dutch nature travel organization.
• The Rec.Travel Library., lots of travel info and travelogues.
• Lonely Planet, travel guides.
• Rough Guides, travel guides. Their Nepal update page is very informative.
• Moon, travel guides.
• Adventurous Travel Bookstore, bookstore specialized in travel books.
• Amazon, the biggest Internet bookstore. Very handy for hard-to-get books.

Several homepages and personal travel pages.

• Fred Triep's hiking page, contains lots of walking descriptions of the author. Lots of other good walking info too.