Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Florli, Norway - June 12, 2018: Old Florli Hydroelectric Power Station at Lysefjord, built in 1918. ..
. [+] It has two water penstocks with a cabled railway and a wooden stairway with 4,444 steps. getty Do you like to skip the gondolas and tramways when you’re traveling and truly earn your views by huffing it up a mountain side or set of stairs? A new report from British health club chain PureGym ranks the most physically demanding tourist landmarks around the world.
Absent from the list are some of the biggest outdoor feats, like climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro or the Classic Inca Trail that delivers sightseers to Machu Picchu in Peru. Instead, this list concentrates more on what could be considered scenic stair steppers, and it includes a collection of staircases and steps around the world that route tourists to shrines, monasteries, ruins and more cultural landmarks.
For its report, the analysts took into account the number of steps required to experience the landmark in all of its glory, the elevation change during the ascent, and the average temps in the location. These three factors combined were used to assign a final “exertion” score to the landmarks that require some hard work to experience the cultural attraction. "Castle of the Moors, also known as Castelo dos Mouros, in Sintra, Portugal with a flag bearing the .
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Other images of Sintra:" getty At the top of the list are the Flørli Stairs .
