This video shows nothing new the world already knows about. It makes more sense to show the unknown and surprising sights than the stereotypes (that only reflect part of the whole).

As a Ukrainian that’s lived in 6 states of the US, you lost me when at 11:22 you used a map of Europe showing Ukraine WITHOUT Crimea 😒.

Great video. But, it does focuses on more western/southern Europe. There are some great hiking spots in the Balkans where u have proper market trails in more touristy areas or forgotten paths that are still accessible (ex. Biogradska Gora). In recent yeats, Prokletjie and Valbona are becoming more popular due over ocupations of other hiking area in Europe.

Have you heard about the Carpartians and Romania. Amazing landscapes and wildlife. Also on hills trails like via Transilvanica where you can meet rabbites, deers. Also Macin mountains which are the oldest mountains in Europe where you can see a lot of turtles.

Fancy editing but missing alot of info: misleading info

Not mentioning Tatra mountains is really a big mistakes . The Tatra mountains are big with really hard trails to easy trails. Hikers from Tatra Mountains are the most respectable in the world. Most trails are not accesed by public transport or even car so you have to leave car sometimes 1 hour walk from where trail starts. Many wild animals like bears deers marmots.

Crap ! Like the USAmerican ignorant way of “doing Europe in 5 days” 🙄

Thanks Greenbelly for these high-quality videos! I just found your channel and am well impressed

I like the alps 🚞🚠🏔️🌄🚵🧗🏼‍♂️⛷️❤️

Thank you for comparisson. Never been to the US or to the Americas. So I only have the experience of Hiking in different european Countries. Mainly Poland and Germany. But there are already difference with Europe if you look closer. Especially when it comes to wild camping rules. Some are very liberal like Scandinavian countries and others are much more strickt like Germany (In Germany you even have to consider the different law within each German state as it is a Federation).

Not to mention Czech Hiking Markers Standard is video like this should be a cardinal sin. I love it and would not change it for anything else.

Europe: less probable to be eaten by a bear 🐻

Europa it’s so much more that that , every year people from all over the world hike in Sweden, Kungsleden trail . Norway , Finland, iceland have most beautiful wild nature you can image.

Just to add that mosques are not historical in Europe.

Apparently for you Europe is only Germany, France, Italy and Austria lol

I live in italy near roma and we have boars and wolves in our forests so the statement that europe does not have wildlife or biodiversity is completely false!!

hiking in the european alps is a dream come true. in addition to the beautiful landscapes, there is also culture: like the traditional alpine huts that are managed. They offer top-quality food, home-made cheese, garden and forest produce and traditional cuisine. For example in South Tyrol (Italy)

I live in europe, Poland i'm lucky, near my home town are (small) Beskidy mountains with excellent trails and shelter tourists huts. I'm sunday traveler, i take group of friends or go alone, for a day, or max few days. You usually dont use tents, travel light. Trails are well organised, safe. You know exacly how long to the nearest peak/place. You can move back by buses, or trains. It is easier to not get lost. I like it that way. I guess american trails are for more experienced hikers, for example who know how to deal with wild animals like mountain lions, snakes, wolves or bears. Being in remote space, hundred km from civilisation sound exotic to me. Here we have few countries in the same radius. I like to travel for hiking to nearby Czech, Slovakia and Germany, they have really nice trail system, one time, i travel by train to Liberec, and so many people come with bikes, that whole train get full quickly and some have to wait for next train, i guess many people like to rest like this.

Hollywood should make a movie about her adventures. Why hasn't it done yet!?

Pretty sure that people were living in america long berofe what you said

Very US-American view on Europe: All is very oversimplified. Yes, in the west of Europe the population is denser and you may visit villages during your hike, but go to the east of Europe and the story is completely different, including wolves and bears. Just visit the Carpathians. Again completely different is Scandinavia. Especially with respect to „camping“ in nature, which is widely allowed there. Further, some geographic details were plainly wrong. You depicted the Black Forest at the wrong spot of Germany…and you forgot the Bayerische Wald, which is the largest natural forest in the middle of Europe, just to name a few.

Why american rhink 25% of russia is not europe?

You forgot about Slovenian Alps.

For lack of a better term, I believe that mountaineering is much stronger than hiking in Europe. You know, walking or climbing on marked trails to reach the peak. For example, in Croatia (not even mentioned in this video), there are a few long distance hiking trails, some shorter trails, but there are marked trails to virtually every peak in the country. And let me tell you, there are many.

If this video is just for Americans it was well done. If it is also for Europeans, the metric system should be used as well.

The U.S. idea of private property is sad, because it grew in a time when if someone wasn't letting you onto their land, you could just go find some other land they didn't own to do what you wanted to do. Now, thanks to Department of the Interior bureaucracy, that is no longer the case.

Walking is often not considered an activity in itself in Europe. My grandparents' local supermarket has regular customers who walk 2 miles to get there. Most, however, use a car, but many are elderly & used to walk years ago back when they were younger.

As a european, I hiked in Kenya. Was a damn weird feeling to know that leopards are all over the place.

Don’t try this in UK. 😂😂😂

I live in the US and there’s plenty of free camping and trails. You just need to know where to go. The popular tourist places yeah it’s probably not as nice of an experience to deal with all that. In the national forests you can camp wherever you want.

And mosques 😢😢😢😢😢 The first mosque ever built in France was after world war 1.

Crazy cheotic video.

I agree with a lot of this. After growing up in Switzerland most of my life and then hiking in the Rockies, I was amazed at the vast wilderness of the American West.

Scandinavia, Iceland, Balkans, Carpathians, Caucasus, there is so much variety in hiking possibilities and cultures in Europe that you didn't even touch on.

I've done several trips to the more sparsly populated of Sweden, and I don't mean Lapland. I don't "hike", just take walks in the nature. As soon as you get away from busy roads, you are guaranteed to within a few minutes find a spot by a lake or on a mountain where you hear nothing but the sounds of nature. And you're almost guaranteed not to see another human being.

2:01 A little bit wrong map. Missed Crimea peninsula as a part of Ukraine. It’s occupied by russia now, but officially it’s a territory of Ukraine

Also, there are Bears and wolfs in Europe too.

Sure it´s different. But if you want to hike in the mountains (wilderness) you will not encounter a castle at every step nor is every hike just going from one hut to another. Sure you have that option. But it´s not the only thing. And if somebody was complaining about missing ice-cream, they never really hiked in Europe properly. It was just a little trip for them. Doesn´t mean all Europeans hike to get ice-cream at the end of day.

I too have noticed that the trail network in the alps is MUCH better than in the Canadian Rockies. The alps have far more marked trails (which allow access to many summits) and they also go into higher difficulties. Normal trails go up to T4 (SAC hiking scale) and then, there are via ferratas, which are basically an extension of marked trails by other means. The Canadian trail network is far thinner and usually tops out at T3. Most summits are not part of the trail network and it is hard to figure out how hard the summit routes actually are. Some are easy to follow paths that aren't much different than harder european on-trail hiking, others are serious scrambles. The lack of good hiking maps is also an issue, I ended up using OSM for the most part, which has a lot of routes, but no clue about difficulty.

What I find interesting is that you present these tourist trap ranges of both places. There are really nice untouched places in the US and Europe. For e.g Alaska and the Carpathians

it's pretty weird that you limited Europe to just parts of old EU

all of southern poland is a hiker's dream, especially in the Beskid Niski and Bieszczady regions. like, you can enter ANY pathway, and just hike for hours, wandering through mountains, dense forests and rivers, also a lot ot these trails have many interesting sights like 2nd world war era cementarys, burned villages or old eastern churches

Another video where Europe is compared to the USA, but only a small part of Europe is actually compared. Europe is not a country, but a continent.

Like many others already have pointed out, the northern nordics is quite different. For example the northern most province of Norway is bigger than the country of Switzerland but with fewer than 80 000 inhabitants. That results in a population density of about 1.5 per square kilometers. Tourism is almost completely centered around outdoors experiences

I moved to Canada from Ukraine in 2011. I was shocked that in some province there is no public lands close to cities. In Quebec it was so hard to get access to rivers and some lakes vere totally private. Often you had to drive hours and pay money just to have a walk in the forest. It was horrible. Some other provinces are better but access to nature is considered to be a privilege and not a right. 😢 Often In Canadian Rockies camping sites are booked on day one and many trails are busier than in Slovakia, Romania or Ukraine.

As a German, I don't need any restaurants on my hikes.

Do you have some great ideas. I’m glad to see that you don’t have all the processed junk that so many other people bring to the trail and very little waste. Good job.

Good video but really busy edited. With sounds effect etc and quick images.

Great comparison! No blaming, no judgement, just helpful information 👍. Stefan from Switzerland with still an emotional connection to the USA after a year as an exchange student at Monterey High School in CA