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Top 10 Riding Spots in Romania
From Transylvania to the Danube delta — ten of Romania's most rewarding riding destinations.
Top 10 Riding Spots in Japan
Ride the rim of an active caldera, meet native ponies on the edge of extinction, and visit the 1964 Olympic eventing ground — Japan's quiet horse country, mapped.
Top 10 Riding Spots in Kenya
Ride through the wildebeest migration itself, past hippos at Naivasha and flamingos at Lake Magadi — and learn why outfitters insist you're confident at a gallop.
Top 10 Riding Spots in Jordan
Approach Petra on horseback by the Nabataeans' own back routes, camp Bedouin-style in Wadi Rum, and meet the desert-bred Arabians behind the entire modern breed.
Read more →Top 10 Riding Spots in Poland
Pack-ride Hucul ponies through bear and wolf country, hack Europe's largest primeval forest, and watch world-class Arabians auctioned at a stud founded in 1817.
Read more →Top 10 Riding Spots in the Netherlands
The horses atop world dressage are bred on these flat polders, nearly every town has its own manège, and the North Sea beaches were made for a canter.
Read more →Top 10 Riding Spots in Italy
Ride with Tuscany's working butteri, link Dolomite rifugi on horseback, or cross Abruzzo's wolf-and-bear country — Italy's riding map goes far beyond the vineyards.
Read more →Top 10 Riding Spots in the American West
Pack trips into the Thorofare, ranches run by the same families for generations, and saguaro desert you can ride all winter — where the working West still takes guests.
Read more →Top 10 Riding Spots in Andalusia
Ride PREs bred here since the Carthusian monks, canter Europe's only semi-desert at Cabo de Gata, and time your trip for the Feria del Caballo — Andalusia in the saddle.
Read more →Top 10 Riding Spots in the Camargue
A wild beach you can only reach by horse or 4WD, salt pans glowing pink in summer, and gardians who still carry the trident — riding France's working delta.
Read more →Top 10 Riding Spots in Kyrgyzstan
Sleep in herders' yurts at 3,000 metres, drink fermented mare's milk, ride with eagle hunters — and often book the whole trek as a walk-in once you arrive.
Read more →Top 10 Riding Spots in Morocco
Gallop a Barb — an ancestor of the Thoroughbred — down Essaouira's sands, and catch a fantasia: a synchronised cavalry charge ending in simultaneous musket fire.
Read more →Top 10 Riding Spots in Hungary
On the Hortobágy, working csikós still drive five horses standing up and can lie a mount down on command. Hungary's riding culture isn't folklore — here's where to find it.
Read more →Top 10 Riding Spots in Australia
Helicopter-assisted musters on stations the size of small countries, croc-aware routes in the Top End, and a beach canter where rainforest meets the reef.
Read more →The Best Riding Spots for Beginners
New to horses? The right first stable teaches confidence on a calm horse — not survival on the wrong one.
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