Trails & Tours

Trail Guiding, Trail Developments, Events, Travel Consulting

  • Tour Guiding, Trail Gudiding & Travel Consulting
  • Trail Events - Planning & Guiding
  • Trail-related Study Tours
  • Volunteering & Organizing Volunteer Activities

Affiliations

Molnár András József e.v.

Tour & hiking Trail guiding - being a private entrepreneur since 2015, licensed tour guide since 2012.

Tax no.: HU67250271

Living Hikes / Lélektúrák

Guding hikes which facilitate a more profound experience of being on the way, including encounters with nature, culture, opening up to spirituality and self-knlowledge

https://www.livinghikes.eu

Viatorum Trail Experts

A consulting group emerging from the Viator Association

https://viatorum.eu

Viator Association for Hiking & Culture, Hungary

Co-founder, chair & CEO since 2016

Pilgrimage events, trail developments & pilgrimage leaders' courses

https://viatoregyesulet.hu

Budapest Pilgrims' Centre (Zarándok Központ)

Central information centre and community space for pilgrimages in Hungary

(work in progress)

https://pilgerinfo.hu

MTSZ Hungary (member of ERA)

Member of the national federation through club memberships

https://www.mtsz.org

Műanyag SC

Member of the hiking club

https://muanyagsc.hu

World Trails Network

Member since 2018, co-chairing the Trails & Knowledge Task Team

https://www.worldtrailsnetwork.org

Trails or tours I have developed, guided or contributed to their establishment / improvement

Helian NaTour Ltd - CEE Trail Systems Study Tour

A 7-country, 17-day study tour in Central-Eastern Europe, promoted by the WTN and TMI Trail Taiwan

https://helian.hu/en/CEE_Study

Pálos út & AR Trails

Collaborator in establishing permanent spiritual hiking routes in the vicinity of Budapest

www.palosut.hu

supported by AR Trails

www.artrails.app

Pálos70

Founder of this unique hiking and pilgrimage event - annual open trail days in the area of Budapest and the Danube Bend

www.palos70.hu

Gerecse túra - The 'Landscape and its people' project

Discover the Gerecse area in Northern Transdanubia along this unique - sacral & wine-related hiking trail

Trail route planning and assisting in signage design

https://gerecsetura.hu/

Gerecse Natúrpark Visitor Centre, Péliföld-szentkereszt

Consulting in signage and trail network design & planning, trail marking (partnership with Péter Gadácsi)

https://www.pelifoldszentkereszt.hu/

PanATN - WTN Hub for the Americas

Participating in TRAMP expedition, Costa Rica, 2020

Network / loop trip analysis of Franconia Ridge trail system, NH (with Nat Scrimshaw)

https://panamericantrails.org

Mary Way - MÚTKE

Co-founder, former coordinator and board member of the 7-country long-distance pilgrimage way initiative

https://mariaut.hu
https://viamariae.sk
https://mariaut.ro

Kythera Trails - GFT

Green Flag Assessment during Green Flag Trails training course with the WTN

https://kytheratrails.gr/

MTSZ Hungary (member of ERA)

Trail system and waymarking improvements in the Hungarian hiking trail network (2012-14)

https://www.mtsz.org

BTSSz

Graduated at the hiking trail guide course, volunteering for trail marking

https://www.btssz.hu

Municipality of Esztergom

Coordinated development and maintenance of the hiking, pilgrimage and sport trails of the area

www.esztergom.hu

Műanyag SC

Hiking guide, event organizer & former volunteer coordinator for trail marking

Planning, scouting, developing new trail connections

https://muanyagsc.hu

HétKaland - 7 Adventures Association

Founding member, trip organizer and guide

(a former hiking club)

My favourite trails / areas & memorable hikes

(non-exhaustive, order has no significance)

Hoping for having time to share more details about these...

  • Childhood hikes in Buda, Pilis, Mátra, Bükk (HU), 
  • Danue Bend Area - Pilis Biosphere Reserve, Duna-Ipoly NP (HU)
  • Individual pilgrimage from Stary Sacz (PL) to Márianosztra (HU) - 4 weeks (2011)
  • Orla Perć - The Eagle Trail in the Tatras (Poland)
  • Salgótarján - Somoskő area, Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark (SK-HU)
  • Olymbos trek & climb (Greece)
  • Trails of Kythera & Skiathos Greece
  • Großvenediger trek & climb (Hohe Tauern, AT)
  • Ridnaun - high alpine trekking with ore mine visit in South Tyrol (IT)
  • Coastal path Eckernförde - Kiel (SH, Germany)
  • WTN pre-conference trail journey - Section pilgrimage along de Camino de Santiago (2018, ES)
  • Costa Rica - Sendero Pacifico, and sections of the Camino de Costa Rica
  • Triglav trek (5 days through the national park) (SLO)
  • Various hikes in Austria & Switzerland
  • Sächsische Schweiz, Elbe valley (DE)
  • Padis carstic region (Transylvania, RO)
  • Slovenský raj carstic region (SK)
  • Rax-Schneeberg area (Wiener Alpen, AT) - climbing and hiking routes
  • Hohe Wand (AT) - climbing and hiking routes
  • Műanyag SC summer hiking weeks in Zemplén, Mecsek and other areas (HU)
  • "Gigatúra" for the founding anniversary of Műanyag SC (HU-SK, 3 weeks)
  • White Mountains - Franconia Ridge loop (NH, US)
  • Bruce Trail along the Huron Lake side (ON, CA)
  • The first Living Rosary pilgrimage around Vienna (2003, AT)
  • Mary Way pilgrimage from Budapest to Mariazell (2007, HU-AT)
  • Mary Way pilgrimage from Budapest to Czestochowa (HU-SK-PL, not hiked yet fully)
  • Hiking in the area of Ciuc / Csík (RO)
  • Aosta Valley - various locations (IT)
  • Climbing the Allalinhorn peak along the Hohlaubgrat (CH)
  • Spiritual exercises on the Simplonpass by Living Stones (CH)
  • Taiwan - Mountain to Sea Greenway, hiking trails along the Alishan Railway route
  • Vízhordók útja - walking stairs on the ramparts in Buda Castle (Budapest, HU)