HORSEBACK RIDING

If you love horses and beautiful scenery, and want to combine the two, working horseback riding into your holiday will leave you with some of your loveliest memories of the whole trip. Gentle pony trekking over rolling countryside, canters up forest trails or wild exhilarating gallops on the beach: there are horsey excursions to suit all ability levels. If you’ve never tried riding, you’ll be bowled over by the strength, beauty and kindness of these remarkable animals. And if you’re an old stable hand who’d like nothing better than to become a centaur, why not spend your whole holiday on horseback, riding Icelandic ponies beneath glaciers and volcanoes,  ranching in Wyoming, or sweeping across the Mongolian steppes like a modern-day Genghis Khan?