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Most people complete the route, which follows cattle drover paths and 18th Century military roads, over six or seven days.

As part of the Transhumance Festival, organizers make a symbolic payment for the right to use the drovers’ route that crosses the capital.

She said the experience drover her to create the Biden Breast Health Initiative, which educated young girls in Delaware about breast health.

At one end of town, three drovers head their teams of oxen through the streets and into the surrounding hills to haul down freshly cut pine trunks on narrow carts.

Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon labouring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.