January 13, 2011
by europeexplored
Marineland is one of Europe’s premier marine zoological parks — a large dolphinarium, marine zoo, and water park complex on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain that offers dolphin and sea lion shows, a walk-through aquarium, and a water park with slides and pools. Located in the popular resort area near Málaga and Torremolinos, […]
Tags: aquapark, blue-bus, boomerang, costa-brava, dolphinarium, kamikaze, malgrat-de-mar, marine-zoo, marineland, natural-habitat, negative-impact, outdoor-water-park, parrots, pineda-de-mar, santa-susanna, sea-lions, slides, smart-dolphins, spain, theme-park, twister, water-attractions, water-park
Categories: Amusement and Theme Parks, Nature, Spain, Wellness, Relax & Sports
January 12, 2011
by europeexplored
Pirin National Park in one of the highest mountains in Europe | Bulgaria Updated: May 15, 2020 | By Claire | More Pirin National Park is a part of one of the highest mountains in Europe – Pirin Mountains located in southwestern Bulgaria. The highest mountain peak is Pirin Vichren (2914). The big area of […]
Tags: bulgaria, caves, endemic, flora, glacial-lakes, highest-mountain-peak, highest-mountains-in-europe, national-park, pirin-mountains, pirin-national-park, rare-species, ski-resorts, southwestern-bulgaria, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, waterfalls, world-heritage-list
Categories: Bulgaria, Nature
January 10, 2011
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Dunajec River Canyon in Pieniny national park in Slovakia Updated: June 29, 2020 | By Claire | More Dunajec River Canyon is a gorge and a famous tourist attraction on the borders between Poland and Slovakia. Due to its beauty and uniqueness of Dunajec River Canyon it is also on the list of UNESCO World […]
Tags: animal-species, architectural-attractions, baltic-sea, canyon, conical-shape, dunajec, dunajec-river, excellent-starting-point, flatboat, narrow-gap, national-park, natural-phenomenon, niedzica, pieniny, pieniny-national-park, rare-plants, region-slovakia, seven-turns, slovak-territory, slovak-village, slovakia, towering-cliffs, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-sites, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Nature, Slovakia
January 10, 2011
by europeexplored
The Wadden Sea (Waddenzee) is one of the world’s most extraordinary and productive coastal ecosystems — a UNESCO World Heritage tidal flat system stretching 500 kilometres along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, where 10–12 million migratory birds stop each year to refuel on one of the planet’s greatest avian migration highways. This […]
Tags: biosphere-reserve, coastal-plain, den-helder, dries, dutch-coast, fauna-and-flora, flora-and-fauna, habitat, moist-land, mussels, netherlands, north-sea, outflow, river-ems, shock-waves, snails, tourist-area, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-list, unique-natural-habitat, wadden-sea, waddenzee
Categories: Nature, Netherlands
January 9, 2011
by europeexplored
Sněžka is the highest peak in the Czech Republic — a distinctive 1,603-metre mountain on the Polish border whose flat, windswept summit is crowned by the extraordinary disc-shaped St. Lawrence Chapel and a futuristic meteorological observatory that looks like something from another planet. Accessible via multiple well-marked trails from both the Czech and Polish sides, […]
Tags: 1602m, 17th-century, borders, good-weather, hiking-trails, krkonose, mountains, panoramic-view, part-of-the-czech-republic, poland, polish-side, post-office, rotunda, snezka, the-highest-peak-of-czech-republic, tourist-destination
Categories: Czech Republic, Nature
December 17, 2010
by europeexplored
Abruzzo National Park is one of Italy’s oldest and most important protected areas — a 500 km² wilderness of pristine beech forests, alpine meadows, and limestone peaks in the Apennine Mountains of central Italy that is home to the critically endangered Marsican brown bear, the Apennine wolf, and the Abruzzo chamois, a goat-antelope found nowhere […]
Tags: abruzzo, abruzzo-national-park, altitude, barrea, brown-bears, chamois, hunting-ground, information-centers, islet, italy, last-resort, mountain-goat, mountain-peaks, multimedia-presentation, narrow-gorges, national-park, nature, nature-reserve, number-11, open-valleys, peasants, peculiarities, walking-through-the-park, wolves
Categories: Italy, Nature
December 15, 2010
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The Škocjan Caves in Slovenia are one of the most extraordinary underground wonders on Earth — a UNESCO World Heritage site where the Reka River thunders through a massive subterranean canyon 146 metres deep. Forget tiny stalactite-filled passages; Škocjan delivers an underground spectacle on a truly colossal scale, with chambers so vast they could swallow […]
Tags: cave, cave-system, caves, karst, kilometers, largest-known-underground-canyon-in-the-world, largest-underground-canyon-in-the-world, map, natural-monuments, nature, skocjan, skocjan-caves, slovenia, underground-canyon, unesco, waterfalls, world-heritage-sites
Categories: Nature, Slovenia
December 14, 2010
by europeexplored
The Grotte di Frasassi are one of the most spectacular karst cave systems in the world — a vast underground complex in the Marche region of central Italy whose immense chambers include the Abisso Ancona, a single cavern so large (240 metres long, 120 metres high) that Milan’s entire Duomo could fit comfortably inside it. […]
Tags: 27-september, admission, adventure-trails, cave, caves, drops-of-water, frasassi-caves, gaze, grotte-di-frasassi, italy, narrow-pathways, nature, professional-guides, route-visitors, scenery, silence, splendid-rooms, tourist-route, underground-passages, upside-down-world, world-italy
Categories: Italy, Nature
December 5, 2010
by europeexplored
Storforsen is the largest unregulated rapid in Europe — a thundering 5-kilometre-long cascade system in Swedish Lapland where the Pite River drops 82 metres through a chaos of boulders, chutes, and thundering whitewater in one of Scandinavia’s most powerful and accessible natural spectacles. Unlike most major European rapids, Storforsen has never been harnessed for hydroelectric […]
Tags: biggest-rapids-in-europe, europe, floods, m3, nature, nordic-countries, norrbotten, northwest, rapids, river, storforsen, sweden
Categories: Nature, Sweden
December 2, 2010
by europeexplored
The Amalfi Coast (Costiera Amalfitana) is widely considered the most beautiful coastline in Europe — a 50-kilometre stretch of UNESCO-listed Mediterranean paradise on the southern edge of the Sorrentine Peninsula where pastel-coloured cliffside villages, terraced lemon groves, and the impossibly blue Tyrrhenian Sea create one of the most coveted travel destinations on the planet. From […]
Tags: agerola, amalfi, amalfi-coast, amalfitana-coast, architectural-monuments, beautiful-gardens, cetara, coast, conca-dei-marini, early-middle-ages, italy, maiori, praiano, ravello, romantic-village, sorrento-peninsula, spectacular, spectacular-panoramic-views, terrain-variety, town, unesco, unesco-world-heritage, unesco-world-heritage-site, vietri-sul-mare, world-heritage-site
Categories: Italy, Nature, Sights