The Pieniny Mountains rise dramatically from the valley of the Dunajec River, their limestone peaks creating a landscape of extraordinary natural beauty on the border between Slovakia and Poland. Despite being the smallest and second oldest national park in Slovakia, established in 1967 and covering just 37 square kilometres, the Pieniny National Park is one […]
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Demänovská Ice Cave (Demänovská ľadová jaskyňa) is one of Slovakia’s most extraordinary natural wonders, one of the first ice caves in the world to be opened to the public and still one of the most spectacular, located in the Demänovská Valley of the Low Tatras where spectacular formations of permanent ice, frozen waterfalls, ice columns, […]
Jasovská cave – national natural monument of Slovakia \n \n\n Updated: June 10, 2020 |\n\n\nBy Claire \n\n| \n\n\nMore\n\n \n \n \n \n Jasovská cave (or Jasovská jaskyňa in Slovak) is located in the Slovak Karst, near the village Jasov, in the south-eastern part of the Slovak Republic. The cave has been known since time immemorial. […]
Ochtinská Aragonite Cave is one of the rarest cave systems in the world, one of only three aragonite caves on the planet open to the public, located in the Slovak Karst region of central Slovakia, where delicate needle-like crystals of aragonite (a rare polymorph of calcium carbonate) create surreal, star-like formations on the cave walls […]
Gerlachovský štít is the highest peak in Slovakia and the entire High Tatras mountain range, soaring to 2,655 metres above sea level in a dramatic pyramid of granite that dominates the skyline of Central Europe’s most spectacular alpine massif. More than just a statistic, summiting Gerlach is one of the most rewarding mountaineering experiences in […]
Dunajec River Canyon is a gorge and famous tourist attraction on the border between Poland and Slovakia. Due to its beauty and uniqueness it is on the UNESCO World heritage list. The canyon separates the Małopolska Voivodship (Poland) and Prešov Region (Slovakia). It is a natural phenomenon where the Dunajec River breaks through the Pieniny […]
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Zelené pleso (Green Lake) is one of the most beautiful places in the Slovak High Tatras, a shimmering emerald tarn at 1,545 metres nestling beneath the dramatic northeast face of Malý Kežmarský štít and surrounded by some of the most spectacular mountain scenery in Central Europe. The lake is the focal point of the Dolina […]
Kmeťov vodopád (Kmeť’s Waterfall) is the highest waterfall in Slovakia, a spectacular 80-metre cascade in the remote Kôprova Valley (Kôprová dolina) of the High Tatras, plunging down a near-vertical granite wall in one of the Tatra National Park’s most pristine and less-visited valleys. Named after the Slovak botanist and ethnographer Andrej Kmeť, this waterfall is […]
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Poloniny National Park is Slovakia’s most remote and wild protected area, a UNESCO-listed wilderness of primeval beech forests, high mountain meadows (poloniny), and traditional wooden churches in the far northeast of the country, where the borders of Slovakia, Poland, and Ukraine meet. Designated a UNESCO World heritage site as part of the “Ancient and Primeval […]
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Muránska planina National Park is one of Slovakia’s most beautiful and least-visited protected areas, a vast limestone plateau in central Slovakia where the magnificent Muráň Castle ruins perch on a 935-metre-high ridge, wild horses (the Noriker breed, reintroduced to maintain the grassland) roam the high pastures, and the biodiversity is so exceptional that the park […]
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