September 11, 2011
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Make the most of year-round sunshine in the Canaries Updated: September 11, 2020 | By Claire | More The summer is almost over now, so it’s time to start planning holidays for later on in the year. If you’re on the hunt for somewhere which offers plenty of year-round sunshine, top of your European wish-list […]
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Categories: Nature, Spain
July 19, 2011
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Nemunas Delta Natural Park – Venice of Lithuania Updated: September 20, 2020 | By Claire | More Nemunas is the longest river in Lithuania with a length of 475 km in the territory of Lithuania. The wild and beautiful landscape of the delta is actually a cluster of marshy islands which are situated on an […]
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Categories: Lithuania, Nature
February 22, 2011
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The Sil Canyon (Cañón del Sil) is one of the most spectacular river canyons in Spain — a deep, dramatic gorge carved by the Río Sil through the Ribeira Sacra wine region of Galicia in northwestern Spain, where the river’s vertical limestone walls rise up to 500 metres above the water and are terraced with […]
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Categories: Nature, Spain
August 30, 2010
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Lemmenjoki National Park is Finland’s largest national park and one of the most extensive wilderness areas in Europe — a 2,850 km² expanse of pristine boreal forest, vast open fells, and the wild Lemmenjoki River valley in Finnish Lapland that has been home to Sámi reindeer herders for centuries and remains one of the best […]
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Categories: Finland, Nature
May 9, 2010
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Seegrotte in Austria – the largest underground lake in Europe Updated: March 10, 2020 | By Claire | 2 Replies More Not far from Vienna, in the village of Hinterbrül, there is the cave system with the largest underground lake in Europe – Seegrotte, covering an area of 6,200 m². It is not a classic […]
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Categories: Austria, Nature
May 1, 2010
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Domica Cave is the largest cave in Slovakia and one of the crown jewels of the UNESCO-listed Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst World Heritage site — a vast underground system on the Slovak-Hungarian border featuring magnificent flowstone formations, pagoda-like stalagmites, and a navigable underground river that visitors can explore by boat. Discovered in […]
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Categories: Nature, Slovakia