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 […]
Categories: National Parks, Nature, Nature, Slovakia
Ostuni is la Città Bianca, the White City, one of the most spectacular hill towns in southern Italy, a dazzling cascade of whitewashed houses, staircases, and alleyways rising from the olive groves of Puglia’s Valle d’Itria whose uniformly white-painted architecture (originally a medieval sanitary measure using lime wash to disinfect the streets, now a beloved […]
Lamprecht’s Cave in the Salzburg region of Austria is the most accessible deep cave in the world, a 50-kilometre network of passages that you can walk into without any special equipment, following a path that leads through vast chambers, narrow corridors, and carved staircase passages that descend over 1,632 metres into the limestone mountain, making […]
Slovenia is a small country with great nature, a green jewel tucked between the Alps, the Mediterranean, and the Pannonian Plain that crams an extraordinary diversity of landscapes into an area smaller than Wales: Alpine peaks (the Julian Alps and Triglav, the national symbol), turquoise rivers (the Soča, arguably the most beautiful river in Europe), […]
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