The Gauja River has carved a valley so deep and green through the Latvian sandstone that locals call this corner of the country their Switzerland. Sigulda sits above the river, where the ruins of Turaida Castle rise from a forested ridge like a fairy tale forgotten by time. In autumn, the deciduous trees ignite in […]
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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