The water of the Verdon River is an impossible shade of turquoise, like a liquid gem. The limestone cliffs rise seven hundred meters on either side, their white and ochre walls plunging straight into the river below. From the rim, you hear only the faint echo of distant voices and the buzz of crickets in […]
The limestone cliffs rise three hundred metres above the Ardèche river, their pale faces carved by millions of years of water and wind. Canoeists glide through emerald waters beneath natural stone arches, passing through a landscape so dramatic that it has earned the nickname European Grand Canyon. The Ardèche Gorges Nature Reserve protects over thirty […]
Darkness rises from the depths of the Macocha Abyss, a gaping chasm that plunges 138 metres into the limestone heart of the Moravian Karst. This is the deepest abyss of its kind in Central Europe, a vertical shaft formed by the collapse of an underground cave ceiling. From the upper viewing platform, the bottom seems […]
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Rushing water echoes between towering limestone walls as you enter the Torrent de Pareis Gorge on Mallorca’s rugged coast. This dramatic canyon, carved by a torrent over millions of years, narrows to a passage where the sky becomes a sliver of brilliant blue high above. Smooth pebbles crunch beneath your feet as you follow the […]
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Vintgar Gorge (Soteska Vintgar) is one of Slovenia’s most breathtaking natural attractions, a 1.6-kilometre-long chasm carved by the crystal-clear Radovna River through the vertiginous limestone walls of the Julian Alps, just a few kilometres from the iconic Lake Bled. A wooden boardwalk clinging to the cliff face takes visitors through a Tolkien-esque landscape of thundering […]
The Rappenlochschlucht and Alploch Gorges near Dornbirn in Vorarlberg, Austria, form one of Central Europe’s most spectacular gorge systems, a dramatic sequence of narrow canyon passages, thundering waterfalls, and towering limestone walls carved by glacial meltwater over millions of years. The Rappenlochschlucht in particular features one of the highest accessible gorge walls in the Eastern […]
Updated: September 8, 2020 | By Claire | More Bärenschützklamm is a gorge located in Fischbacher Alps, near the town of Mixnitz, about 35 km from the capital of Styria – Graz. The brook, which flows through a gorge creates very nice waterfalls. On the top of the Bärenschützklamm, there is a mountain chalet where […]
