Møns Klint is Denmark’s most dramatic natural wonder, a 6-kilometre stretch of brilliant white chalk cliffs rising 128 metres above the turquoise Baltic Sea on the island of Møn. Formed from the fossilised shells of microscopic coccolithophores over 70 million years ago, these gleaming cliffs offer one of northern Europe’s most breathtaking coastal landscapes, rich […]
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 […]
Categories: National Parks, Nature, Nature, Slovakia
Lake Königssee in the Berchtesgaden National Park is Germany’s third deepest lake, reaching 190 metres at its maximum depth, and its famously clear, cold water is so protected that only electric-powered boats with special permits have been allowed to navigate it since the beginning of the 20th century, making it one of the cleanest lakes […]
Categories: Germany, Lakes, National Parks, Nature, Nature
