Wooden farmhouses with balconies overflowing with red geraniums line the streets of Oberstdorf, a Bavarian resort nestled in the Allgäu Alps. This southernmost town in Germany offers year-round mountain activities: skiing in winter on the Nebelhorn and Fellhorn, hiking in summer through valleys carpeted with alpine flowers. The Breitachklamm gorge, one of the most impressive […]
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Spruce forests stretch across the rounded summits of the Harz Mountains, their dark green broken only by the granite outcrops that punctuate the high plateau. The Harz National Park protects one of the largest continuous forested areas in Germany, a landscape of deep river valleys, waterfalls, and the iconic Brocken peak, the highest mountain in […]
Categories: Germany, National Parks, Nature, Nature
The Hungarian puszta stretches to the horizon, a vast grassy plain where the sky feels twice as large as anywhere else. Hortobágy National Park protects this ancient landscape of marshes, meadows, and grazing herds. Grey longhorn cattle with wide horns stand motionless in the heat haze. Racka sheep with spiral horns wander past traditional wells […]
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
Perched at 1,407 metres in the Arlberg region of western Austria, the village of Stuben is a tiny alpine settlement that holds an outsized place in skiing history. This is the cradle of Alpine skiing, the place where the first ski club in the Alps was founded in 1901 and where the techniques of modern […]
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hidden in the limestone cliffs of the Western Tatras, Mylna Cave is one of Poland’s most accessible and rewarding natural wonders. The cave, whose name translates to deceptive in Polish, earned its name from the confusing network of passages that can easily disorient first-time visitors. With a total length of about 1,600 metres, of which […]
The Hautes Fagnes, or High Fens, is a landscape unlike any other in Belgium. Stretching across the eastern border with Germany, this vast peat bog plateau sits at an altitude of over 600 metres, creating a unique ecosystem of raised bogs, heathland, and stunted birch forests that feel more like Scandinavia than the Low Countries. […]
The Akamas Peninsula juts into the Mediterranean from the northwest coast of Cyprus, a rugged wilderness of limestone gorges, sea caves, and sandy coves that has escaped the development that has reshaped much of the island’s coastline. This is one of the last truly wild landscapes in Cyprus, a protected national park covering 230 square […]
The coastline of the Cilento National Park stretches for 100 kilometres along the Tyrrhenian Sea, a sequence of cliffs, coves, and sandy beaches that rivals the Amalfi Coast but draws a fraction of the crowds. Inland, the mountains of the Cilento rise to over 1,800 metres, covered in forests of chestnut, oak, and beech. The […]
Categories: Italy, National Parks, Nature, Nature, Sea Sites
Menorca has escaped the mass tourism that transformed its larger sister Mallorca into a strip of concrete hotel blocks. The second largest of the Balearic Islands has strict building regulations that have preserved its coastline as it was fifty years ago. The Cami de Cavalls, a 185-kilometre coastal path, circles the entire island, passing through […]
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