The Pindus Mountains run like a jagged spine down the centre of Greece, dividing the mainland into two distinct worlds. On the western side, the Ionian Sea sends moisture-laden winds that create some of the greenest landscapes in the country. On the eastern side, the rain shadow produces the dry, sunbaked terrain that most visitors […]
Updated: August 26, 2020 | By Claire | More Bovec is a popular resort in the Julian Alps. It is a town located in the north-western part of Slovenia, just about 80 kilometers from the capital city of Ljubljana. Nestled in the Soca Valley at the foot of Mount Kanin, Bovec enjoys a spectacular alpine […]
Zoo Karlsruhe is one of Germany’s oldest and best zoological gardens, a 22-hectare zoological park in the heart of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, that has been delighting visitors since 1865 and is consistently ranked among the most family-friendly and attractively landscaped zoos in the country. The zoo’s historic heart is the Stadtgarten, a beautiful English-style landscape park, […]
Updated: July 25, 2020 | By Claire | More The Three Climate Zones of Fata Morgana The Fata Morgana greenhouse is ingeniously divided into three distinct climate zones, each carefully calibrated to replicate the natural habitats of distant ecosystems around the world. The first zone greets visitors with the arid landscapes of the Australian bush […]
Categories: Czech Republic, Nature
Updated: September 20, 2020 | By Claire | More The Nemunas River spreads into a labyrinth of channels, lagoons, and marshy islands as it approaches the Baltic Sea. This is the Nemunas Delta, a vast wetland wilderness that has been called the Venice of Lithuania. The air is filled with the calls of birds, the […]
Updated: July 15, 2020 | By Claire | More The gentle gurgle of water against a canoe hull, the flash of a kingfisher darting along the riverbank, and the smell of woodsmoke from a riverside campfire – this is the essence of canoeing in the Czech Republic. With hundreds of rivers winding through forests, past […]
Categories: Czech Republic, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Porto Katsiki Beach is one of the most beautiful beaches in Greece, a spectacular strip of white pebbles and impossibly turquoise water on the Ionian island of Lefkada, backed by dramatic white limestone cliffs that plunge vertically into the sea and are accessible by a steep staircase that descends from the cliff-top car park to […]
Categories: Greece, Nature, Nature, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Góry Stołowe (Table Mountains) are one of Poland’s most unusual and photogenic landscapes, a sprawling natural park of flat-topped sandstone mountains, fantastical rock labyrinths, and deep forested gorges on the Czech border in Lower Silesia. Part of the Central Sudetes range and the only plate-structured mountains in Poland, the Table Mountains offer hiking through terrain […]
Plunging a staggering 1,733 metres into the Earth’s crust, Gouffre Mirolda is the deepest known cave in France and the third deepest on the planet. hidden beneath the Savoy Alps near the Swiss and Italian borders, this subterranean giant represents one of the most extraordinary feats of modern speleology, an extreme vertical labyrinth that few […]
Demänovská Ice Cave (Demänovská ľadová jaskyňa) is one of Slovakia’s most extraordinary natural wonders, one of the first ice caves in the world to be opened to the public and still one of the most spectacular, located in the Demänovská Valley of the Low Tatras where spectacular formations of permanent ice, frozen waterfalls, ice columns, […]
