Mount Giona is the fifth tallest mountain in Greece at 2,510 metres and the least known of the country’s major peaks. It sits in central Greece, between the regions of Phocis and Phthiotis, roughly 200 km northwest of Athens. The ski resort that operates on its northern slopes is small, local, and empty even in […]
Lake Prespa is actually two lakes: Megali Prespa and Mikri Prespa, Great and Small: that straddle the borders of Greece, Albania, and North Macedonia. Megali Prespa is the larger, shared by all three countries. Mikri Prespa is smaller and almost entirely within Greek territory, separated from its neighbour by a narrow strip of land. The […]
Categories: Greece, Nature, Nature, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Coto de Doñana is not a park you visit casually. It is a UNESCO World heritage Site and a Biosphere Reserve covering 54,252 hectares where the Guadalquivir River meets the Atlantic Ocean. The landscape shifts from marshland to dunes to Mediterranean forest in the space of a single walk. The wildlife is extraordinary: the Iberian […]
Categories: National Parks, Nature, Nature, Spain, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Achensee is the largest mountain lake in Austria at 6.8 square kilometres, and it sits in the Karwendel Alps in Tyrol, roughly 40 km northeast of Innsbruck. The lake is 929 metres above sea level. The water temperature in summer rarely exceeds 20 degrees Celsius. The mountains that surround it rise to 2,500 metres. The […]
Siccar Point is a rocky promontory on the coast of Berwickshire in southeast Scotland, and it is the most important geological site in the history of science. It was here, in 1788, that James Hutton, the father of modern geology, found the evidence that proved the Earth was far older than the 6,000 years that […]
Categories: Nature, United Kingdom
El Torcal de Antequera is a limestone karst landscape in the hills of Málaga province, and it looks as though a city of stone towers was abandoned before it was finished. The rock formations, carved by wind and water over 150 million years, rise in layered blocks that resemble the ruins of some ancient civilization. […]
Categories: Nature, Nature, Nature Reserves, Spain, Wellness, Relax & Sports
Lake Bled is the most photographed place in Slovenia, and the photograph never lies. The lake is a glacial lake in the Julian Alps, 2 km long and 1.4 km wide. In the middle of the lake is a small island with a 17th-century church. On a cliff above the eastern shore is a medieval […]
The Grande Cascade de Gavarnie is the highest waterfall in France at 422 metres, and it falls in three stages from the Cirque de Gavarnie, a natural amphitheatre in the Pyrenees carved by glaciers. The waterfall is not a thin stream. It is a broad curtain of water, fed by the meltwater of the Gavarnie […]
Categories: France, Nature, Nature, Waterfalls
The Cascate del Serio is the tallest waterfall in Italy at 315 metres, and it is only visible for a few hours each week. The water is regulated by a hydroelectric dam upstream, and the valve that releases the water into the natural falls is opened on a fixed schedule. The rest of the time […]
Categories: Italy, Nature, Nature, Waterfalls
The limestone peaks of the Julian Alps rise sharply against a sky so blue it feels painted just for you. At sunrise, the rock face of Mount Triglav catches the first golden light while the air stays crisp and thin, carrying the scent of pine and distant snow. Below, Lake Bohinj reflects the mountains in […]
