Pirin National Park carves a rugged silhouette across southwestern Bulgaria. Granite peaks scrape the sky at over 2900 metres, their slopes streaked with ancient glaciers and alpine meadows. The air smells of resin and snowmelt even in high summer. Crystal-clear lakes dot the valleys like scattered mirrors reflecting the shifting clouds. Brown bears and chamois […]
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 […]
Weltvogelpark Walsrode is the world’s largest bird park, a 24-hectare aviary paradise in Lower Saxony, northern Germany, home to over 4,000 birds from 675 species from every continent on Earth, including rare and endangered birds that visitors can experience in enormous walk-through aviaries, spectacular free-flight shows, and one of the world’s most comprehensive bird breeding […]
Thayatal National Park is one of Austria’s most beautiful but least-known protected areas, a dramatic 13-kilometre-long valley on the Czech border where the Thaya River has carved a deep, meandering canyon through ancient metamorphic rock, creating a richly forested landscape that is home to wildcats, black storks, and over 40 species of orchid. Together with […]
Danube-Auen National Park is one of Europe’s last remaining large-scale floodplain ecosystems, a 9,300-hectare protected natural paradise of meandering river channels, old-growth riparian forest, and vast water meadows stretching along the Danube between Vienna and Bratislava. One of Austria’s six national parks and part of the transboundary Ramsar wetland complex shared with Slovakia, the Donau-Auen […]
