The sound of the Robečský Stream grows louder as you descend into the steep, forested valley that locals call Peklo, or Hell. Despite the intimidating name, this national natural monument in the Czech Republic offers a landscape of serene beauty rather than damnation. Rocky cliffs rise on either side of the rushing water, carved by […]
Categories: Czech Republic, Nature
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
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 […]
