Sand stretches across the landscape in a place that should not exist. Błędów Desert covers about 33 square kilometres of southern Poland, a geological anomaly in the green heart of Europe. Loose sand shifted by wind creates dunes reminiscent of the Sahara. The desert formed centuries ago when deforestation and mining stripped the land of […]
Kuršių Nerija (Curonian Spit) National Park is one of Europe’s most unique landscapes, a 98-kilometre-long, narrow sand dune peninsula shared between Lithuania and Russia’s Kaliningrad region, where massive shifting dunes (some up to 60 metres high), ancient pine forests, and traditional fishing villages create a UNESCO World heritage landscape that is often called the Baltic […]
