British winters are not always grey. When frost etches the hedgerows and low sunlight turns the landscape golden, the gardens and nature reserves of the United Kingdom put on a show of their own. The Eden Project’s biomes glow with tropical warmth while rain streams down the outside. Kew Gardens’ Temperate House shelters rare plants […]
Categories: Nature, United Kingdom
The temperature hovers just below freezing, and the walls around you are carved from three hundred tons of crystal-clear ice. The ice hotel in Zwolle, Netherlands, offers a sleeping experience unlike any other. You lie on a block of ice covered with reindeer skins, zipped into a thermal sleeping bag rated for arctic conditions. The […]
Categories: Amusement and Theme Parks, Netherlands
hidden in the limestone cliffs of the Western Tatras, Mylna Cave is one of Poland’s most accessible and rewarding natural wonders. The cave, whose name translates to deceptive in Polish, earned its name from the confusing network of passages that can easily disorient first-time visitors. With a total length of about 1,600 metres, of which […]
A walkway suspended over a roaring alpine river, carved into the vertical walls of a gorge over 15 metres high, was originally built in 1875 to make a geological wonder accessible to tourists who arrived by the new railway to the spa town of Bad Hofgastein, and today the Liechtenstein Gorge is still one of […]
