Transylvania occupies 100,293 square kilometres of central Romania, surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains on three sides. The name means “the land beyond the forest” and the forest is the first thing you notice: beech and oak in the lower valleys, spruce and fir on the higher slopes, covering 60 percent of the land. The region […]
Kemeri National Park sprawls across the coastal lowlands of Latvia, a vast wetland wilderness where boardwalks lead through misty moors and sulphur springs bubble up from deep below the surface. Established in 1997 as the third largest national park in Latvia, it protects more than 380 square kilometres of forests, swamps, lakes, and lagoons along […]
