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Berchtesgaden
At the foot of the Untersberg, the Almbach stream has been cutting deep into limestone and dolomite since the end of the last Ice Age. In the Almbachklamm between Marktschellenberg and Berchtesgaden you follow a trail of about 3 km with 29…
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Olsberg
Above the village of Bruchhausen four grey rock towers rise out of the forest on the Istenberg, so striking that you can see them from all over the valley. The Bruchhausen Rocks are among the most striking rock formations in the Sauerland…
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Eisenach
At its narrowest point, only 68 centimetres separate the rock walls. Walking through the Drachenschlucht (Dragon Gorge) on the southern edge of Eisenach, you follow metal gratings above a rushing stream, with mossy cliffs rising high on bo…
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Schönau am Königssee
Above you rises the Watzmann east face, the highest rock wall in the Eastern Alps; in front of you, in the middle of summer, lies a grey, gritty snowfield among the boulders. The Eiskapelle at the foot of the east face is the lowest year-r…
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Lautertal (Odenwald)
On the slopes of the Felsberg above Lautertal-Reichenbach lies a river of stone: thousands of dark-grey, rounded boulders spill through the beech forest like a frozen stream. The Felsenmeer (“sea of rocks”) in the Odenwald is just over 2 k…
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Bad Doberan
Tall, bare trunks leaning away from the sea, topped by a canopy the wind seems to have trimmed with shears: the Gespensterwald ("ghost forest") in the Baltic resort of Nienhagen, between Rostock-Warnemünde and Heiligendamm, is one of the m…
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Andernach
First it bubbles, then it hisses, and suddenly a white column of water stands above the trees on the riverbank. The Andernach Geyser on the Namedyer Werth peninsula shoots its water 50 to 60 m into the air, making it the highest cold-water…
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Nürnberg
The water here does not simply run downhill; it flows over little moss-green steps, pools and cascades. The sinter terraces in the Lillach valley near Weißenohe were built by the stream itself: limestone dissolved in the spring water is de…
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Fladungen
A wooden boardwalk leads through a landscape that looks more like Lapland than Franconia: small pines and gnarled birches, red peat mosses, dark pools and cotton grass. The Black Moor in the Bavarian Rhön, near the point where Bavaria, Hes…
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Lohmen
Between moss-green sandstone walls the path narrows until you pass beneath huge boulders that once fell from above and jammed between the cliffs. The Rock Gate in the Uttewalder Grund is one of the oldest motifs of Saxon Switzerland: Caspa…
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Ramsau bei Berchtesgaden
The Wimbach Gorge is short but striking: a wooden walkway leads just 200 metres or so through the narrow ravine, with the Wimbach roaring below and dozens of small waterfalls trickling down moss-covered rock on both sides. The gorge sits a…