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Primeval Beech Forests
Adrian Turtschi Germany - 25-Jul-23
Jizera Mountains, July 2023
Giant boulders dot the landscape of Jizerské Hory, the Isergebirge of lore, making for rather spectacular hiking across an impressive landscape located in northern Bohemia, close the Czech-Polish-German tripoint
I’ve spent the night in Hejnice, a small town well-connected by hourly trains to lively Liberec, the nearest transportation hub. Hejnice lives off tourism and maybe the odd pilgrim visiting the rather grand church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, with an old Franciscan monastery attached next to it. Sadly, the monks are long gone, but the monastery offers basic but absolutely acceptable accommodation in a peaceful setting, save maybe for the quarter-hourly ringing of the bells which I did not mind at all. In the old refectorium tasty local cuisine is being served. The hostel has a very useful free map of the area with all the trails, a blow up of the official 1:25000 map which is also sold in local bookstores and the main tourist office back in Liberec
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Adrian Turtschi Germany - 09-Jul-23
Jasmund Beech Forest, June 2023
Jasmund National Park Beech Forest is situated on the homonymous peninsula on the north-eastern coast of the island of Rügen, facing the Baltic Sea. Jasmund is known for its ancient beech trees - some of these trees are estimated to be around 700 years old and reach heights of up to 40 meters - stunning natural scenery, and rich biodiversity.
What makes the landscape so extraordinarily beautiful and uniquely attractive are the famous (Caspar David Friedrich!) white chalk cliffs of Rügen, rising dramatically from the Baltic Sea, with the beech forest located on a plateau some 100-150 meters towering above, extending right to the very edge of the cliffs, with various intermittent viewing points offering breathtaking vistas of the Baltic Sea.
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Adrian Turtschi Germany - 23-Jun-23
Hainich Beech Forest, June 2023
A bear! – I was stopped dead in my tracks this early morning in June suddenly spotting a rather large dark animal some 5 meters up a beech tree close to the trail, apparently looking at me. I somewhat panicked and proceeded to quickly leave the scene. What at this moment appeared to be a small bear must have been, of course, reflecting on the encounter a bit later in more calmness, just a racoon, its white stripes obscured by the dimness of the forest in the early hours. Small vindication, then, that at least in the German language a racoon is called a Waschbär, hence, at least lexicologically, a kind of bear.
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Adrian Turtschi Germany - 07-Jun-23
Serrahn Beech Forest, June 2023
Serrahn is a small beech forest, UNESCO-inscribed in 2011, which forms part of the larger Müritz National Park in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, around 90 minutes north of Berlin. The wider area, dubbed by the local tourist board as "the land of a thousand lakes", centered around lake Müritz, the largest inland water body in Germany, is partly hilly but mostly flat, shaped by the last Ice Age, sparsely populated and mainly covered by forests, lakes and marshes, and these days popular for all kind of recreational activities, including hiking in the woods.
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Adrian Turtschi Germany - 22-Jun-22
Grumsin Beech Forest, June 2022
The forest can be visited as a half-day trip from Berlin via public transport. As other reviewers have pointed out the actual UNESCO-listed property is “verboten” to be visited on your own – there are paid official guided tours available, which require pre-booking well in advance. There are four official signposted hike trails which pass through the buffer zone and touch the borders of the core forest areas, but do not enter or cross it.
Even though Grumsin is close to Metropolis Berlin the area of the forest is very rural and the main access road to the little hamlet of Grumsin proper [...]
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- Delhi - A Heritage City (T)
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- Historical City Centre of Yogyakarta (T)
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- Lake Titicaca (T)
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- Residence Ensemble Schwerin - Cultural Landscape of Romantic Historicism (T)
- Sacred Titicaca Lake (T)
- Sarajevo - unique symbol of universal multiculture - continual open city (T)
- Siwa archaeological area (T)
- St. George Fortified System (T)
- St. George Historic District (T)
- Suakin (T)
- Svalbard Archipelago (T)
- Tbilisi Historic District (T)
- The Ancient Plovdiv (T)
- The Bodrum Castle (T)
- The concept of the lenticular historical town core of Kosice City (T)
- The Historic and Marine Landscape of the Banda Islands (T)
- The Old Town of Jakarta (T)
- Victoria Lines Fortifications (T)
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