One of the most popular trails at Dana, and the only one without a guide, is the 14 km-long Wadi Dana Trail. First, we paid the entrance fee to the Dana Biosphere Reserve (🎟️ 10 JOD), and then we started our 5-hour hike from Dana to Feynan Ecolodge. This trail leads downhill but is not as...
We followed Google to the Ajloun Forrest Reserve Visitors Centre, which was a huge mistake. We ended up on steep, narrow streets in the middle of Ajloun, so we had a tough time driving through and finding the correct direction. After arrival, we found out that the only available unguided...
A one-hour drive from Trabzon to the south, in Kaçkars Mountains, you will find a lakeside mosque and forested mountains that recall Switzerland. The “hidden valley” of Uzungöl is not idyllic anymore. The tourist boom of recent years and the growing number of visitors from the Gulf States...
Another crowded place, but still worth visiting, is the Zelve Open-Air Museum (🎫 65 TRY – valid also for Fairy Chimneys,🅿️ – 25 TRY), where three valleys of crumbling cave-habitations and churches converge. Zelve was a monastic retreat from the 9th to the 13th century and then a...
Aşıklar (Love) Valley in Cappadocia is a place of natural wonders. Famed for its phallic rock formations and rough mountain ridges, it is one of the most popular hiking trails in Cappadocia. The famous viewpoint (🅿️ – 30 TRY), where you can camp overnight, is located above the...
We hiked around perfectly pink Güllüdere (Rose) Valley rock formations the whole afternoon. The trails that loop around the valley are easily accessible to all levels of hikers and provide some of the finest fairy-chimney-strewn vistas in Cappadocia. As well as this, they hide fabulous...
After a short ride we have parked in Starý Smokovec (3 hours / 8 EUR) – another popular ski resort, from where we took the Starý Smokovec–Hrebienok funicular (11 EUR / person) to the small peak Hrebienok at an altitude of 1285 meters. There we hiked in cloudy weather for an hour around...
Our next destination in the High Tatras was the famous Štrbské Pleso – the highest situated settlement in the Tatras Mountains (parking 10 EUR / day). This famous ski resort lies next to a picturesque mountain lake of glacial origin with the highest depth of 20 meters. It is fed by...
The weather in Bergen was not so good today, so we have decided to make a one-day outing. We drove through tunnels and narrow roads to the Osterøy museum. It is a folk museum beautifully located at Gjerstad near Osterøy (about 30 minutes from Bergen). The abandoned museum houses with...