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...
Tucked away within the forested hills and mountains of inner Anatolia, the lake region has an escapist, even otherworldly feel. At its heart is Eğirdir, a placid town overlooked by mountains Sivri (1749 m), Davraz (2653 m), and Barla (2800 m). It makes an excellent base for hiking or for...
Ioannina is set on a plateau on the western side of lovely lake Pamvotis, facing the gray limestone mass of Mount Mitsikéli. Ioannina was first mentioned in ecclesiastical registers of the 9th and 10th centuries as an important Byzantine city. At the beginning of the 13th century, it was...
Our next stop was a charming Kastoria city on the western shore of Lake Orestiada, in a valley surrounded by limestone mountains Grammos and Vitsi. We strolled around the tranquil Doltso, a picturesque corner of the town where buildings date back to the 17th and 18th centuries when the...
We drove in cloudy weather around Kosovo’s largest and most beautiful lake. It was formed by the damming of the Ibar River, which flows into the lake. As a project of former Yugoslavia, the damming of the Ibar for the creation of a reservoir and thus the generation of hydroelectricity...
We spent three days at The Masurian Lake District. It is a great lake district in northeastern Poland which contains more than 2000 lakes. The district had been elected as one of the 28 finalists of the New 7 Wonders of Nature. The Lakeland extends roughly 290 km eastwards from the lower...
After taking diesel at Slovnaft (1,09 EUR), we drove to a dam and lake in eastern Slovakia – Zemplínska šírava (sometimes called the “Slovak sea”). The dam was built in 1961–1965, it covers an area of 33 km2 and has an average depth of 9,5 meters, with a maximum depth of...
We took a half-day boat trip to explore The Telemark Canal waterway system. It was carved into the rock over 100 years ago. When the canal was completed in 1892, it was called the “eighth wonder”. The canal connects the coast of Telemark with the interior through eight locks...