Travel to Greece. BEACH NAVAGIO

   This beach is known all over the world for its bright postcards and colorful guidebooks. "Navagio" is considered to be one of the most beautiful in Greece. It is located in the north-west Ionian island of Zakynthos, near the village of Anafotiria. 

   You can get here only by sea: the beach is surrounded on three sides by steep rocks, and you can admire this miracle of nature only from a height.

   It is impossible to resist the charm of this place. Fine golden sand, high cliffs and sea water of unusual blue color - all this attracts many travelers, the beach is never deserted. 

   Although a few decades ago it was only a little-known bay, which bore the name of St. George. Everything changed in the early 1980s, when Panagiotis, a ship carrying contraband cargo to neighboring Italy, ran aground. The vessel was abandoned by the owners to rust directly on the beach, which has since been called "shipwreck beach" (in Greek Namyio), or "smugglers' beach". 

   And Panagiotis is a popular tourist destination and the only source of shade on the beach in the hot midday.

Plane / bus from Athens to the city of Zakynthos on the island of the same name - from 75 € / 25 €, 6 hours.

Accommodation in Zakynthos: 
Single - 60 €,
Double - 70 €.

Travel to Greece. VIKOS GORGE

   The Vikos-Aoos National Park is a paradise with clear rivers and untouched forests, flowering meadows and sparkling lakes reflecting mountains and a bottomless sky.

Travel to Greece. LAKE OF ORESTIAD

    Lake Orestiada - a living monument of history. According to scientists, it was formed about 10 million years ago, so a visit to it can be called a journey into the past. Its name was received in honor of mountain nymphs orestiad, living on the coastal hills.

Travel to Greece. WOODEN STONE LESBOS

   More than 20 million years ago, the climate in Lesbos was more humid than now, and the island was covered with dense subtropical forests. Here grew the ancestors of modern laurels, as well as evergreen sequoias.

Travel to Spain. BRIDGE PUENTEDEY

   Puente dei is a small village in the northern part of the Spanish province of Burgos. One its name makes you pay attention to this small town: from Spanish it is translated as "divine bridge". 

Travel to Spain. BEACH "SOTAVENTO"

   Snow-white sand, washed by the Atlantic Ocean - this is the magnificent beach "Sotavento" with a length of 30 km. Despite the huge area, it is still far from civilization; being here, tourists get into conditions of wild nature. 

Travel to Spain. IBIZA

   The ancient Greeks called the island of Ibiza (Ibiza, Ibiza) an island of pine trees. Even after many centuries, one can understand why: about half of the territory, especially the north-east of the island, not touched by civilization, is covered with forests. 

Travel to Spain. LANZAROTE

   The black beaches of Lanzarote, the most northern and easternmost in the Canary archipelago, are the result of violent volcanic activity. No wonder Lanzarote is called an island of fire-breathing mountains, or simply a fiery island - Isla del Fuego.

Travel to Spain. THE BEACH OF THE CATHEDRALS

   Nature is an amazingly talented sculptor. If you come to the north-east of Spain, you can once again make sure of this. Here, 10 km from the town of Ribadeo, there is an amazing beach of the Holy Water.

Travel to Spain. UREDERRA RIVER

   The river Urederra, notable for its emerald-blue water, is located in northern Spain, in the province of Navarre, and attracts the landscapes of rare beauty. The river originates in the karst massif of Urbas at an altitude of 700 m above sea level. 

Travel to Spain. ARCHIPELAG CIES

   On the famous map of Ptolemy, compiled in the II. n. e., there is an interesting place called "island of the Gods". If we compare the creation of Ptolemy with the modern map of the world, it turns out that the island of the Gods is nothing more than the archipelago of Sies belonging to the Spanish autonomous region of Galicia. It is located at the northern coast of the country and since 2002 is protected by a national park. The places here are really divinely beautiful.

Travel to Spain. PALMERAL ELCHE

    PALMERAL - PALM GROVES AROUND THE CITY ELCHE.

   The palmeral Elche is about 200 thousand palm trees. Some palms are shaggy and require immediate haircut, others are skillfully circumcised and well-groomed, each about 250 years of age. 

Travel to Spain. BEACH "ILETAS"

   The beach "Illetas" is a paradise for ecotourism lovers, devotees of a respectable beach holiday and just lovers of beautiful nature. It is a snow-white sandy spit, washed on two sides by the Mediterranean Sea. 

Travel to Spain. NATIONAL PARK OF WILD NATURE "TEYDE"

   Teide is not only the largest national park in Spain, occupying an area of ​​189.9 km2, but also the most popular - about 4 million tourists visit it every year. "Teide" was created to preserve unique natural landscapes, where 14 species of endemic plants grow. 

Travel to Spain. MONTE-PERDIDO

   In the heart of the Spanish Pyrenees there are limestone peaks, similar to the ridge of a huge dragon, the most famous of which is the summit of Monte Perdido (3355 m) (in the translation from Spanish and French the "lost mountain"), the third highest peak in the Pyrenees. 

Travel to Spain. COSTA BRAVA

  Costa Brava - the northern Mediterranean coast of Spain, which begins near the town of Blanes and almost 200 km ends at the French border. In Spanish, the name of this region means "severe shore", or "shore of the brave", and it is not groundless. 

Travel to Spain. THE NATIONAL PARK "GARAKHONAI"

   The island of Homer - the sixth largest island of the Canary archipelago and the only one on which there are no traces of volcanic activity. Having been here, you might think that civilization has not touched it and nothing has changed since the Spanish conquest. 

Travel to Spain. SEMINARS BARDENAS REALES

   The reality of the landscape is hard to believe. It seems that before the eyes of Africa or America, but not Europe. Such an atypical landscape for the Old World can be seen in the north of Spain, in the province of Navarre, next to the orchards and olive groves. 

Travel to Spain. RIO-TINTO RIVER

   The Rio Tinto River is popular with tourists because of its unusual red-brown color - it owes them impurities to iron and other metals, which are rich in coastal areas. 

Travel to Spain. THE DESERT TABERNAS

   The desert in Europe is not a fantasy. In the south of Spain in the province of Almeria is the Tabernas desert, which covers an area of ​​280 km2. It is located in the basin and is surrounded by mountains, so the wet Mediterranean winds do not reach here. 

Travel to Spain. ROMAN GOLD MINES OF LAS MÉDULAS

   Ancient Roman gold mines of Las Médulas is located 20 km from Ponferrada. In the first century ad, they served as the main source of gold for the entire Roman Empire. 

Travel to Spain. NATIONAL PARK DOÑANA

    National Park "Doñana" is the most famous in Spain, one of the last places in Europe where there are huge wetlands. 

Travel to Germany. THE WADDEN SEA

   Watts called the chain of shallow lagoons scattered along the coast of the North sea. 

Travel to Germany. NATIONAL PARK "BERCHTESGADEN"

   National Park "Berchtesgaden" surprised by the length of Hiking trails, 230 km. On them slowly walk visitors enjoying the mountain scenery and inhaling the aromas of Alpine herbs. You can also join one of the thematic tours, which are offered to the tourists by the Park administration. 

Travel to Germany. THE BROCKEN MOUNTAIN

   The Brocken (1141 m) is a slice of Iceland, hidden in the center of Germany. Related to this Northern country with a harsh climate and weather extremes: 306 days a year the mountain is shrouded in mist and 100 days covered with snow. The average annual temperature at the Broken not up to +3 °C , and the winds blow at a speed of almost 300 km/h. 

Travel to Germany. LAKE KÖNIGSSEE

   Being close to the lake königsee, which is located almost on the border with Austria, it is hard to believe that this is not the Norwegian fjords, so similar to them of the surrounding landscape. But it's Sunny Bavaria, and the lake was formed in the last ice age by melting glaciers. 

Travel to Germany. SAXON SWITZERLAND

   This area has received in the XVIII century by two Swiss painters who came here to the open air. They liked it so much mountain and forest landscapes that were very much like their homeland, they decided to stay here forever, saying that I had found my Switzerland. 

Travel to France. PINK GRANITE COAST

   This amazing area stretches for 9 km along the coast between the towns of Perros-Guirec and Trébeurden. The collection comprises numerous granite boulders of different shapes and unusual pink color, although their tone is very much dependent on the weather. 

Travel to Germany. PRIMEVAL BEECH FORESTS OF THE CARPATHIANS AND GERMANY

   Several thousand years ago, beech forests covered almost half of the European continent. Today of it remind only the protected zone of Germany, Slovakia and Ukraine.

Travel to Europe. GERMANY

THE WONDERS OF GERMAN NATURE

   Welcome to the coven! Yes, in Germany there is the mountain, where the evil power is going on "symposia". Here you will learn why the witches have chosen this mountain if you are lucky, you will witness the amazing optical effect, which affects no less than the dangerous proximity of eloquent force.

THE BROCKEN MOUNTAIN

Travel to France. VERDON GORGE

   Many millions of years ago the territory of modern France overlooking the sea, and at its bottom was formed of limestone deposits from the remains of animals. Later the African tectonic plate pushed European, former seabed rose up and became mountains. 

Travel to Netherlands. THE NATIONAL PARK "DWINGELDERVELD"

   In the spring the national Park "Dwingelderveld" turns into a huge purple-pink carpet. It blooms fragrant Heath — plant, loving the wet Heath, and that such areas are protected. Just 100 years ago, a huge Heather field met throughout Germany, Belgium and Holland, and today there remains very little.
Here you can meet the other plants that in other circumstances simply can not survive.

Travel to Netherlands. THE POLDER OF BEEMSTER

   The Polder (drained and cultivated the low-lying stretch of coast) of Bester emerged in the early XVII century as a result of artificial drainage of the lake. 

Travel to Netherlands. THE NATIONAL PARK "DE HOGE VELUWE"

   This is the largest Park of the Netherlands, a fantastic place with unique nature and swampy landscapes, coniferous forests, sand dunes. There is even a Museum. "De Hoge Veluwe" was founded in 1914 to a wealthy couple. 

Travel to Europe. NETHERLANDS

NATURAL WONDERS OF THE NETHERLANDS

History of the Netherlands is an ongoing struggle of man with nature. The inhabitants of this tiny state from century to century was reclaimed from the sea a piece of land to build the roads and grow gardens. Thus the country managed to increase by several tens of thousands of acres that lie mostly below sea level.

THE NATIONAL PARK "DWINGELDERVELD"

Travel to France. THE ISLAND OF CORSICA

   The island of Corsica located in the Mediterranean sea West of Italy and Southeast of France, is a real diamond, each face of which offers amazing natural beauty and wealth. Here there are tall pine forests, vineyards, fragrant shrubs, majestic hills, scenic bays of Porto and Girolata, nature reserve "Scandola" and rocky coves, the town Drunk. 

Travel to France. CANYON TROU DE FER

   In 1989 on the island of reunion in the Indian ocean near Madagascar and Mauritius was discovered amazingly beautiful canyon, called the Trou de fer, which means "iron hole". Due to the fact that this place for many years was protected from human influence, there remain a variety of flora and fauna, including endemic species.

Travel to France. MONT BLANC

   Mont Blanc (4810 m) is called the roof of Europe, as it is the highest peak of the Western part of the Old world. It is on the border of Italy and France and from afar sparkling snow-white peaks. No coincidence that the name "Mont Blanc" means "white mountain". 

Travel to France. LAGOONS OF NEW CALEDONIA

   Barrier reef of New Caledonia, public education, located in the Pacific ocean, is one of only three such natural structures in the world. The reef stretches for 1,500 km and surrounds the major Islands of the archipelago of New Caledonia Grande Terre (New Caledonia) and Ile-de-Rin, and several small plots of land. 

Travel to France. PONT D'ARC

   Pont d'arc is one of the most famous natural bridges in the world. Located in the South-East of France on the river ardèche 4 km from the town of Vallon-Pont-d'arc. Impressive he is not only beauty, but also the dimensions: height of 45 m and a width of about 60 m. the Bridge has become one of the symbols of the country — it is frequently found on postcards and in tourist guides.

Travel to France. THE VOLCANO PUY-DE-DOME

  Puy-de-dôme (1464 m) is a rather young volcano, which adorns the French Department. Despite the fact that it has not erupted for a very long time and is considered to be extinct, on its top and slopes of well-preserved traces of former powerful rampant natural disasters: the accumulation of lava whimsical shapes, and formed long-craters, and even volcanic ash, which is many thousands of years.
Puy-de-dome is a granite plateau, located at an altitude of about 1000 m above sea level.

Travel to France. CIRQUE DE MAFATE

   Cirque de Mafate — a godsend for lovers of Hiking. There is absolutely no roads, so to reach this wonderful place you can just walk. 

Travel to France. NATURE PARK "CAMARGUE".

   In the heyday of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire almost all the Mediterranean coast of Europe was covered with swamps. They have existed since ancient times and has remained intact until the XIX century, Then began a large-scale work on their drainage.

Travel to France. MOUNTAIN RANGES OF THE CÉVENNES AND CAUSSES.

This object area 302 319 hectares located in the South Central part of France.

Landscapes of the mountain ranges of the Cevennes and Causses rich in wide valleys, which reflect the close interaction of agricultural activities with nature. For centuries, the area prospered mountain grazing based on the seasonal hauls cattle for short distances.

Travel to Europe. FRANCE.

THE FRENCH WONDERS OF NATURE

   France — the birthplace of honey wine, because the local climate is favorable for growing grapes. And the impression of this country is very similar to the tasting of exclusive beverage. She lures and teases the Cote d'azur, a luxurious ski resorts and the "roof of Europe", which is located exactly on its territory.

THE ISLAND OF CORSICA

MONT BLANC

Travel to Italy. AEOLIAN ISLANDS

   The seven beautiful Islands of the Aeolian archipelago, which is located between the volcanoes Etna and Vesuvius, part of a huge 200-kilometer-long volcanic ridge. For example, can be traced to the unique processes of formation and destruction of Islands by volcanic activity. 

Travel to Italy. NATIONAL PARK "GRAN PARADISO"

   "Gran Paradiso" is the oldest national Park of Italy. 
   Back in the mid XIX century Victor Emmanuel II, the future monarch of Italy, noted that the number of mountain goats in his hunting area has drastically reduced. He declared forest reserves and forbade them to hunt everyone but himself. In the early twentieth century, his grandson, also Victor Emmanuel, conveyed these lands to state ownership, but with the condition that their territory is national Park.