The turquoise water
The chalk reflects light and turns the sea an un-Baltic colour.
Rüdiger Stehn from Kiel, Deutschland — CC BY-SA 2.0 · News Oresund — CC BY 2.0 · News Oresund — CC BY 2.0 · News Oresund — CC BY 2.0
Denmark is a flat country; its highest natural point is only 171 metres. So **Møns Klint** surprises even Danes: a wall of white chalk rising **128 metres** straight out of the Baltic and running about six kilometres. The chalk itself is a marine graveyard **seventy million years** old — the microscopic skeletons of sea creatures that settled on the floor of a warm Cretaceous sea, later pushed up and their layers overturned by glaciers in the last ice age. The visual effect is unexpected. The chalk reflects light into the water, so the sea below the cliff turns a **turquoise** closer to the Mediterranean than the Baltic. From the top a **500-step stair** descends to the beach. The beach is shingle and full of fossils — belemnites and fossilised sea urchins — that people find among the stones. Note: **the cliff genuinely collapses**, and regularly; stay on the paths and do not stand directly beneath the face. The area's sky is a protected **dark-sky reserve**, and among the best stargazing sites in Denmark.
The chalk reflects light and turns the sea an un-Baltic colour.
Belemnites and fossil sea urchins among the shingle, found by visitors.
Descending from the cliff edge to the shingle beach below.
Island of Møn, about 130 km south of Copenhagen
**Realistically by car**: about 130 km and two hours each way, motorway then country roads. Public transport is possible but punishing — a train to Vordingborg, a bus to Stege, then a seasonal bus to the cliff, roughly three and a half hours, and it does not run all year. So plan a full day with a hire car, and ideally add the village of **Stege** and the **medieval wall-painted churches of Møn** to the same trip. ⚠ In winter daylight is very short and the stair sometimes closes for ice.
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