The red cliff
Coloured sand and clay.
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The Red Cliff is a sand cliff on the west coast of Sylt, Germany's northernmost island, near the village of Kampen, about 5 km north of Westerland and 190 km northwest of Hamburg in a straight line. Sylt is the largest of the North Frisian Islands and is known for its resorts, including Westerland, Kampen and Wenningstedt, and for its sandy beach about 40 km long on the North Sea. A rail causeway carrying car trains links it to the mainland. A nature reserve protects the Red Cliff and its dunes, and nearby stands a small red-brick beacon with a green dome. The cliff rises in red and orange layers of sand and clay above a wide white beach, lined in summer with the hooded wicker beach chairs typical of northern Germany. Dunes of marram grass and heather top the cliff, and the grey-blue North Sea stretches to the horizon. Visitors walk a boardwalk over the dunes to a viewpoint on the cliff top, or take the steps down to the beach. Sunset is the best time; trains run from Hamburg to Westerland, with buses on to Kampen.
Coloured sand and clay.
Hooded wicker seats.
A green dome.
Kampen, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
By train from Hamburg over the causeway.
May to September.