White sand
A small desert.
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Łącka Dune is the best-known moving sand dune in Słowiński National Park on the Baltic coast of northern Poland, near the town of Łeba, about 90 km west of Gdańsk in a straight line. The park was created in 1967 and now covers about 186 square kilometres, including 32.5 km of coastline. UNESCO named it a biosphere reserve in 1977. It is named after the Slovincians, a people who lived in this marshy area, and an open-air museum of their way of life stands in the village of Kluki. The dunes move several metres a year with the wind, burying the forest in front of them and uncovering dead tree trunks behind. The dune rises about 40 metres above the sea, and its fine white sand stretches like a small desert between Lake Łebsko and the sea. Bare branches of dead trees poke out of the sand, with pine forest and a long beach on either side. Visitors come from Łeba on foot, by bicycle or in small electric carts in season, then walk about 2 km to the dune. You can go down from the dune to the beach and walk back along the sand.
A small desert.
Poking out of the sand.
Long, on the Baltic.
Słowiński National Park, near Łeba, Baltic coast, Poland
From Łeba on foot, by bike or electric cart.
May to September.