Glacial lakes
Such as Černé jezero, formed in the ice age beneath high cliffs.
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Its nearest edge is about fifty kilometres west, and a car is the practical way, since distances inside the park are large and buses are seasonal. Pick one area — a lake, a bog trail, or the Vltava source — rather than the park. A full day for one area.
May to October for walking, with peak greenery in June and July and autumn colour in late September and October. Winter is good for cross-country skiing but many trails close under snow and the mountain roads get difficult. The weather is changeable in every season — take a rain layer whatever the sky looks like.
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The largest national park in the Czech Republic, on the German and Austrian border, covering some six hundred and eighty square kilometres of forest, bog and glacial lakes. The region's history explains its condition: this was the sealed border zone under communism — a forbidden strip nobody could enter, from which villages were cleared and erased. Forty years of enforced isolation protected the forest from development and tourism, so when it opened after 1989 it was among the most ecologically intact areas in central Europe. It was declared a national park in 1991. With its German counterpart, the Bavarian Forest, the two form the largest continuous protected forest in central Europe. Among its destinations are glacial lakes such as Černé jezero, peat bogs on timber walkways, and the source of the Vltava, the river that runs down to Prague. Walking, cycling and cross-country skiing trails are extensive and numbered. It is open and free, though some core zones are closed for protection.
Such as Černé jezero, formed in the ice age beneath high cliffs.
The river that runs from here to Prague begins in this forest's bogs.
The zone was forcibly cleared under communism, and some sites carry markers of it.
South-west Bohemia on the German and Austrian border