I had a few days off in the last week of June, so I made use of my regained freedom to travel for visiting Slovakia and the Slovak Paradise (Slovenský raj) for the second time in this year.
Admittedly, my first blog-article about the Slovak Paradise cannot serve as a somewhat useful account of the national park, since I marched only through a small part in the east during February as I encountered plenty of snow, but no other hikers.
This article tries to bridge this gap …
The second-largest city in Slovakia, Košice, has been on my must-see list for quite a while, yet this blog-post is not going to be as comprehensive as the other articles about Slovakia on this website.
It will be a kind of extension to my sabbatical site and to the previously published part 5 (Slovak Paradise).
Though just about half the size of the capital Bratislava, Košice is the undisputed nucleus of Eastern Slovakia. The city is very close to the …
Winter fades gradually into spring, the days get longer and I am once more in my second home Slovakia.
This time I visited the Slovak Paradise and Košice (see part 6) in eastern Slovakia.
The Slovak Paradise (Slovenský raj) is a jagged limestone plateau without a dominating mountain ridge.
The national park, the northern edge located around ten kilometers southwards of Poprad-Tatry (and thus not far off from the High Tatras) and the southern border touching the town Dobšiná, stretches over a …
