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Loch Lomond & the Trossachs

The 'bonnie banks' and 'bonnie braes' of Loch Lomond have long been Glasgow's rural retreat. The main tourist focus i...

Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri; www.eryri-npa.gov.uk ) was founded in 1951 (making it Wales’ first national park). Aro...

Straddling Tyrol, Salzburg and Carinthia, this national park is the largest in the Alps; a 1786-sq-km wilderness of 3000m peaks, alpine m...

As much of a draw as the mountains and the sea in Slovenia are two world-class but very different cave systems in the unique Karst area....

Bohinj, a larger and much less developed glacial lake 26km to the southwest of Bled, is a world apart. Triglav itself is visible from Bo...

With rumbling waterfalls, sheer gorges and dense forests, Slovenský Raj lives up to the name of 'Slovak Paradise'. A few easier...

Magnificent scenery ratchets up to stupendous in this national park (entry €3), where ice and water have carved a dramatic landscape fr...

Directly behind Kotor is Mt Lovćen (1749m), the black mountain that gave Crna Gora (Montenegro) its name ( crna / negro means 'black...

Mavrovo's ski resort is Macedonia's biggest, comprising 730 sq km of birch and pine forest, gorges, karst fields and waterfalls,...