Dear Steemit friends and followers,
Welcome to another episode of my Travel Tip edition. Despite its small size of just 79,000 sq km (30,500 sq mi), the Czech Republic boasts of four beautiful national parks, the largest one of which being the Sumava National Park.
Located in the South Bohemian region of the Czech Republic, along the border with Germany, the Sumava National Park received the status of a national park in 1991. One year earlier, in 1990, it was also proclaimed a protected biosphere reserve of UNESCO.
Source: Shutterstock, author: Vaclav Volrab
Established to conserve and protect the biodiversity and fragile ecosystems of the area, the Sumava National Park is also home to the most extensive continuous forest in Central Europe, which earned the park the nickname “Green Heart of Europe”.
Other natural features commonly found in the Sumava National Park are large peat bogs, crystal-clear glacial lakes and remnants of primeral forests.
Source: Shutterstock, author: Kuttelvaserova Stuchelova
There are many great hiking trails in the park, making it a very popular place among tourists, hikers and nature lovers from the Czech Republic as well as other countries (most notably Germany and Austria).
Source: Shutterstock, author: Vaclav Volrab
If you decide to explore the Sumava National Park on your next visit to the Czech Repubic, make sure to take some nice photos there and submit them in my daily Prague/Czech Republic photo challenge, I am sure they will be highly appreciated by our Steemit community of photographers :)
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