The Czech Republic-Tips for the trips-Jeseníky – adrenaline
The highest mountains in the eastern part of the Czech Republic hide a number of surprises and ideal conditions for adrenaline sports. Visitors can ride in mini-cars, try skiing on grass, or skateboarding down ski slopes. Popular local entertainment is so-called tarzanning – on poles from which ladders, ropes, and trapeze bars variably hang, people climb, jump and repel. Olympic medallist, Aleš Valenta, built a site for acrobatic ski jumping into water in the town of ·títy. Visitors can also try all these sports provided they are equipped with safety gear. Jeseníky however is not just about adrenaline. It also features picturesque valleys among the foothills. The area has maintained a number of technical monuments, which are worth a visit. Here tourists will find water-powered mills, there a brick factory, and elsewhere and old mining house or a windmill
Hand-made paper from Velké Losiny
The area below Jeseníky Mountains boasts a rare skill of world renown – the production of handmade paper. The paper is of such quality that famous persons throughout the world order it for their own personal use. The paper is however also used for printing international agreements or as material for graphic artists, painters and illustrators. Visitors to the manufacturing site can see with their own eyes how the paper is made – they grind and they wet remains of linen rags, afterwards the liquid is drained in a sieve, then left to dry, it is later pressed and left to dry completely.
Don’t miss:
Praděd – at its peak, where the snow doesn’t melt until May, stands a TV tower, which has a lookout point at 70 metres above the mountain peak.Ramzová – in this adrenaline sport centre people ride on motorless mini-cars and large pushbikeson a special course, from which you can take the funicular to the top of Pradud and parachute off the mountain.Červenohorské sedlo – a sports centre and ideal starting point for hiking trips to the backbone of the mountains that divide Jeseníky into two exact parts.Jeseník – famous thanks to the world-renowned Priessnitz watertherapy spas.Osoblaha – on the route from Třemešná to Osoblaha, one of few preserved narrow-gauged trainsruns for the delight of tourists and the needs of local residents.
Šumperk – a town in the foothills, where the Catholic Inquisition was at its peak and where witch trials during the late 17th century led to the burning at the stake of thirty innocent women. Not far from here in Velké Losiny fifty-six suspected witches met the same fate.
