Trekking from Ushguli to Mestia
Four days trekking in Svaneti (Greater Caucasus, Georgia)
Year: 2015
Trekking in Tusheti
Villages, towers, shrines in a remote mountain region in the High Caucasus (Georgia)
Basalt columns near Garni, Armenia
“Symphony of Stones”: Spectacular but relatively unknown basalt columns in Azad Canyon
The Caldera of Nemrut Dagi
Volcano with obsidian lava and lakes in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey
Meke Gölü
Spectacular hypersaline crater lake (maar) with a cinder cone in the centre (Central Anatolia, Turkey)
Tuz Gölü
Shallow water as far as the eye can see and a reddish colour due to halobacteria — the Great Salt Lake in Central Anatolia (Turkey)
Belogradtschik
Sandstone rocks in Bulgaria
Pobiti Kamani near Varna
The “Stone Forest” in Bulgaria
Skopje
Kitschy “nation building” in the capital of North Macedonia
Ohrid
Ancient churches and a large lake in North Macedonia
Albania
White houses, mini-bunkers and a karst spring
Lake Skardar
The largest lake in the Balkans (Montenegro, Albania)
Komovi
Hike in the Mountains of Montenegro
Sveti Stefan
Once a romantic fishing village in Montenegro
Bay of Kotor
The “Fjord” of the Balkans in Montenegro: Hikes and Old Towns
Dubrovnik
Old city with thick walls between mountains and Adriatic Sea (Croatia)
Durmitor
Mountains in Montenegro
Uvac Gorge
Deeply incised meanders of the Uvac in a rarely visited reserve in Serbia
Mostar and Sarajevo
Travelling Bosnia and Herzegovina
Modro Jezero (Blue Lake) and Crveno Jezero (Red Lake)
Large sinkholes near Imotski in Croatia
Krka, Trogir, and Split
Waterfalls and Antiquity in Croatia
Velebit
Karstified mountains in Croatia
Plitvice Lakes
Karst landscape with lakes and waterfalls in Croatia
Bijele Stijene
Bizarre karst formation in Croatia
Istria
Ancient towns, Venetian churches and Roman ruins on the Adriatic coast of the peninsula (Slovenia, Croatia)
Slovenian Karst
Caves, sinkholes, poljes — the term karst derives from the uplands of the same name in Slovenia