So it’s a pretty bold statement to call someplace paradise, right. Well Verča and I were in the area for the long week-end (May 8), so we thought we should check it out (of course Verča has been there a number of times, being paradise and only 90 minutes from Prague, but not me!) I mean, come on; we had a week-end of wet biking. Of course it would be sunny in paradise. Well it wasn’t exactly sunny, but it wasn’t raining. And that was a big improvement!

We parked in a little town called Besedice just off of our way back to Prague and hiked a short few km loop circling along the top of the ridge with a nice view back down into Vranov. There are some cool rock formations there. Kinda like a cross between the outcroppings at Annapolis Rocks, the ridges in Seneca Rocks, and the hoo doos in southern Utah. There are so many cool outcroppings and this being in a national park the Czechs had built a series of steps cut into the stone and bridges and stairs from one rock to another in what they call rocktowns. It’s kinda strange to see the rocks built up so much on what is essentially a trail that was very minimally marked and literally started up some person’s dirt driveway. It is by all means very cool though, with even a bit if the red and tan sandstone peeking through the moss and conifer tree cover in this very humid area. Very cool. Lots of fun stairs and catwalks and little caves and passageways to navigate through.I’m sure we’ll be back with sunny warmer weather. I think we were only on the north end of this so called paradise, and some worldly friends here keep telling me how much different this place is than anywhere else they have traveled. So I’m psyched to see more of it!