Saturday, April 30, 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011

Sächsische Schweiz, Saxon Switzerland

View from the Bastei
View from the Bastei to the river Elbe and the city Rathen
The Sächsische Schweiz is located near Dresden in Saxony, Germany, characterized by sandstone rocks. It is a mountainous national park and a climbing area. The border to the Czech Republik is very near and the Bohemian Switzerland together with the Saxon Switzerland are the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. Only in the Saxon Switzerland you can see more than 1000 rock towers.

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Fossilized shells

Near the place where I live you can see these stones. The fossilized shells tell us that here was an ocean very long agao. Now the seaside is about 200 km away from this place.
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