Travel Guide Les Sumava

The existence of the Iron Curtain during the forty years of communism has had a very contradictory effect: the military territories in border regions have made it possible to protect nature, particularly in the area of wild urbanization and tourism, but have also, unfortunately, been responsible for real ecological disasters (water pollution pollution, almost systematic clearing, etc.). In the Šumava, only the beneficial aspects seem to have played! The villages have little interest, because they were often destroyed after expatriation of the Sudeten Germans, but the nature is superb, between large pine forests, the jungle of Mount Boubín, glacial lakes, bogs and rare flora, valleys and clear streams, granite rocks or still altitude pastures. The National Park of Šumava (since 1991) has a nature reserve: nature defence and renewal, animal protection and landscape conservation. Velky Autoatlas is a valuable and helpful information resource for touring the region. We have selected a few hiking trails, marked, which deserve to be moved.