Also, the home can be lovely: this year, a lot of Germans are expected to spend their summer holidays in their own country. In the light of a smoldering pandemic, but rather not in the bustling cities and event halls, but away from the crowds.

And on the domestic horizon, there is now a glimmer of hope: holidays in Germany possible. So: Mecklenburg instead of Mallorca - we make the Best of it. Here are a couple of serious Alternatives to get to distant destinations and countries. Thick skin is, unfortunately, still a Must, because the temperature of the bath in this country is, well, a little more refreshing than the Mediterranean sea.

chalk cliffs on Rügen, instead of White Cliffs of Dover

The white cliffs of Dover (United Kingdom) protrude at the narrowest point of the English channel as a fortress in the direction of continental Europe. Such snow-white, the impressive colossi can also be found in Germany, see: chalk formation in the Jasmund national Park on Rügen. 118 Meter measures the highest cliff in to the abyss.

"The Chalk cliffs in the Jasmund national Park is the largest and most significant geological information in Northern Germany. Because it represents a section through 70 million years of earth history. Small and large Bank crashes, there is always a stir", says the national Park with the world heritage site. Casper David Friedrich was inspired, in 1850, here is one of the most famous works of art of the romantic era.

Under the Hashtag #virtualruegality the tourism Agency of the island of Rügen is already in the mood to travel. Images show the pure nature in the Corona-crisis, including the famous chalk cliffs at dawn. The beaches of Rügen deserted, the water a deep blue. Small minus point: The Baltic sea is never really warm, even in August the temperatures average under 20 degrees. Booking.com (display)

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Lüneburger Heide: Heide flower Provence

Reuters/Philipp Schulze/dpa/dpa-tmn The famous purple Heather is immersed in the Lüneburger Heide every year in the summer in a bright sea of colour.

The famous purple herb that appears annually from August to September, the lüneburg Heath in a fantastic bright colour of the sea. This looks to be the lavender fields in Provence, to Confuse similar. In the Heath landscape, however, is unique: sheep care for the landscape. Keep the shoots are about 15 inches short, so they stay dense and beautiful bloom. The famous Heidschnucken can: you have to destroy the cobwebs, so not able to catch the bees in it.

animal friends of all kinds come, in the lüneburg Heath on your costs. More recently, the sheep from the goats will be supported. The woody plants such as birch and pine keep it in check. Not to forget the Dülmener wild horses, there is also landscape maintenance. A little bit of Safari is with. Reuters/Philipp Schulze/dpa/dpa-tmn of The treetop path in the Luneburg Heath wildlife Park, according to the Park, the highest such facility in the North of Germany. In need of a holiday? Now save with coupons Expedia

holidays in Germany:, Switzerland, and their small Relatives

Hiking in Switzerland - it's not only the confederates, but also, for example, in Saxony, in Brandenburg, Germany, francs, or Schleswig-Holstein. Admittedly, you visit Switzerland, but one of their small Relatives: Saxon Switzerland, Franconian Switzerland, the Märkische Switzerland or Holstein Switzerland. Many of the countless Swiss got their nickname because they reminded once Federal visitors to your home.

dpa/Arno Burgi/dpa-Central image/dpa-tmn Bastei bridge in the Saxon Switzerland national Park: Who's here on vacation, Hiking, walking and Biking.

The smallest common denominator of the Swiss in Germany is probably in the broadest sense, a beautiful nature. The vacationers can go Hiking, walking and Cycling. A bit hilly it should be. "Switzerland is positioned as a country: There are mountains," says Martin Lohmann, Director of the Institute for tourism and recreational research in Northern Europe. "And if you are looking for a comparison, take something that everyone understands." High up in the mountains or not.

Saale-Unstrut in Tuscany around the corner

dpa/Jan Woitas/dpa-Central image/dpa-tmn The wine-growing region Saale-Unstrut is sometimes called the "Tuscany of the North".

Is a more of a sense of Mediterranean Flair, is perhaps a German variant of the Tuscany is the destination of choice. There are several: in addition to the Uckermark in Brandenburg is also the wine growing region of Saale-Unstrut in Saxony is praised-Anhalt as the "Tuscany of the North".

you've come up with this description but not so the tourism Agency of Saxony-Anhalt. This has already been said of the artist Max Klinger more than 100 years ago the area around Naumburg, in the extreme South-East of the Federal lands.

The former Duchies of Saxony-Weissenfels, Saxony-Merseburg and Saxony-Zeitz witnesses with its majestic Baroque palaces of a sumptuous past. Cycling and Hiking here, but also Canoeing in one of the many lakes or rivers is possible.

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Hesse: Where the forest is still lonely

is The re-discovery of the forest as a recreation area also Hesse invites. The Rhine river hard woods in the North of the country attracts as one of the most isolated forest regions in Germany. An idyllic small river, there are also: the Holzape. Also an attraction in the North of Hesse: In the reinhardswald forest, the sleeping beauty castle of Sababurg by the brothers Grimm is.

In the Hoher Vogelsberg nature Park, visitors will find a quaint, wild and original nature. As one of the most beautiful valleys, where it is touted to be the upper Niddertal.

Kassel Marketing GmbH | photographer: Patrick Baensch, About 20 kilometers from Kassel, the fairy-tale castle Sababurg, the brothers Grimm. Each week provides you FOCUS Online with the most important news from the Department trip. Here you can subscribe to the Newsletter.

mecklenburgische seenplatte: Feeling as in Canada

The Mecklenburg lakes, everyone knows, but why not a coastal moor to get to know? This is East of Graal-Müritz in Large Ribnitz Moor. A nine kilometre-long excursion path with information panels leads through the countryside.

Should it be the lakes, recommends that the tourism Association of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Ivenacker oaks. They are around 1000 years old and are among the oldest trees in Germany. And a little bit of the huge Mecklenburg lakes landscape reminds to the great lakes in North America.

Reuters/Thomas Grundner/tourism Association of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania/dpa-tmn Safaris with a solar catamaran through the river valley to moor in the Peene river are part of the program of the moor week in the Mecklenburg Switzerland.

Weser mountain country: a visit with the wild horses

With an "oasis in the everyday life", is the tourist Central of the Paderborner Land, when it comes to the moss Heath. The nature conservation area in the Senne in Westphalia, rather, is even less known. It is the border to lower Saxony is located in the Region of the Teutoburg forest, not far, there is also the Ems springs. The special Highlight of the moss-Heath, however, has Hooves - the oldest horse breed in Germany, the Senner lives of wild horses.

the nature Park Thuringian slate mountains: the river of romance are pure in Thuringia

dpa/Jan-Peter Kasper, especially campsites by the water are popular.

Who is like the water of the nature Park Thuringian should like schiefergebirge - Obere Saale. Along the Saale river, the reservoirs and ridges of nature can be enjoyed here. The Hohenwarte-reservoir, with its 412 meters wide wall, is the fourth largest in Germany. In the woods animals such as salamanders, Rauhfußkauz and black stork, for example.

Uckermark in Brandenburg: Between the Book and the flood plains of

friends of the German forest in the Uckermark for your pleasure. The idyllic Buchenwald Grumsin in the Schorfheide-Chorin biosphere reserve is a Unesco world heritage site. A protected flood plain has to offer in Brandenburg, the Lower Oder valley national Park to. There are many water bird species are starting to show. dpa/Steffen Lehmann/TMB photo archive, a roof of leaves: In a beech forest of Grumsin only about ten percent of the sun's light to come on the ground.

Schleswig-Holstein: a landscape like a painting

if you want to see kingfishers, sea eagles and cranes, is in the nature Park lauenburgische seen properly. The oldest nature Park in Schleswig-Holstein is located in the South of Lübeck and East of Hamburg and offers a glacial hills, lakes, forests, meadows and fields - a place of longing for nature lovers. Each week provides you FOCUS Online with the most important news from the Department trip. Here you can subscribe to the Newsletter.

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Date Of Update: 22 May 2020, 12:28