Day 8 Around the Jasmund Region (far North).Woke up this morning to thundering rain in contrast to the clear blue skies of yesterday.!
Had planned on climbing the nearby light house in Rostock, a very popular tourist destination, however decided instead to drive East and North into the Jasmund Region and the National Park. This is an area, along with a number of others, set aside after re-unification in an effort to allow nature to take over and return some wildness to the forested area's. To an Australian eye the forest we drove though is very pretty but regimented and obvious from the notice boards in the park it is seen the same locally and they are trying to create some truly wild area's.
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| Chalk cliffs of the Jasmund National Park |
We had considered
visiting the chalk cliffs however you had to be on a coach tour or take the shuttle bus and we didn't really have time for this.
Our trip took us through some very old villages with narrow cobbled roads and houses built right on the street, sometimes with barely enough room for two cars to pass then meeting a bus on a corner really tested Maritta's nerves when we got very close to the adjacent building.
Had another trip on an "unlimited" A road, got up to 160 km/hrs this time but still had cars go past at a great rate. This speed does galvanise your concentration when you have a truck doing 90 in your lane and someone doing whatever speed (~200 km/hr) in the lane you want to use.
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| Looking out on the Ost Sea near Lunde in the Jasmund Region |
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