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Plitvice Lakes National Park
Croatia
Sixteen terraced lakes joined by waterfalls and wooden boardwalks in a forested valley.
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Calanques National Park
Marseille, France
White limestone creeks with turquoise water between Marseille and Cassis.
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Cinque Terre National Park
Vernazza, Italy
Five clifftop fishing villages linked by trails, trains and boats.
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Danube Delta
Romania
A huge wetland of reeds, channels and birds where the Danube meets the Black Sea.
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Lake District National Park
United Kingdom
England's most visited national park, with lakes, fells and literary history, a UNESCO site.
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Mount Teide
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
A volcano and Spain's highest peak, rising from a lunar-like landscape of lava fields.
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Pamukkale and Hierapolis
Pamukkale, Turkey
White travertine terraces and thermal pools beside an ancient spa city.
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Snowdonia National Park
Betws-y-Coed, United Kingdom
A national park of peaks, lakes, forest and slate valleys in north Wales.
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Curonian Spit
Nida, Lithuania
A narrow sand peninsula of dunes, pine forest and fishing villages between the Baltic and a lagoon.
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Durmitor National Park
Zabljak, Montenegro
A wild mountain park of limestone peaks, glacial lakes and the deep Tara canyon.
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Krka National Park
Sibenik, Croatia
A series of cascading waterfalls and pools along the Krka river, with boardwalk trails through reeds and woods...
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Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park
Spain
A Pyrenean national park of steep canyons, waterfalls and limestone peaks.
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Picos de Europa
Spain
A rugged limestone mountain range plunging toward the sea in northern Spain, with deep gorges and hiking trail...
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Samaria Gorge
Chania, Greece
One of Europe's famous hiking gorges, a long walk through cliffs to the sea.
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Theth
Albania
A remote mountain valley in the Albanian Alps with stone guesthouses, waterfalls and trails.
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Thingvellir National Park
Reykjavík, Iceland
A rift valley where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates pull apart, and the site of Iceland's firs...
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Abisko National Park
Kiruna, Sweden
An Arctic national park with mountain trails, a deep gorge and one of the best northern lights viewing spots i...
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Bohemian Switzerland and Pravcicka Gate
Czechia
A giant natural sandstone arch in a park of rock towers and gorges.
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Cairngorms National Park
Inverness, United Kingdom
A large mountain national park with forests, lochs, wildlife and Britain's highest plateau.
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Dartmoor National Park
United Kingdom
Wild moorland with granite tors, ponies and Bronze Age remains in Devon.
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Donana National Park
Spain
A vast wetland of marshes, dunes and forests in Andalusia, vital for migrating birds.
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Gauja National Park
Sigulda, Latvia
Latvia's oldest and largest national park, with sandstone cliffs, caves, castles and forest trails along a win...
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Hoge Veluwe National Park
Netherlands
A large park of heath, forest and dunes with free white bikes and the Kroller-Muller Museum.