This beautiful sight dates back tens of million years, and is so precious that visitors are no longer allowed to visit it.

It's the home of the Saxon Switzerland national park, which protects more than 36,000 hectares of the Elbe sandstone mountains, created by the river Elbe over 100m years ago. It offers protection ...

Known as the Elba Sandstone Mountains, they are best accessed by ... stretches southeast toward Prague on the north side of the Elbe before crossing over and bringing hikers back along the ...

Today, a route they inspired — the Malerweg, German for “painters’ way” — will take you more than 110 kilometres through the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, in Saxon Switzerland National Park.

Here, for instance, lie the Elbe Sandstone Mountains – peaks that rise to about 723 metres, and which have been sculpted by wind, rain and ice into "fantastical forms". With its dense forests ...