Burial mounds, silence and a lot of space – hiking Germany’s Geestweg

Hiking · DE · 210 km · 9 stages

The 200-kilometre (124 mi) long Geestweg trail runs between the Ems and Weser rivers from Meppen to the Hanseatic city of Bremen. The name of the trail says it all: Geest are dry and barren landforms that were formed by ice-age glaciers in north-west Germany. The landscape is characterised by sa

by Zoe von Rambling Rocks