Torrent de Pareis/Mallorca

It has now been 3 years since we left home to go around the world for almost 5 months. Back to every-day-life all we get of an autumn-break is a week, so we made evrey day count!
We went to Mallorca with SAS via Copenhagen. We stayed in the South of the island in the beautiful town of Colonia San Jodi. There are beautiful beaches in every direction. Of these Es Trenc is best known.
This post, however, is about a trip we took to the mountains in the North of the island.

We followed the windy and partly very narrow road "Sa Cobra". Stunning!

A path led along the coast and through a cave to a (not altogether) dry riverbed.

We had a snack by the sea before we went deeper and deeper into the canyon in the background.

The rock formations were fascinating.

The canyon became more and more narrow...

 

...and more and more climbing was involved. (Not quite as advanced as in the last picture, though. Here Lea is attempting to climb up the vertical canyon walls.)

Dovre mountains/Norway

After we had traveled in Germany last year to show the kids our home country, we decided to stay in Norway this year to show them more of their home country.
The first stop was the Dovre mountains, but even though the kids had been there five years ago none of them remembered much...
Oppdal is where most people stay in cabins, campsites, hostels or at the Skifer Hotel. Oppdal has an indoor pool, bowling, a shopping center, restaurants and cafes and Opplev Oppdal offers rafting, juving, a zip line ... - but we were not after all that, so we went on to Kongsvold. They offer rooms as well as traditional food and will organize guided tours to see muskox.

Coming from Oppdal on the E6 there is parking right past Kongsvold fjellstue on the left hand side of the road. Across from there a path takes you into "muskox country". If you are lucky you meet one (or several) after only minutes of walking - or even see them when driving by on the road. We met a couple who told us they met muskoxen an hours walk away and so we decided to turn around and visit the botanical mountain garden instead. It is right above the parking strip and is a collection of all the plants of the area, offering the Latin, Norwegian and German names.

 

The view from the botanical garden, with Kongsvold fjellstue in the background.

We drove on a little further along the E6 to Hjerkinn. Here you follow the sings for the viewpoint "Snøhetta". From a spacious parking lot you walk or cycle up the mountains along a wide path for about 30 - 45min. . Stone slaps take you through time from the first settlements till today.

At the end of the path you get to this amazing building. It is open to everyone and offers unique architecture, benches, a floating fireplace and an amazing view over the mountains, especially Snøhetta.