RPA Travel - Jeseníky - Váš informační a cestovatelský portál po Jeseníkách
Welcome to JESENÍKY
Jeseníky is a commonly used name for a mountain region in the north-western Moravia and a western part of Silesia. It is a second highest mountain range in the Czech Republic and it covers an area of more than 3600 square kilometres. The highest mountain is called Praděd with its peak of 1.491 meters above the sea level. Water from streams and rivers is drained away from southern slopes by the river Morava to Danube and further to the Black sea; northern slopes are drained away by rivers and streams flowing to Kladská Nisa and Opava, then to Odra which runs into the Baltic Sea.
From a tourist point of view, Jeseníky is an almost ideal place for relaxation and active recreation because it offers nearly everything with an exception of a sea. This mountain region encompasses popular and highly exploited tourist paths and centres but also almost forgotten corners where one does not find signs of civilization. In summer, it is possible to hike through Jeseníky on foot or to discover it by bike following a dense web of marked tourist paths or biking tracks. Moreover, attractions such as mountain go-karts or bob-sleight trails offer lots of fun.
Winter time offers good conditions for all kinds of winter sports – Jeseníky Mountains are full of ski slopes and they are interwoven by cross-country skiing trails. Spring and autumn time asks for a relaxation and a breather in a heart of nature or warmth of spa houses and cosy restaurants. Also castles, view-towers or caves are very attractive. Tourist region Jeseníky is not only a second highest mountain range in the Czech Republic but it also includes picturesque Rychlebské Mountains that have not been discovered by tourists yet and a part of a Kralický Sněžník massif. Solitaires who do not love too dense concentration of people can go there or to Nízký Jeseník. They can also explore lonely romantic granite quarries (some of them are flooded and they offer a great bathing) in the territory of Žulový and Vápenná.
Those who do not mind a rush can go to a crest trail between Ramzovské sedlo and Skřítek saddle. Jeseníky holds also several primacies. For example, in Ramzová there is the smallest and the most highly situated fast train stop in Central Europe. Rejvíz is the most highly situated settlement in Silesia and the peak of a broadcaster on Praděd is the most highly situated place in the Czech Republic – it towers the peak of the highest Czech mountain Sněžka by 35 and a half meters.
The crests of Jeseníky are covered by mountain meadows that convert into dwarf-pine stand on the upper border of the forest. Rich and often unique flora and fauna of Jeseníky creates a paradise for nature lovers, their foothills are a dream of every mineralogist thanks to a presence of an almost hundred of minerals. The foothills on the north of Jeseníky massif descend into the Polish territory.
A large part of the locality is protected as a precious territory with a well-preserved nature and since 1969 it has been declared a “Protected landscape area of Jeseníky”.
