About this route
Route overview
The first UNESCO Global Geopark of the Czech Republic in one nature day with a private chauffeur — Cesky Raj (Bohemia Paradise), a 181 km2 Landscape Park inscribed on the UNESCO Global Geoparks list in 2005, where sandstone rocks shaped over 100 million years create a fairytale landscape. Given the nature of the tour (4 locations plus walks) we recommend the Mercedes V-Class with space for backpacks and change of shoes. Standard plan: 9:00 hotel pickup in Prague, 10:30 arrival in Cesky Raj (90 km via D10 motorway, about 1 h 30). Park tour 4 h with four key stops: TROSKY CASTLE 10:30-11:30 — Gothic ruins of a 14th-century castle built on two basalt rock towers "Panna" (57 m high) and "Baba" (47 m), the icon of Cesky Raj and the symbol of the region, climb both towers up 145 steel steps with a 360-degree panorama of the whole Park (on a clear day the Karkonosze and Stolowe mountains). 11:30 transfer 10 km to PRACHOV ROCKS 12:00-13:00 — the most famous rock town of Cesky Raj, 16th-century sandstone formations shaped by water and wind, a labyrinth of canyons 1-3 m wide and 25-30 m high, a circular trail of 1 h with 8 viewpoints (Tocovice, Stara Cesta, Ceska, Holzworth, Map of the Republic — a natural relief map of the Czech lands). 13:00 transfer 8 km to an inn in Sobotka. 14:00 lunch at U Plavacka inn — Czech regional cuisine (svickova, vepro-knedlo-zelo, local Svijany beer, bramboraky potato pancakes). 15:00 transfer 5 km to KOST CASTLE 15:30-16:30 — the best preserved Gothic castle in the Czech Republic (from the 14th century), never conquered, on a sandstone rock spur, a collection of Gothic furniture and weapons from the 14th-17th centuries, a medieval kitchen with the original bread oven. 16:30 transfer 12 km to HRUBA SKALA 17:00 — a Renaissance palace on a rock spur above the valley from 1380, rebuilt in neo-Renaissance style in 1858, now a hotel, a panorama from the terrace of 100 km of the Jizera Valley. 17:30 return to Prague (90 km via D10 motorway, about 1 h 30). EUR 580 Mercedes V-Class. Service runs 24/7 with flight tracking if pickup is at PRG.