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Now we change to follow another river - The Moldau/Vltava and a cycle route with the same name, but also still signed as Nat. Route 2. Passing Kralupy and Roztoky and going on to the capital. Praha is a big experience and you probably have to stay here some days at least to have time enough to walk in the sunset on the Karluv bridge. But take care while cycling in Praha. There are too many cars and too few cycle tracks.
Still we follow the Labe river through the Central Bohemian Highlands with views to many castles, like in Pansig Litomerice and Roudnice. Melnik is an old wine town with traditional cosy wine bars, wine Museum and wine fields around the town. The central old township lies high over the merging rivers Labe and Vltava. Inside you find caracteristic arcades and a renaissance castle and a gothic cathedral.
In Decin the route switched to the other (eastern) side of the river. Passing villages like Téchlovice and Svadov and continues up to Velké Brezno (castle) and Ústi Nad Labem cutting it´s way through the sandstone mountains and basalt rocks and former submarine volcanoes.
The route continues along the river Elbe (in Czech Rep. Labe) on the west side. The town Dolni Zleb is the lowest place in the country (ca 300 m above sea level). The river Labe has cut itself through a dramatic landscape of sandstones with the largest sandstone gate in Europe: Pravcická Gate - a landmark for the national park, Bohemian Switzerland National Park. Reaching Decin you find a beautiful castle and the Pastyrska Rock with an elevator inside.
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