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After our hiking in the High Coast area, we decided to travel south to hike a very beautiful part of the Skåneleden: The Österlenleden from Brösarp to Ystad, southeast of Skåne. This was a really good decision because we met very beautiful late summer weather and we had the white sandy beaches almost to ourselves. The trail follows mostly the coastline of the baltic sea and crosses picturesque villages like Kivik, Simrishamn and Kåseberga as well as the small Stenshuvud nationalpark. Our route ended in the beautiful town of Ystad, which is famous for the Wallander criminal novels from Henning Mankell. For more information you can visit the homepage of the SL4 Österlen (skaneleden.se).
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After our stay in Switzerland for the COVID-19 vaccination, we travelled to Sweden to hike the High Coast Trail. I didn't have the laptop with me because we travelled with ultra lightweight gear. That’s why I didn’t update this blog during our stay. But now, we are back in Switzerland again and I am able to write about our experiences. The High Coast Trail The High Coast area is located at the coast of the Baltic Sea and is an UNESCO World Heritage site, featuring the highest coastline in the world at approximately 286 metres above sea level. Due to a geological process called post-glacial land uplift – occurring since the most recent ice age – the land continues to rise at a rate of approximately 8 millimetres per year. The 130 km long High Coast Trail goes through the entire world heritage site from Hornöberget in the south to Örnsköldsvik in the north and crosses the nationalpark Skuleskogen. The trail offers a unique mix of coastal landscape, forests with rich flora and fauna, rocky shorelines, astonishing viewpoints and long sandy beaches. For more informations about the area and the trail you can visit Hike The High Coast Trail through the world heritage site | Höga Kusten (hogakusten.com). To expand our trail, we added some sections of the Världarvsleden in the same region. In total, we hiked more than 200 km in this area. It was a very nice hike, not least due to the generally dry weather we met ;-). We can really recommend visiting the High Coast. |
