MOUNTAIN VILLAGE BOROVÁ LADA
Borová Lada is a calm mountain village in the middle of high Šumava, about 900 meters above sea level, right next to Kvilda, Knížecí Pláně and other famous beautiful places, on the Teplá Vltava River, it is an ideal place for biking, hiking and cross-country skiing.
- Winter Season - Machine-prepared cross-country ski tracks are made right through Borová Lada,
you can use tens of kilometers to Zadov, Kvilda, Horská Kvilda, Zhůří, Filipova Huť, Modrava and more, as much as
you wish and can handle. The nearest downhill slopes are located in Nové Hutě about 5 km from us (for beginners)
or 11 km from us in Zadov / Churáňov (real ones).
- Summer Season - You can cover on bike all the Šumava from Lipno to Železná Ruda, depending only on your
good shape and preferences. Except mountain bikes you can use road bikes as well, road surfaces are mostly of quite
a good quality. On the near Bučina is a hiking and biking check point to Germany, the regular road check point is
in Strážné. Even by walk you can easily reach from us some of the most beautiful parts of Šumava – Knížecí Pláně,
Bučina, Kvilda, spring of Vltava River, former villages Stodůlky and Světlé Hory, etc.
- Local Services - Grocery shop selling all you can normally need – food, drinks, newspapers,
drugstore goods, etc., during summer and winter seasons it is open daily, including weekends. Two restaurants
directly in the village. The shop and restaurants are placed just few steps from our apartments. The town Vimperk
is about 13 km from us, any other services including supermarkets are located there.
- Wider Surroundings – You can find a lot of truly attractive historical and natural places of
interest in a wider surroundings: the medieval castles Kašperk, Velhartice, Rábí, Vimperk, historical towns
Prachatice and Český Krumlov, the largest Czech dam Lipno and others.
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