On holiday explorations, we often try to capture all those unforgettable moments with our photographic lenses. But the truly astonishing scenes are brought by this year's winners of the best travel photos.
Destinations
Our largest ski center is also the most famous internationally, mainly thanks to the World Cup matches.
Who dares? A fantastic scary experience of the French Alps with the help of a new glass installation.
The Salzburger Sportwelt comprises eight holiday resorts: Flachau, Wagrain-Kleinarl, St. Johann-Alpendorf, Radstadt, Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Eben and Filzmoos. It represents the winter heart of the Skiamadé association, which with a total of 760 kilometers of ski slopes, 270 mountain and lift facilities and 25 ski and snowboard schools and more than 120 ski huts is considered to be the largest ski party in Austria.
Schladming is Styria's best-known ski resort, and in the season after the high-profile Alpine Skiing World Championships, Schladming is already preparing for the 2015 World Skiing and Freestyle Championships, the 2016 World Skiing Championships and the 2017 Special Olympics.
The most famous ski center in Austrian Carinthia is Bad Kleinkirchheim, where the big novelty of the season is that children up to the age of 12 can meander along more than 100 kilometers of ski slopes in Bad Kleinkirchheim and St. Oswald.
Photographer Sean Lynch transformed the simple landscape of Nepal into an out-of-this-world holiday dream using infrared film.
Salina Turda is a salt mine in Romania that has been turned into the largest museum of its kind in the world. It was written somewhere that even Jules Verne would be jealous.
A romantic night under the stars. With a crystal view of the beauty of the snowy North. In the warm embrace of a luxury igloo. The perfect winter fairy tale of Hotel Kakslauttanen.
These days, it is fitting to look at the warmth of the small towns that are hidden in the seductive Italy. Let the selection of the most picturesque take you to the world of ancient architecture, rugged landscapes, bays of bluish waters and the intoxicating scent of the Mediterranean.
Not only in name, Slovenians and Slovaks are similar in skiing habits. Slovenians experience skiing as a national sport, which is hard to say for Slovaks, but both of us much prefer going abroad to our home terrain, which does not mean that Slovakian ski centers are not worth a visit.
The ski center near Sarajevo is known to all of us who, as children or adults, held our breath at the success of Jure Frank and his skiing colleagues, when they achieved success at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo in 1984 and brought us the first Olympic medal in the former country.