Soaring over Slovakia
When the former Czechoslovakia split at the end of 1992, Slovakia got the better part of the deal as far as mountains go. The Czech Republic has some very nice mountain ranges, but nothing on the scale of the Tatra mountains that form part of the border between Slovakia and Poland.
While I have never seen the Tatras at ground level, on August 19 of 2023, I took a sightseeing flight over them. The scale of the High Tatras reminded me in many ways of areas of the Rocky mountains in my native Canada.
The flight went from Vyškov na Moravě, in the Czech Republic, to the High Tatras and back. It passed over the Beskydy, Malá Fatra, High Tatra and Low Tatra ranges before returning to Vyškov.
Here’s a gallery of some of what we saw:
Beyond Prague 