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:
As this post is mainly a photographic gallery and covers a large geographic area, I will not add the usual links that I do on most of my articles.
If you type “Sightseeing flights over the Tatras” in your browser searchbox, you’ll find many companies offering such flights from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia.
Important Note
I will end this article with the caveat that this sort of trip is best left for people who are living long term in one of the three countries mentioned in the paragraph above.
This is because of potential delays and reschedulings of flights due to unfavourable weather conditions or other factors beyond the control of the company offering the flight.
In the case of my flight, there were many reschedulings due to weather and the flight took place nearly a year after the initially scheduled date.
Beyond Prague 