Šumava National Park and Landscape Protected Area (CZECH: Národní park a chráněná krajinná oblast Šumava, usually shortened as NP a CHKO Šumava) are a National Park and a Landscape Protected Area in the Liberec and South Bohemian Regions of the Czech Republic along the border with with Germany (where a smaller Bayerischer National Park lies) and Austria. They protect little inhabited area of the mountain range of the same name, the Šumava.The Šumava Range is covered by the most extensive forest in Central Europe, whose natural composition was, however, changed and today spruce plantations prevail in most of the area. In many places non-native spruce varietes were planted. Numerous large plateaux with raised peat bogs, glacial lakes and remnants of primeval forests (e.g. Boubín) complete a mosaic of habitats which are little disturbed by human settlements as most of the predominantly German speaking inhabitants were expelled after the WWII and the area became a part of the deserted zone along the Eastern block border. Since the 1970s there2s been a stable population of lynxes.
 

U MALEHO VITKA (THE LITTLE VITUS)

BARBORA

BARBAKAN

SVAMBERSKY DVUR

RUŽE

THROUGH THE SUMAVA NATIONAL PARK

THROUGH THE SUMAVA NATIONAL PARK