Trail at Happy Land

Resource for building
your dream home

The GeoPark section of Happy Land was a canyon walk filled with stations describing the geology.  Every canyon in the Czech Rep. is lined with sandstone and not in small pieces as this pic attests.  It is from walls such as this that the original village founders hand carved blocks averaging 3' long, 3' deep, and 2' tall, which they dragged to the village and began building their homes.  Now, if you are looking for durability and permanence this is the way to go, not pine studs two-foot on center.  Of course, hand chipping the blocks out and dragging them from the forest is not for sissies.

The beauty here...surreal

Streams that have eroded the canyons leave behind many canyon floor ponds, which are beautiful and functional for wildlife; however, should you be dragging stone blocks from the canyon...well I can only guess whether or not this is where the maxim "life is just one damn thing after another" originated.

"Admit it grandpa, we're lost!"



For the elderly, it was a long walk and if you think grandpa found it hard going down into the canyon, you do not want to hear what he said about coming back up!

"I totally get it, daddy."

The Czechs have a very ironic sense of humor about crossing large stagnant ponds!
Justin and Sofia crossing the Pond.













 

"Sarah, you miss this one and we both ride home on top of the car!"

"No mom, this is the
corner piece!"

One of the exercises was a huge picture puzzle of the canyon that everyone enjoyed putting together while Carol and Ralph sat on a rock trying to catch their breath.

Designed by "Bigfoot"

Again, the perverse sense of humor: "No hike is complete unless you finish it traversing a deep gorge on a rope bridge."  I suspect this is why there are no old people in the Czech Republic; I'm warning everyone over 65, do not come here for a walk in the park.

"Piece of cake."



See, if you're under 65 and speak Czech, no problem.