Copyright: Eifel Tourismus, Dominik Ketz Copyright: Eifel Tourismus, Dominik Ketz
Fabulous rock country
On the road in the realm of the sandstone giants
In the very south of the NaturWanderPark delux, a landscape that looks as if it has come straight out of a fairytale book awaits. Where the Luxembourg sandstone forms bizarre rock shapes, your hike will be an adventure. Around 190 million years ago, there was a primeval sea here - from the bottom of which 70-metre-high rock formations rise up today. Over millions of years, calcareous binder has bonded the fine grains of sand together to form mighty boulders - and it is precisely between these that you are hiking today.
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You move through a geological field of tension: the Ferschweiler Plateau on the German side, the Berdorf Plateau on the Luxembourg side, and in between the valley of the Sûre - deeply incised and full of surprises. For around 25 kilometers, the trail winds its way through narrow crevices, past viewpoints, over footbridges and around rock bastions. And when one of the gorges narrows to just 40 centimetres, things get really exciting. - Felsenweg 6.
This is where it gets spectacular: for around 18 kilometers, you cross the legendary Devil's Gorge - a huge crevice created by rock slides around 12,000 years ago. Cool, mysterious and at the same time breathtakingly beautiful. And when you have made the last few meters up, the Liborius Chapel opens up a wide view over Echternach and the gently undulating Eifel landscape.
