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 Follow
the yellow tourist marks to the centre of the village.
Near the Morava Hotel you can see a wooden log house,
which was used as an elementary school for 9 children
from 1803-1808. In the village centre there is St. Joseph's
Church, built between 1802-1806. A new carillon has
recently been installed there; it consists of 11 bells,
weighing from 4 to 89 kg. It plays four tunes at 10:00
and 17:00, which are changed every quarter. On holidays
the carillon is also played at noon. In front of the
church there is a statue of St. Joseph. The former rectory
(now a post office) is interesting due to a plate between
the windows, denoting the water level during the big
flood on July 3, 1900. The village was officially recognised
in 1601.
From
there you turn to the right, upstream the Klínový Potok.
After 10 m you cross the stream over a concrete bridge
and go up the slope, without tourist marks, to Vápenice
(786 m above sea level). After an hour's hike you come
to a gap between Vápenice and Strazna Hora (825 m).
From there you can see the whole Podkrkonosi with the
dominant of the town of Vrchlabi (456 m); the south
horizon is closed by Zvicina mountain (620 m). You go
to the right along a narrow bitumen road; in a short
while you'll see Lisci Hora mountain (1363 m) with the
whole Dolni Dvur valley. After a half-hour walk you
get to the mountain village of Strazne. It lies in the
gap between Strazna Hora and Herlikovicky Zaly (958
m); to the west you can see Predni Zaly with a lookout
tower (1019 m) and the Labe valley below.
You
can take refreshments (restaurant, confectioner's),
and then continue down the moderate slope towards Hribeci
Boudy. Turn to the right, to Dolni Dvur. It is worthwhile
to make an about-three-hundred-metre diversion to Hribeci
Boudy, where is a former marble quarry - it stopped
to be used in the 1950s. Nowadays, several species of
protected rare plants are found here.
The
trip takes between 3 and 4 hours.
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