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The weather was just too good to stay inside so we decided to take a trip to a small valley called Ramsødalen (dalen in danish means valley in English) near by. Actually we didn’t know what it was or if it was anything of interest so we didn’t know if it was worth going but I must say we very surprised as it was an experience out of the ordinary !

The fun part is that it’s only about 8Km from Roskilde where we live and we have never heard about it, nor do we know anyone that been there. The only reason that I knew about it was because I had passed a rather anonymous sign about the valley on some of my bicycle rides. One day I stopped at read the sign and thought it might be a nice place to take a little walk and I would suggest my girlfriend Tine that we should check it out one day….

And I have to say, it was a treat !! I think we walked about 10Km and we didn’t meet anyone else out for a walk so we felt rather privileged to have this all for ourself !

This valley, that is about 6Km long, was made by the melting ice about 15.000 years ago. Quite a bit of the valley is a nice piece of nearly untouched Danish nature with meadows, bogs and small lakes. About 300 hectare (741.316 acre) is a protected area and may not be changed by human. The reason is to save this kind of nature and the animals that lives in it. The area also holds an EF (European community) status as a protection area for birds. The protection also gives the public the right to explore the area to the extent that the nature isn’t suffering from it.

Besides walking in this unique nature you will see farm fields and may see various kind of grazing animals too.

Here is where we started. In parts of the marked route you need to follow there are an easy to see track but in other parts you just have to pay attentions to the marks.

As you can see, we picked a very good time for this trip. The mustard flowers on the fields were blooming and I was lucky to get close to a dragonfly.

After passing some beautiful nature we came to a stop. The marks was pointing right into a little creek and we were wondering what the meaning was. It turned out that there was a very narrow track leading to this tunnel with a small walk path.

The area here is actually belonging to Copenhangen’s water supply and the walk path was made so there staff had a chance to go through the tunnel. Isn’t the nature just beautiful ?

We went by a small creek on the main road to the water supply and later one of the bogs.

Well, I think I will let the some of the pictures speak for themself…..

Yes, this is my wonderful girlfriend Tine. The picture dosn’t show it but the grass was so high that it went all the way up to her hips.

If you like the pictures, there are more of them here.

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