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Symbol- High Tatras



 Thanks to the most beautiful Slovak mountain, the High Tatras is an area, which is the most attractive tourist destination offering the nature. Thanks to its fascination, the High Tatras mountains are sought after by the domestic and foreign tourists, as well, and it also became a symbol of Slovakia. Every year the High Tatras attract thousands of tourists, mountaineers and skiers by its beauties, high peaks and magnificent mountain lakes. Besides the splendid nature, the cogway railroad, called also as "zubačka" by the domestic people, is an attraction for tourists. The High Tatras mountains have fascinated many mountaineers and ski-alpinists. For those who desire to admire this splendid country from the height, but for a lack of courage and experience they are not able to climb up it, the suspended cableway is built here directly to the peak called as Lomnický štít. In addition to the marvellous view, you can also experience here the night in the highest placed hotel in Europe. The High Tatras mountains will enchant you and your visit here will not be certainly the last one. Experience yourself the magnificent walks with joy in the surroundings of the Štrbské pleso (mountain lake), or go for a hike in high mountains using the marked paths. The High Tatras mountains are simply a challenge for every tourist  Each tourist, who is wandering along the paths of the High Tatras, deep inside his heart believes that he shall see it - as the reflection of his silhouette waves on the clear surface of the tarn, or as it merrily jumps on the sharp cliffs. You are asking of whom? Of course of the **Tatra chamois** considered as the symbol of the Slovak high mountains.  When taking a tour on high up in the Tatra mountains we can glimpse a **chamois** or a marmot, which rank among the very skittish animals. The Tatra chamois is a completely unique species of chamois, as after the ice ages finished, it was evolving thousands of years absolutely isolated. Therefore it is much different from the relative chamois species in the Alps or the Apennines, and this species cannot be found anywhere else in the world. As at the present there are only something more than 200 pieces of them, they are very strictly protected.  The High Tatras mountains are situated in the northern part of Slovakia, on the border with Poland. In 1949 it was declared to be the first Slovak national park (TANAP) and in 1993 it was together with the polish part of the Tatras mountains declared by the UNESCO to be the "Biospheric reservation of the Tatras".   The High Tatras were created about 60 mil. years ago heaving up the granite massif above the level of the surrounding land. It gained its current appearance by the glacier activity 2 mil. years ago. The characteristic peaks (such as Gerlachovský Peak, Kriváň, Rysy, Lomnický Peak), deep valleys of glacier origin (Mengusovská Valley, The Grand and The Small Cold Valley), moraines and mountain lakes (Štrbské Mountain Lake, Skalnaté Mountain Lake ) were formed the same way, too