The March and Thaya rivers are steppe rivers - the most western ones in Europe. Here, rare flora from South and East Europe still grows. In the ponds, primeval crawfish survive, since more than 280 million years.
During the winter, the tracks of the beaver are well recognizable - fallen trees, beaver castles and beaver slides. Experienced nature guides accompany you following those tracks, from June till October also on the canoe.

Air full of life
The March-Thaya flood plains are a bird´s paradise. Nowhere else in Europe, so many bird species can be observed close up. More than 230 bird species can be experienced at the bird-lookout-points Hohenau-Ringelsdorf. Researchers show visitors what elsewhere is only accessible to professionals. (June till October)
During the winter, up to 5000 ducks and 5000 goose settle at the bird ponds - an impressing event!

A journey through time
The battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen, the end of the Bohemian king Ottokar - that´s what most people will have learned at school. At the prehistory museum Stillfried, findings can be seen that are more than 30.000 years old. Of a time where mammoth hunters lived here. Many million years old are the fossiles that can be discovered in the sand pits near the castle of Theben. The view is fascinating: over the March-Danube-mouth down to the Schneeberg mountain.