Blue Hills Reservation, USA (Blue Hills Reservat, USA) (Blue Hills Rezervátum, USA) 05.2016.

I went on a cycling tour to visit the Blue Hills Reservation and the Ponkapoag Bog south of Boston. The whole area is a popular tourist destination but preserved a remarkable biodiversity in the Boston Metropolitan Area. Ferns were especially diverse. Location: Blue Hills Reservation. Date: 22.05.2016.

Ponkapoag Bog, USA (Ponkapoag Moor, USA) (Ponkapoag-láp, USA) 05.2016.

I went on a cycling tour to visit the Blue Hills Reservation and the Ponkapoag Bog south of Boston. The bog is famous for its red cedars the carnivorous plants. The whole area is a popular tourist destination but preserved a remarkable biodiversity in the Boston Metropolitan Area. Location: Blue Hills Reservation. Date: 22.05.2016.

Kelemér, Hungary (Kelemér, Ungarn) (Kelemér, Magyarország) 09.2011.

In the middle of September I went on a cycling tour to the Aggtelek National Park in north-eastern Hungary. I took all my photography equipment with me, because I wanted to take some pictures in the unique peat bogs of Kelemér and at a little lake in Jósvafő. I started my tour in the town of Putnok and cycled up towards the peat bog. There are two such bogs close to each other near the village called Kelemér, and both of them are strictly protected. There are very few peat bogs in Hungary and these are the easternmost ones. The bogs are hidden in a dense forest and inside them so many trees (Downy Birches, willows, poplars) are growing that it is quite easy to walk past them without even noticing them. That is probably one of the reasons that these bogs remained quite intact throughout the ages. They are truly unique habitats in Hungary, where climate and the lack of high mountains do not favour the persistence of such bogs (see here).