Szklarska Poręba - is a ski resort town in southwestern Poland and one of the most important centres of mountain hiking and skiing. Szklarska Poręba belongs to the Dolnoslaskie voivodship, within Karkonosze mountains - a resort with increasing importance for tourism as an alternative to the Alps. A ski area is a place where one goes to participate in the sports of skiing and snowboarding. ... A street in Ynysybwl, Wales, relatively stereotypical of a small town A town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. ... Mount Cook, a mountain in New Zealand A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... Many beautiful natural scenes are only accessible if one is willing to hike to get to them. ... Skiing is the activity of gliding over snow using skis (originally wooden planks, now usually made from fiberglass or related composites) strapped to the feet with ski bindings. ... Lower Silesian voivodship since 1999 Lower Silesia (Polish Dolny Śląsk, German Niederschlesien, Latin Silesia Inferior) is the north-western part of the historical and geographical region of Silesia in Poland, located along the middle Oder River and organized into Lower Silesian Voivodship, (Polish: województwo dolnośląskie) with capital Wrocław It was... A Voivodship ( Romanian: Voievodat, Polish: Województwo, Serbian: Vojvodstvo or Vojvodina) was a feudal state in medieval Romania, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Serbia (see Vojvodina), ruled by a Voivod. ... Aerial view over Karkonosze Karkonosze (Polish name, pronounced kár-ko-no-she;  Krkonoše in Czech; Riesengebirge in German) or Giant Mountains are part of the Sudetes Mountains in Central Europe. ... A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... The Alps is the collective name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria in the east, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany, through to France in the west. ...