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Archive for the tag 'amber'

Amber on the North and Baltic Sea

helge 20th September 2010

The majority of German families have already made holiday on the North or Baltic Sea. The most popular holiday destinations are Germany and even Denmark. With Germany's best known as one of the island of Ruegen in northern regions is family friendly. On complaints are usually rented vacation homes, as they often allow dogs and give families the opportunity to feel quite at home. Online offers Casamundo cottages in the North Sea and Baltic Sea region, but also in the rest of Europe, at. There are also many camping and caravan drivers in the north of Germany or Denmark, bid for them on the beach, parking or camping holiday is the best opportunity.

Arriving at the beach, there is much to discover. Children gather with great zeal, shells, rocks, snails and plants without end, so that the parents at the beach towel heaped mountains of wreckage. By children or by a mere idea often starts to search for amber. The golden-brown rock composed of fossilized resin, so he's the solid form of hardened tree sap. The changes up to about 250 million years old his resin figure with the tough years of tree resin for solid gemstone. Especially popular are rare, and amber with fossils, which means small animals that were in the process of tree resin for amber directly on the tree surrounded by the resin, thus obtained.

Even if after a few hours of unsuccessful search usually gives up Amber, you must not give up amber in principle. Many places on the East or the North Sea have amber museums in which not only large and small pieces of jewelry are on display, but also tell something exciting about fossils and resins can. For example, the German Amber Museum in Ribnitz Damgarten on the Baltic. A visit to the museum is also recommended to everyone else.