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Rising like a giant granite reef above the patchwork Poprad plain, the High Tatras are for many people the main reason for venturing this far into Slovakia. Even after all the tourist-board hype, they are still an inspirational sight. A wilderness, however, they are not; all summer, visitors are shoulder to shoulder in the necklace of resorts which sit at the foot of the mountains. But once you're above the tree line, surrounded by bare primeval scree slopes and icy blue tarns, nothing can take away the exhilaration or the breathtaking views.

The mainline train station for the Tatras is Poprad-Tatry in Poprad (the main bus station is outside, across the road and to the right). From the high-level platform here, cute red tram-like trains trundle across

the fields, linking Poprad with the string of resorts and spas halfway up the Tatras and lying within the Tatra National Park or TANAP . They range from tasteless new hotels and cosier half-timbered lodges to spectacular turreted edifices from the nineteenth century set in eminently civilized spa gardens and pine woods - but it's the mountains to which they give access that make them worth visiting. Perhaps the best to head for is Stary Smokovec , the central resort.

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