Hamr na Jezeře IQ Landia Muzeum Čtyřlístku Rumcajsova ševcovna Family Holiday up hill and down dale ZOO Liberec Families with children may explore the Liberec Region in all its forms by playing and discovering new things at the same time. Fun and learning are combined in the botanic and zoological garden in the town of Liberec, famous for its white tigers. A unique experience is also guaranteed in the Liberec science centre with a planetárium and a park where visitors may explore physical, chemical, and other natural laws and principles via the interactive hands-on displays, or the dinosaur park with life-sized models. For fans of water activities, the region offers an indoor water park, municipal pools, and outdoor pools and dams. Adrenaline adventures in tree tops, on summer bobsled tracks, giant swings, mountain scooters, and in outdoor parks are available in the towns of Rokytnice nad Labem, Špindlerův Mlýn, Harrachov, Janské Lázně, Pec pod Sněžkou, Hrádek nad Nisou, Hamr na Jezeře, Nová Ves nad Nisou, Javorník, Malá Skála, Janov nad Nisou, Jiřetín pod Jedlovou and Radvánovice near the city of Turnov. Children will surely appreciate the museums of toys in the towns of Jablonec nad Nisou, Smržovka and Jiřetín pod Bukovou where they can even make their own wooden toys. In Pěnčín, the family programme includes holiday train rides, bead workshop, and a tour of a farm. The cog railway from Tanvald to Harrachov offers nostalgic rides in historic railcars. Steamboat cruises on Mácha´s Lake offer perhaps a less thrilling, but still very charming experience. Rumcajs, Manka and Cipísek, the characters from beloved children‘s books and cartoons, can be found in the Rumcajs‘ Shoemaker‘s Shop or in Rumcajs‘ World by the Radek Pilař Gallery in Jičín. Bobík, Myšpulín, Fifinka, and Pinďa. These are the characters from popular children‘s comic books that are on display in the Doksy Museum. Tours with costumed guides, special short tours of castles and chateaus, and tours guided by a princess are available in the Zákupy Chateau, Staré Hrady Castle, the Sychrov Chateau and ther the Dětenice Chateau. In Grabštejn Castle, visitors may open the mysterious and secret 13th Chamber with St. Barbara. Other thrilling adventures include the Gateway to Hell in Houska Castle where all your sins will be accounted for, and Bezděz Castle where visitors may enjoy fencing shows during the summer season. Crafts workshops, entertainment programmes, and museum playrooms are available in Kamenářský Dům in Turnov, the Templ town palace in Mladá Boleslav, the Museum of Games in Jičín, the Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav, the old timbered houses in Jílovecká Street in Semily, and Běliště in Železný Brodand in the museums and galeries in the towns of Liberec, Jablonec nad Nisou, and Frýdlant. The interactive centre of textile printing in the town of Česká Lípa allows its visitors to explore and even try their hand at both historic and modern techniques, while at the paper mill in the village of Zdislava, everyone can make their own sheet of hand-made paper. The museum in Zákupy organises workshops of carnival mask making, and in the House of Crafts in the village of Kryštofovo Údolí and the Fairy-Tale Cottage in the town of Žďár, visitors may try some of more the traditional crafts, while in the village of Poniklá, visitors may admire the hand-made production of Christmas decorations from beads. Families may also enter the challenge game called The Mysterious Places of the Jizera Mountains guided by Víla Izerína (Izerína the Fairy). It consists of eight places marked by metal badges with a code – visitors are supposed to find them all and copy them on a special card, for which they will be awarded the glass coin of Izerína, the patron of the mountains. The entire family may explore Bohemian Paradise via a game called (Tracing the Bohemian Paradise Legends, which combines fun and learning. During the game, the family is supposed to visit specified tourist attractions, fulfil minor task and collect stamps. Children will also enjoy a special trail in the village of Brniště dedicated to Vodník, a mythical male water spirit from Czech fairy tales. The Bear, the Tracker, the Fairy-Tale, the Forest, the Bee – those are the names of only some of the educational trails found in the towns of Malá Úpa, Benecko, Harrachov, Špindlerův Mlýn, Jilemnice, Pec pod Sněžkou, Hostinné, Sedmihorky, Bedřichov, Ferdinandov, Jizerka, Liberec, Polevsko, Jičín, Sychrov and Turnov. i map menu www