Sailing on Vltava River dam reservoirs, hiking, and history

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of completion of the Orlík Reservoir, První orlická has prepared an interesting trip for visitors in the summer season in 2010. You can take a guided tour by boat focused on Orlík Reservoir itself as well as its history. A person who has worked on the reservoir for 40 years ...

Orlík Reservoir is part of the Vltava Cascades, its dam stemming the flow of the Vltava by Solenice in the Příbram district. The dam lake gained its name from the chateau, which once jutted out over the deep valley of the Vltava and is nowadays located only a few metres above the surface of the dam lake.

An early-Gothic castle, a customs house collecting the fee for travel along the river, used to stand on the rocky promontory, which once used to rise up high above the valley of the Vltava like an eagle’s nest and is nowadays engulfed by the surface of the Orlík Reservoir. An extensive English park spreads ...

Personal yachting lessons for beginners and laymen.

You can use the regular trips and connections of První orlická on the Orlík lake as well as on the Hněvkovice Reservoir (Hluboká nad Vltavou). You can thus combine trips by boat not only with a tour of Orlík Chateau and Zvíkov Castle, but also with a tour of Hluboká Chateau.

Why travel to the sea for your experiences when rental of a sailing boat on the Orlík Reservoir can be a wonderful experience and provide you with pleasure from sailing. You can sail on the sailing boat over the Vltava Cascades, the Orlík Reservoir and Slapy...right to Prague.