Divoká Šárka: the wild gorge on the city's edge
A brook cutting a gorge through the cliffs, a crag with a legend, a swimming lake. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Divoká Šárka tram terminus
The 20 and 26 trams end here, and the city ends with them. Walk down off the road into the reserve; within five minutes the traffic is gone and you're in the *les* (woods).

2. Dívčí skok
The *skála* (crag) above the gorge — 'the maiden's leap,' named for the legend of Šárka, who threw herself from it. Stand at the top for the drop into the valley; mind the unfenced edge.

3. The gorge
Where the Šárecký brook cuts between the cliffs. The path runs along the water at the bottom — the most dramatic stretch of the walk, and cool even in high summer.

4. Džbán
A reservoir with a natural swimming area at one end. You don't have to swim. But on a hot morning it's the obvious reason to bring a towel, and the meadows around it are good for sitting.

5. The meadows
Open grassland between the woods and the water — the gentle counterpart to the gorge. Families, dogs, the occasional grill in summer. Cross it east toward Vokovice.

6. Nádraží Veleslavín
The metro A station on the city side of the reserve. Twenty minutes out of the woods on the woodland and meadow paths brings you here, and the airport-line metro takes you back into town.

Divoká Šárka: the wild gorge on the city's edge