📜 Via Ferrata Bechyně is one of the most challenging via ferratas in the Czech Republic, rated D/E. It features a demanding power traverse directly above the Lužnice river and requires climbers to return the same way.
🔍 This unique route includes sections where your body will be virtually horizontal, demanding significant physical fitness.
☀️ Experience a D/E difficulty via ferrata, one of the toughest in Czechia.
🧗♀️ Navigate a unique power traverse directly above the Lužnice river, including a rope bridge.
🏞️ Enjoy the physical challenge with sections requiring extreme pulling force and horizontal body positions.
🏊♀️ Combine your visit with a swim at the open swimming pool in Bechyně during summer.
⚠️ This ferrata is only suitable for physically fit climbers due to its D/E difficulty and limited resting spots.
💧 Be prepared for potentially wet conditions if the river level is high, and slippery iron in wet weather.
🔄 It's a dead-end route, meaning you must return the same way, and it is bi-directional, so you may encounter climbers going the opposite way.
🅿️ Ensure proper parking to avoid fines, as parking regulations can be strict.
🚗 Parking is available in front of the bridge on the right bank of the Lužnice river or anywhere in Bechyně. Specific parking coordinates are 49°17'28.27"N 14°28'14.38"E.
🚶♀️ From the bridge in Bechyně – Zářečí, follow yellow signs towards Židova strouha, then arrows to the ferrata, which starts with a ladder descent.
🚆 The ferrata is accessible by train, car, bike, or on foot.