You pass rustic trees and a beautiful heath landscape on the way over the Menke-Höhe. Great views of the landscape of the Eastern Eifel round off the experience.
If you hike the Bergheidenweg, you will cross the Heidbüchel juniper heath. Fantastically beautiful, a completely different nature experience that I had not expected in the Eifel. Definitely worth a visit.
The highest castle in Rhineland-Palatinate was built on a basalt rock. It was mentioned as early as 945 AD.
The castle ruins are well worth seeing and you even have …