8 kmMarbæk Area
Nearby natural area with forest, heath, coastal cliffs, and the Wadden Sea in the same landscape.
Skallingen is an open coastal landscape where the scenery quickly changes: sandy beach and dunes to the west, dune heath, salt meadows and marshland to the east. There is not much here that tries to be neatly landscaped. The landscape is still being shaped, and that is precisely what makes the place special.
The area is best suited to peaceful nature experiences and walking without fixed markings. A locally known walk is “Siberia there and back”, a 7-kilometre round trip where you may have the chance to see seals and many birds. Along the coast, amber may be hidden in the washed-up seaweed, especially where the beach has collected material from the sea.
Skallingen is reached via Skallingenvej from Ho, and you can drive to the end of the paved road. At the end of the road there is a picnic shelter and the Old Rescue Station, with an exhibition about life in the area. Tides and flooding should be taken seriously, and dogs are not allowed, not even on a leash. Between Skallingen and Langli, access to Ho Bay is prohibited all year round; the trip to Langli has its own access rules.
Langli lies east of Skallingen in Ho Bay and is the smallest of the four Danish Wadden Sea islands. It is uninhabited today, but had permanent settlement from around 1840 to 1913.
Access is across the tidal flats at low tide, and the island is only open to the public from 16 July to 15 September. For the rest of the year, Langli and the surrounding tidal flats are closed out of consideration for birds and other wildlife — an island where the calendar and the tides determine more than the paths.
