Schleswig Holstein, with his about 2.8 million Inhabitants, is the most northern holiday country in Germany and the only federal state which is situated between 2 seas (the North Sea and the Baltic Sea).

It offers an intact environment, unique sceneries, culinary lusciousness and a huge number of cultural attractions.

Enjoy the nature during your golf vacation on one of about 45 golf courses in Schleswig Holstein, or cycle on the dike, do a canoe tour, or while horseback riding.

On the endless and well manicured beaches of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea swim friends and solar adorers find a lot of place for recovering too. Also a hike by the watt can work well for your health.

The national park Schleswig-Holstein wadden sea is the biggest national park in Germany and is considered as the richest area in bird of Central Europe.
Besides, Schleswig - Holstein has about 300 lakes with a total area of 28,000 hectares, these are nearly 2% of the whole land surface. Also threatened animals, like the sea eagle, have become domestic in the country again.
Schleswig - Holstein disposes over well a developed streets net and railway net.
A firm Fehmarnbelt crossing via Bridge should connect in future not only Germany with Denmark, but be of benefit as a project in the centre of Europe for all EU states.

Schleswig Holstein offers not only a countless number of hotels, pensions and apartment houses, but also caters to the golfer who would like to connect camping and golf vacation: There is a choice of nearly 200 camping sites.

Facts and figures

Capital: Kiel

Number of golf courses: 31x 18-hole, 9x 27-hole and 5x 9-hole

Ratio golf course to inhabitant: approx. 62,000 inhabitants per golf course

Infrastructure:

• More than 500 km of highway, thereby good connections from all directions (in particular Scandinavia)
• Approx. 1400 km of railroad network
• Approx. 1600 km of federal highways

Airports

Hamburg (www.flughafen-hamburg.de) IATA Code: HAM

Very good connections to all domestic airports as well as to Scandinavia (Copenhagen, Oslo, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Helsinki), to Holland (Amsterdam) and UK (London)

Airport Lübeck-Blankensee (www.flughafen-luebeck.de) IATA Code: LBC

This airport offers flight connections to Frankfurt-Hahn, London-Stansted, Stockholm, Pisa and Glasgow (mostly operated by Ryan Air)

Airport of Sylt (www.flughafen-sylt.de) IATA Code: GWT

This airport offers flight connections too many domestic destinations (e.g., Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart etc.). . International flights are available to European destinations such as Vienna, Zurich and Billund (Denmark).

There are favorable flight fares available from e.g., Air Berlin (www.airberlin.de) and TUI Fly (www.tuifly.de)

Airport Kiel (www.airport-kiel.de) IATA Code: KEL

There are regular flights from Cologne / Bonn as well as from Frankfurt / Main available.

Other regional airports which are suitable primarily for sports airmen and amateur airmen:

- Airfield Bordelum/Bredstedt (Tel. +49-4671-2653)

- Airfield Pellworm (Tel. +49-4844-325)

- Airfield Husum-Schwesing (www.husum-flughafen.de)

- Airfield Moor/Büsum (Tel. +49-4834-8585)

- Airfield St. Michaelisdonn (www.dithmarscher-lsv.de