Rock labyrinth Kalich - Chléviště

Our starting point is a parking place in Besedice. Red and green track will lead you to a former cottage U Kalicha where the yellow track through the rocks of Besedice starts. The whole track is 4,5 km long and was open on 25th September 1935 as a Tourist Path of Dr. Edvard Beneš. Somewhere you can still notice original red marks. At the first junction you will turn left and you will reach a view point Vysoká Skála. It offers a view of the highest hill of the Bohemian Paradise - Kozákov (744 m). The track leads along narrow paths in between rocks. You will pass through a labyrinth of Malý Kostel (Small Church), a rock with a conch-fracture called Ucho (Ear) and a labyrinth of Hrubý Kostel (Crude Church). You will reach a glade where you can find a memorial of victims of Nazism. The yellow track leads you into rocks with a sanctuary of Kalich in the middle. There is a carved alter with chalice (dated 1634). On the wall you can read a citation by Jan Amos Komenský and verses by J. E. Vitásek, a monk of a Franciscan monastery. The pray room was used by Czech Brothers during the period of counter-reformation. Right behind the sanctuary there is a symbolic grave of Czech Brothers. Following the yellow you will reach a rocky plateau with a view point of Czech Brothers. Then you will come to a wide path with a junction. The yellow track leads you to rocky area called Chléviště (Cattle-shed). People used to hide their cattle here when needed. You will pass a group of rocks Ve Vrátkách and you will get to a large cave of Václav Sádovský ze Sloupna.
Then you will reach the most beautiful views points of the region of Maloskalsko. The first one is called Hořákova, the other one Husníkova. The both view points offer a beautiful view of the valley of Jizera river, Vranovský ridge, Ještěd etc. The track will further lead you to the cave of Matěj Krocínovský from Borek, a preacher who was executed because of his religion. The following view point "Kde domov můj" got its name after the Czech national tune. The next group of rocks is called V Zátiší; the view point Kinského is overgrown with trees. You will pass a junction and go up through a beech forest. You will reach a rocky area by the peak of Sokol (562 m). You will see two single standing rocky towers on your left - Sokolík and Sokol. On the top of Sokol there used to be a view point but trees around are that high today that you can not see much. Behind Sokol there is a turning to the left, leading to Masarykova view point, which offers a view of Suché Skály and Krkonoše (Giant Mountains). Suché Skály (also called Organ or Czech Dolomites) were proclaimed protected area in 1965. They are a popular climbing terrain.
After returning to Sokol you will walk down to the cottage of Kalich and the red and green marks will lead you back to the parking place.