Discover Germany's largest island and its surroundings
Enhance your conferences with a programme of fascinating side activities! For groups or individual participants, before or after a conference. Whether you want to explore the island of Rügen, enjoy a boat trip on the Baltic Sea or visit the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, the International Academy for Nature Conservation team is happy to help you plan and organize your activities.
Enjoy our fascinating natural landscape!

View of the Königsstuhl, photo: U. Lussky
Scientific excursions into the small but exquisite Jasmund National Park. Viewing of the unique chalk cliffs and the modern information centre at the Königsstuhl*
Scientific excursions into the "Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft" National Park with its impressively untamed coastal landscape.
Scientific excursions into the Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve*: recreational cultural landscapes managed by traditional methods.
Observation of migrating cranes in spring and autumn
Excursion to the Greifswalder Oie island bird sanctuary

View of the Kleiner Jasmunder Bodden; photo: U. Lussky
Excursions to organic farms (Bisdamitz, Stönkvitz, Altkamp)
Guided nature study walks, photography tours and lectures organized by the Naturerlebnisverein Rügen (Rügen nature discovery association)
Guided herb walks
Relaxation, activity and excitement by the sea!

Yachts in Seedorf;
photo: U. Lussky
German Oceanographic Museum, Stralsund*
Guided sea kayak tours through the biosphere reserve*
Guided canoe tours of the lagoons
Traditional yacht cruises in the Bay of Greifswald

Cyclists at Cape Arkona
Motor boat trip across the Bay of Greifswald
Boat trip along the chalk-cliff coast or around the Isle of Vilm*
Sailing, surfing, kiting (e.g. courses in Lauterbach)
Sea fishing
Body wraps and treatments with Rügen healing chalk
Come face to face with a thousand years of history and culture!

Ralswiek Palace
Stone Age burial sites
Visit stately homes and manor houses and their gardens (Rügen has over 1,200 architectural monuments)*
Concerts in medieval village churches*
Guided tour of the park, theatre and town of Putbus, a showpiece of classical architecture.

Spa architecture in Binz; photo: U. Lussky
Guided tours of Stralsund’s old town (a cultural World Heritage Site)*
Sea spa architecture
Numerous craft products*
Mönchguter museums on the history of local fishermen and farmers.

Putbus theatre
photo: U. Lussky
Concerts during the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania music festival
Open-air theatre with Stralsund cloisters or Cape Arkona as an enchanting backdrop
Störtebeker festival
We will gladly send you further information on any of the activities listed. For the options marked with an asterisk * we have supplies of information leaflets
For accommodation on the island of Rügen, please contact
www.ruegen.de.
