Møns Klint is the main reason most visitors come to the island and rightly so. A six-kilometre stretch of brilliant white chalk cliffs rises 128 metres straight out of the Baltic, fringed by beech woods that turn translucent green in spring. The drop is dramatic and the contrast — white chalk, turquoise water, dark green forest — is genuinely beautiful. The cliffs are slowly collapsing into the sea: large chunks fall every few years, so the path along the top is rerouted regularly.
The site is anchored by GeoCenter Møns Klint, a modern museum and visitor centre that explains the geology, the fossils (sharks teeth and ammonites are common finds on the beach below), and the ice age that pushed the chalk up. From the centre, a long staircase of 497 steps drops to the beach — walking back up is the price of admission. Trails along the clifftop run for several kilometres in both directions; the Klinteskoven, the old beech forest behind, is full of orchids in early summer and good for picnics.