Sylt rewards aimless wandering as much as ticking off sights. The big draws are natural: the long west-coast beaches, the red sandstone cliffs at Kampen, the dunes and salt marshes of the Wadden Sea on the east side. But there is also a thousand years of human history in the thatched-roof villages, the medieval church of St. Severin in Keitum, and the neolithic passage graves and dolmens scattered across the island.
The four corners of the island each have their own character — Westerland for the boardwalk, Kampen for the moneyed crowd and the red cliff, List in the north for the windswept sand spit at the Ellenbogen, and Keitum on the east for the old captains' houses and the church. Use the filters below to browse by category.