RANTUM - SYLT’S NARROW WAIST

In Rantum, you are as close to the sea as you can get. The surf on the west coast and the calm Wadden Sea in the east are but a few hundred yards apart. Dunes sit sandwiched between the seas, houses perched on their tops.

Fine prospects for sun-worshippers: the seven-mile beach has plenty of room for everyone, whether you want to play sports, fly a kite or just laze around. By the way, did you know that Sylt’s most famous whaler was born in Rantum? Having signed on to his first ship at the tender age of eleven, the later captain Lorens de Hahn hunted down 169 giants of the sea.