Transylvania - Romanian escapes,on and off road

[Hosszu Toll]

I will fix this problem... Until that you can see the pics on my blog: http://adventure-spirits.blogspot.com/

Thnx!

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I will continue with the 2-nd day


Day II


We continue our journey through the mountains

De la 2011-

De la 2011-

De la 2011-

KTM love

We start to climb in the upper parts of the mountains

Vidra lake

Transalpina

Managed to reach this point, where we felt down and we can't go further because of the big snow

Szidi enjoying the snow

Rainbow

We spend the night in an orchard

We bribe a dog with some food to watchour back at night

Enjoying the sunset

[Hosszu Toll]

Originally Posted by V-Twin-Maniac

hi guys.....nice report!!

i come over to romania in august this year...maybe we are crossing our ways somewhere.....would be cool!!

cheers

Yes it would be cool, send me a message when you're coming.

Ride Safe!

[Hosszu Toll]

Day III

I wake up in the middle of the night because of wolves, which attacked the sheepfold , about 1km from us ...


In the morning I speak with the shepherd, the wolves have not managed to rob anything

Szidi is happy

The fortress of Hunedoara

I am in late :))

Info

The yard

The Dieta and the knight's hall

Hunyadi János

[Hosszu Toll]

I managed to solve the issue, I changed the image hosting service, I hope I won't have this problem again.

Meanwhile I made a short movie about the trip:

Part I

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Part II

[drmracni]

just for must do some day...

[Hosszu Toll]

Originally Posted by drmracni

just for must do some day...

I just checked your thread, great landscapes, nice ride..keep on.

Ride Safe!

[Hosszu Toll]

2011.07.13-17


This tour starts very spontaneous, so there was nothing pre-planned, just wandering from one place to another.

Day I

On the map the Transfagarasan caught my eyes, so this is the first target.


The Transfagarasan road is situated in central part of the Fagaras Mountains, the 90 km long road passes trough and leads up to a height of 2,042 m and then passed through a tunnel under the main ridge, It has total of 578 bridges and viaducts and five tunnels.


Jeremy Clarkson - Top Gear - about the Transfagarasan: “It is the most amazing road I've ever seen! This is the best road in the world. Thank you Romania for having this and can we stay here forever?”


Mike Carter – The Guardian - place Transfagarasan in top 10 best motorcycle roads in Europe “A highway to heaven For the 35km highway that charges and snakes over Romania's Fagaras mountains is,
quite simply, one of the greatest buttock-clenching, white-knuckle biking roads in the world.”


We throw some stuff in the bags early in the morning and after a few km-s, we start our ride in the Carpathians.

The area has a picturesque view, but we rather let the pictures to speak.

The waterfall

We meet a lot of bikers

Balea lake

The two of us at the lake

We collect some additional energy from a good lunch and rest for a while. After this I am browsing my old trusted map, searching for a new destination, few miutes later we are on the twisty road again to the Sfanta Ana lake.
Late afternoon we land there, I ask the guy from the camping site where is more secure to camp, but he says that it's all the same because every night they have unwanted visitors, the brown bears.
Ok, so we have this information, I see three motrbikes in the campsiteand, that makes it easy to decide where to camp.
We quickly set up the tent and unload the bike, meanwhile one of the bikers teaches the basics of bikeing to a girlfriend. We pal up with the bikers, they came from Zalaegerszeg(Hungary) and they are touring in Transylvania. Drink a couple of good Harghita beers and socialize late in the night, after this everyone retreats to his own little resting place.


There's no problem wit the confort, but rather the presence of the brown bears, they wont let me sleep, I try to bundle off them but with no result. The bears are searching for leftovers till 5 A.M. then finnaly they get bored with terrorizing and disappear among the trees.
Adrián, Miki and Attila(from left to right)

[tserts]

Is there a better camp near Transfagarasan road? Sfanta Ana is a bit off my route, plus fuck bears.

Great road, can't wait to ride it!

[Hosszu Toll]

Originally Posted by tserts

Is there a better camp near Transfagarasan road? Sfanta Ana is a bit off my route, plus fuck bears.

Great road, can't wait to ride it!

Hi there,

I wasn't looking after a camping around the Transfagarasan, but I think I saw a camping place on the north side, just before you start to ride in the mountains.( at the foot of the mountain). Anyway you can wild camp anywhere you want in that area and I saw some pemsions in that area.

Ride Safe!

[tokyoklahoma]

Beautiful landscapes.
Beautiful architecture.
Beautiful women.

And I swear that the Carpathian Mountains have deeper shades of green than any forests I have ever seen.

[Hosszu Toll]

Thanx,...so I will continue.....


Early in the morning

In the morning the guys from Hungary are happy because one of the bears left his "fingerprints" on some plastic bottle.We check the iron horses for anything custom "monster" tatoo, huh the bikes are ok.

After the morning coffee they pack up and we agreed too meet again the next day in Borzont at a Bikers Weekend Party.

We spend the morning swiming at St. Anne's Lake, but we are bored soon,we pack up the KTM and our direction is Harghita Madaras.

The Sfanta Ana lake from the bushes

In this afternoon we settle down near the Zetea lake. We have a pleasant moon lighted evening walk, it is a good time to take some photos.

The lake

Szidi si resting her body

We are near a stream

We collect some fresh water

Early morning wake up and we are on the road to Balan, there we leave the bike in a garage, change our clothes and started to hike to the Hasmasu Mare mountains
The main atraction is the proudly emerging towers Piatra Singuratica. The tourist route it's like a recreation area to us.

The track takes us in some wild places

a few more to come...

[tserts]

Originally Posted by Hosszu Toll

Hi there,

I wasn't looking after a camping around the Transfagarasan, but I think I saw a camping place on the north side, just before you start to ride in the mountains.( at the foot of the mountain). Anyway you can wild camp anywhere you want in that area and I saw some pemsions in that area.

Ride Safe!

Thank you!

Are there specific signs where it is allowed to free camp?

[Hosszu Toll]

Originally Posted by tserts

Thank you!

Are there specific signs where it is allowed to free camp?

No, you are not allowed to camp only in some Natural Reservations, but there are specific signs where it is NOT allowed, elsewhere you can wild camp almost everywhere in Romania.

Ride Safe!