As I promised in my previous blog, the next place I am going to take you is the Bicaz Gorge (Békási szoros in Hungarian or Cheile Bicazului in Romanian).This is one of the most stunning places in Romania, situated in Harghita and Neamt counties in the Hăşmaşu Mountains (Nagyhagymás) in the Eastern Carpathians.
As the small Bicaz (Békás) stream fights its way through the calcareous rock an amazing landscape has formed with steep cliff and narrow canyons.Békás stream
The road is twisting and turning between the rocks with huge altitude differences and incredible hairpin bends.Serpents
You need horsepower here!
The entrance of the gorge is marked by a new tunnel, that is wider and higher than the old one, allowing heavy traffic to go through, as this road is the main passage that links the two Romanian provinces: Transylvania and Moldova.Oltárkő / Altar-rock and the gorge
The Altar-rock has 1154 m and guards the region with a huge cross on its peak.Oltárkő / Altar-rock
As you walk through the gorge, you are fascinated by the giant vertical cliffs that trying to reach the sky make you feel so tiny, insignificant and mortal.In the gorge
In the gorge
If you have the chance to visit the place several times, you have time to notice amazing details and undiscovered aspects. Here, in the Bicaz Gorge, if you are attentive and lucky, the landscape offers you strange surprises. Looking upwards, suddenly, near the edges of a rocky wall, a familiar figure appears, well known from the renaissance sculpture: Madonna with the Child.What is up there?
Nature, with the power of the wind and the purity of the rain and man, with the imagination of his mind, create a masterpiece: Madonna of Bicaz Gorge.
Madonna of Bicaz GorgeThe last part of this blog is a translation of my text that is in the on-line newspaper Cotidianul, where my photos and text were posted
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Beautiful photos as usual. Thanks for sharing. And thanks for following. It's good to see a 360 friend, here.
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