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Last Thursday I left Comarnic together with my Grandmother and Grandfather and headed for Herculane. We were back late on Sunday evening after 1300 km through some of the most beautiful parts of Romania.
On day one (Thursday) we did the 460 km from Comarnic to Herculane in a little less than 9 hours. We only stopped in a few places along the way to eat. The sights were pretty interesting but it was mostly places I'd already seen before.
Friday morning was dedicated to several business matters and then we had the entire afternoon to do some visiting of the local sights. We only went for a short 20 km drive up the Cerna valley, stopping every few hundred meters to take pictures. It was just enough to give us the opportunity to spot a forest fire in the Domogled national park. As there was obviously no signal on any mobile phone network I drove back down into Herculane as fast as I possibly could on the winding mountain road to call it in.
It appears I wasn't the first as the rangers were already on their way.
We had set day 3 aside for the Danube Straits (Romanian: Clisura Dunarii) with its Big Hollows and Small Hollows (Romanian: Cazanele Mari si Cazanele Mici). There are no words good and fair enough to describe the beauty of these places. We had lunch at Cabana Dunarii in Moldova Noua, high on top of a hill overlooking the Danube which seemed to surround us on all sides.
The original plan was to return the same way we came, via Orsova, but thankfully the many road works convinced us to return through the Mountains of Banat by way of Oravita and Anina. Breathtaking scenery all the way, more winding mountain roads and a surprising unknown river (to myself at least), the Minis, carving spectacular gorges (Romanian: chei) as it descended towards its meeting point with the Nera River.
The pictures of this day just can't do it justice.
Day four. We returned to Comarnic on another road, heading up the Cerna river, towards Baia de Arama and Targu Jiu. We made a brief stop at the monastery of Tismana and a looong stop in Targu Jiu to admire the work of Constantin Brancusi.
LATER EDIT: Total length of journey: 1284 km.
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