The Long Way Home - Polovragi |
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Last night at 19:46 I finally arrived back home after a total trip of 1455 km.
Despite taking the, by now, usual return route through the Retezat Mountains we saw a couple of new things on our way back. As I do, I saw a sign saying Polovragi Monastery and some very rugged mountain landscape in the distance, somewhere along the way, so I took a hard left off the main road in order to investigate.
The 500 year old monastery was very pretty but didn't manage to impress, most likely due to the heavy restoration works underway on their main church.
The rugged mountain terrain, however, is a different story. It turned out the steep rock walls I could see from 20 km away were Cheile Oltetului (EN: the gorges of the Oltet river), home to the 10 km long Polovragi cave. I wasn't in the right company to visit the cave but the trip to the cave itself was worth the effort. Imagine a one lane dirt road closely following the rock face on one side of the gorge, above the river that's still calmly carving away at the rock 100 m down. I was able to descend a few meters towards the river just in front of the cave into a place where the 2 sides of the gorge were no more than 3 meters apart. Awesome!
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