We expected that it will be a long day so already at 8.30 am we were on the road… First stage took us to the village of Novaci, where we found ourselves on the road 67C – the famous mountain road crossing the Carpathian Mountains. Them theroad is climbing up in many switchbacks to the level of 2145 m above the sea, passing tourist village Ranca with many small pensions and great views of the range. We were lucky regarding the weather: blue sky with only few clouds. But up there the temperature was only 15 deg with cold wind so it was necessary to wear the jacket. Few travellers know that there are two terrain culminations on Transalpina one by one
First one has altitude 2145 m bit no parking space here. Thend the road goes down and climbs again to the level 2112. Here is a space to park the car near the ugly tourist bazaar. After few pictures ee escaped down… On the upper border of the forest we met donkeys on the road and big herd of sheep. Then driving long time down the valley we reached the nice artificial lake and the dam. There were two smaller dams on our eay further down. Finally, saying goodbye to Transalpina we used for yhe girst time on this trip the new highway to reach big city Cluj Napoca at 4.30 pm. One more fantastic day!
