Transfagaras - road to hell. Traveling around the world Together a beautiful road in Romania

Transfagarash is the most beautiful mountain serpentine in Europe. And one of the most dangerous roads in the world. This highway in the Carpathians connects Valachia and Transylvania. A winding track about a hundred kilometers long passes through the whole mountain ridge. Describe the species that are open, just stupid. It is just the case when it is better to see once. Alpine lakes and waterfalls, incredible serpentine, terrible rocks and pink mountains, one of the world's largest dams - there is something to see. For me personally, transfagaras became the main opening of this year. Travel was not enough, but this place left the brightest impressions. Photos, impressions and useful information - in my report.

The road goes through the Mountain Array of Fagarash. The maximum height on which highway passes, 2034 meters. It's just thirty meters below Goverla. Mountains around - once a half above Ukrainian.

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To begin with, by tradition, history in two paragraphs. The route from Valahia in Transylvania decided to build the legendary Romanian dictator Nikolai Ceausescu. Transfagaras built soldiers four years, from 1970 to 1974. The track was planned to use for military purposes. Allegedly Ceausescu was frightened by the invasion of Czechovakia in 1968 and decided to acquire by bypass routes. Type The road was needed for the transfer of troops through the Carpathians. It seems to me strange such purpose of this road. I can not even imagine tanks on a narrow serpentine. The version that transfagaras was built to develop the tourist attractiveness of Romania, I believe more.

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If you look closely, you can see the road and a small tunnel. There are no bumps. Immediately at the extreme band - a break.

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White stripe - Falls of the Friend. Soon we will come to it.

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To pave the way I had to blow up a part of the surrounding mountains. Wikipedia says that six thousand tons of dynamite took it. Without victims, almost 40 people died during the construction of the route.

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Types around are gorgeous, but it is possible to stop and enjoy them everywhere. The road is narrow, the side of which can be parked, it is rare.

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You can go up not only on the highway, but also on the cable car. Not for the faint of heart)

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Transfagaras is among the top ten most dangerous roads in the world. The route is open only two months a year - in July and August. At another time, the passage is shaved by concrete blocks, it is possible for the motorcycle to squeeze - at your own risk and risk.

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Transfagaras is considered a beautiful expensive Europe and one of the most picturesque in the world. Just a hundred kilometers - from the northern to the southern slopes of Karpat.

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On the highway will not be attended. Faster 50 km / h will not go. Really, all the way, taking into account stops, is ranked four hours.

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In 2009, the leading Top Gear programs tested on this highway. With Jeremy Clarkson's light hand, transfagaras began to call the best dear to ride on sports cars. Well, xs, honestly.

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The most beautiful part is the first 30 kilometers, if you go from the north to south. Before the pass, the road almost completely consists of serpentine and constantly rises.

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Stunningly beautiful views. Multicolored mountains.

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Waterfall He flows from the most vertices and several times the track goes straight near the water.

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There is an incredibly cute mountain lake on the pass. Well, just like the picture. Called, like a waterfall, fed. I wonder how it translates - Google did not help. Around a whole tourist complex - hotels, souvenirs, homemade cheeses and meat. I would love to live a couple of days at this hotel.

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Perhaps this is the main natural attraction of the transfagara. After the mountains themselves, of course)

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It is the highest point of the road, a little more than 2,000 meters. Outside the window July and +25, but the snowballs did not completely melt until the end.

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Fog crashes. There is a common phenomenon and often a thick haze hides all the beauties. But we were lucky.

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After the pass, the remaining two-thirds of the path (70 km) the road slowly descends.
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Another waterfall.
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Each meadow will graze huge Otara. I have never seen so many sheep before. They are really everywhere.

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The most picturesque point after the pass - the lake and the lamb of the wipe. The track goes right on it. The construction is ambitious. They built it in 1966. This is the ninth largest dam in the world and the fifth in Europe. Height - 166 meters. Without a high-roller bit)
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Upstairs, next to the apocalyptic energy robot, there is an observation deck. Unfortunately, there was no time to climb there.

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Lake Wester. Rocky shores, pure water, multicolored boats. Beauty and only.

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But something nevertheless gives the social value))
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We dive into the tunnel and keep the course towards Brasov, to the castle of Dracula.

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For four hours we drove the Carpathians through. Slopes on the south side.

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Liked? I would be grateful for the husky and reposit.

It all started in 1968, during a coup in neighboring Czechoslovakia. Then the current President of Romania Nicolae Cheressku, frightened by the same participation for his country, decided to protect himself, his power and Romania from the possible influence of the outside and ordered to build a military road through Pass Fagaras ...

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1. But, despite all efforts, the success for Nicola was not over. The coup was still organized, but somewhat later - in 1989. In the end, Ceausescu was shot, and we can admire the result of his strategic initiative to this day.

2. This route, as, however, all the roads, has its own encoding - DN7C. She passes through the Valahius and the famous "Motherland of the Vampires" Transylvania, taking its beginning in southern from the city of Pitesti and to the north merging with another automotive artery.

4. In the southern part of its part, the track runs through the mountains, having narrow end-to-end tunnels, as a result of hasty construction on the orders of the top leadership of the country.

5. With the construction of rush - 260 km of the track were laid in just 4 years (from 1970 to 1974). It did not regret neither the forces of the military, whose hands it was created (as a result of which several dozen people died), no dynamite, which was spent several thousand tons.

6. On the way there is a hydroelectric station with a decent reservoir and a small observation platform.

8. The most interesting thing begins at the entrance to the pass, for 30 km, a thin winding strip of asphalt goes along the slopes of the Carpathians.

9. The route is open 2-3 months a year, as a rule, from July to mid-September. In general, this indicator is very conditional and depended first of all from the weather and will of the local authorities. Everything else, snow avalanches overlap asphalt, blocking an entrance to the top, which contains a number of viewing sites from which the best views are opening.

10. In the period when the route is closed for cars, there is a way to visit the top, rising on the rope. But, in my opinion, the sensations are no longer the same, and the kind of winter is not so impressive.

11. Even if you are lucky enough to be on the observation deck, it is far from the fact that you can admire the view of one of the most beautiful highways of Europe. The weather can manage differently - for example, there is quite often a fog. But we were doubly lucky - an open track in aggregate with a clear sunny day.

12. Looking platforms chose donks. When tourists still did not have time to drown out the engine, parked on the side of the road, on duty at the "observers" sites are already suitable for "pay" in the form of various tacities.

Owls here without complexes, so it does not prevent them from looking into the car interior through the open window for inspection for the presence of "edible payment". They cause them to lose adults and mad delight of kids. But in fact, they are very friendly and ridiculous and not against the population in front of the camera.

13. On top of the pass, there is parking, a hotel and a tourist area, which represents several roadside cafes and a couple of dozen shopping kiosks located along the route. The subject of trading stalls is divided into two categories: various yummy and memorable souvenirs. From goodies - sausage of various species and smoked cheeses.

"Romanian approach" is visible immediately - not only that all products are stored without a refrigerator, so merchants did not even consider it necessary to cover it. All edible goods on the shelves are in open access, and exhaust gases past passing machines, apparently, according to local, add their special taste.

14. After examining the track from the height, it's time to get behind the wheel and test the technical characteristics of the car. Of course, it is not necessary to enter turns with a greek of rubber, because The strips are so narrow that some drivers fold side mirrors. Yes, and the bumps are absent, it remains only to carefully follow the road and enjoy the surrounding landscapes ().

Elizabeth Chatak passed on the most exciting high-mountain road Romania, which Cheressku at the price of several dozen lives paved through the Carpathians to defend himself from the Soviet Union.

Romania a little more than Belarus in Square (238 thousand km² against 208), but local diversity, languages \u200b\u200band landscapes amazing imagination. Here you can find almost everything than rich Europe: luxurious multi-kilometer beaches, cities with German architecture, mountains with snow-covered vertices and poor villages with a crazy rhythm of life, as if in Kusturica films. My attention attracted a length of Romania long in 151 km. In this place there are incredible beauty of nature, genius engineering thought and history of the country. I'm talking about the transfregareshhanskoye highway connecting Transylvania and Valachia.

The result of paranoia

Transfiregrashan built in the 1970s by order Nikolai Ceausescu with a military goal - to connect South and the north of the country directly. The task is not the simplest, since the Carpathians are bent in Central Romania, separating the country not only culturally, but also geographically.

The construction plan arose due to the concern that the tips will invaded socialist Romania to establish their power. This paranoia has developed from Cauchesska after Prague Spring. This, of course, did not happen, and 6 thousand tons of dynamite, which were needed for the construction of the road, were blown in vain. Although, perhaps, this is the most beautiful of everything that was created to protect against the Soviet Union.

This is the most beautiful of everything that was created to protect against the Soviet Union.

When you find yourself there, there is a feeling that Romanians carefully hide that it was in their mountains that the most beautiful places of the continent were hidden. However, they themselves joke: "No need to hide anything - the main thing is not to provide transport to get to the place." You can only go here by car or cycling. Rovar as an option is suitable only for super-trained travelers, because the road is not the safest and there is always cold. In Romania, in April almost everywhere + 20-25 degrees, but snow continues to lie in the mountains. As for transfregareshan, from November 1 to June 30, the path is closed on the most interesting mountain plot due to the icing of the road.

Start of expensive

Transfregareshhan begins immediately at the town of Kurta-de Argesh. In this mountain town it is worth spending at least one and a half hours, enjoy the landscape, find the houses, in the yard of each of which is growing a chic Magnolia tree, and in the spring everything on the main street is sleeping with large pink petals.

It is worth a visit and the Orthodox Assumption Bishop Cathedral, built in the style of Brynkovoyan, characteristic only for this area, similar to "Drunk Church" is still in Chernivtsi. The church is so beautiful and unusual that the legend arose around her the legend of the manol, who closed his wife in the walls as a victim to build the most beautiful monastery in the world, though at the end of construction and he himself dropped from the bell tower himself. There is no evidence of the authenticity of this story. Most likely, this is the simplest folk explanation of how such beauty could not appear.

Where to drive along the way

Following the transfregarezhan and seeing the first cluster of people and restaurants, raise your head up - the walls of the medieval fortress Poenari are preserved here (Poenari). Vlad Chain, the very real graph of Dracula, used it as a prison for prisoners. It is located on the border with the Valahius, and for the intimidation of the warriors from there, he sat down on his stake and left the body of prisoners who were visible from afar.

Because of this cute peculiarity of negotiations, it was called Tremon, that in Romanian means "skewer"

It was because of this sweet feature of negotiating him and called the chain that in Romanian means "skewer". Now the walls of the fortress are picturesquely swayed on the bumps of mannequins, smeared with red paint, reminding that this is not just a sightseeing platform, but a witness of dark centuries. You can get into the church only overcoming 1500 steps. Frankly, it was even more exciting than the fortress itself.

Update for October 2016: snow fell in the mountains, the highway is already closed.

The transfregarash mountain highway was built by order of the dictator Nicolae Causecu in the 70s of the last century, that is, about fifty years ago. At the moment it is the second highest mountain road in Romania after the Transalpian Road (Transalpina) and is among the top ten. The highest point on the track reaches 2024 meters. The highway crosses the Mountain Array of Fagarash, hence the name TRANSFăgărăşan, DN7C (or as sometimes written, transfagara).

The initial goal was to use the road for military purposes, but this undertaking, like many of the arrows, Ceausescu, did not justify himself. Not only that the construction of a bunch of people died during construction, it turned out that it was too expensive to contain it, since snow collapsions are often snowing. Therefore, as a result, the route is open from June 30 to November 1, dates may vary depending on the weather. In winter, the road looks like this:

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What to pay attention to:

• throughout the route there is no refill.
• there are stalls and cafes in two places: Lake Friell, and the dam Vrach
• the road is open only from 8:00 to 21:00, so you should not drive after 18:00, in order not to leave after the closure, in complete darkness.

Of the interesting on the road you can also see from north to south:

Cascada Bâlea- From him, there is a funicular to the lake, it is worth racing for an adult, 15 per child, one way.

Lake Lacul Bâlea - Picturesque lake at an altitude of 2 more than a kilometer. On the lake there are a couple of hotels and "Pances", a restaurant of middle lobby. But beautiful.

Peak Moldovan (Vârful Moldoveanu) - The highest point of Romania, 2544 meters. There is a non-slip, and, as far as I understand, not the simplest track from the Lake Friend - and you are the conqueror of the vertex.

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Cascada Capra (Cascada Capra) - Located right on the road, do not miss.

Cotton Poienari (Cetatea Poienari), Aka is real - for the most part of the ruins, but, if on the way, then why not climb. In addition, it opens with it a good look.

Vidraru (Vidraru) - Hydroelectric power station and lake, resulting from the construction of a huge dance in the form of an arch, 166 meters high.