Monday, October 8, 2007

Day 175 Oct 01 Mon - Scrapyard Camp in Cujmir to Mt Stream Camp in Portile de Fier

Romanian villages houses
Dried corn leaves
I doubt these horse cart needs registration plate
Horse cart with usual car tires and leaf springs
Widening road work

Dunav River
Beautiful scenery but narrow road and bad shoulder
Orsova town

Very old Romanian villages houses , some as old as 100 years


Hydro dam across the river and also a border crossing to Serbia Many of these very short tunnels
Very clear km -stone ( you're on Rd 6 , 1 km to next town Guravaii and 18km to the big town Orsova
I only covered 1/8 portion on the right and turned inland


Mt stream Camp - small stream flows into a big Dunav river
Bridge for the cars and also for the train
Nice camp spot but my bike could not reach

View pt rest stop of Dunav river



Today's Distance: 81km
Today's Temp: 19 - 25c
Average Speed: 15.5 max: 57.5
Time on Bike: 5hr 12 min
Average climb: 2% max: 7%
Trip Altitude: 387m max: 198m
Today's spending: 30 lei
Total Distance to date: 11355km
Total spending to date: 50 lei


Romania 2nd day saw a better scenery than yesterday,trees leaves with multi color - green,yellow,brown and red.Weather is perfect but the road 56A was rather bad with many stretch under repair and widening road work. Started at 9.30am from inland Cujmir,Bucura,Rogova,Hinova,the road came close to the Dunav river in a big town with a long name - Drobeta Turnu Severin! Shopping in a PLUS supermarket. The traffic became very busy on a narrow road between the hill on my right and the river on my left. Quite a number of scenic view point to take pictures, Serbia ( ex-Yugoslavia) is on the other side of river. I do not have visa to visit. Today1s campsite is off road about 600m down to the stream that flows into the river.Tomorrow will be a hard push uphill back to the road...

4 comments:

kayowe said...

We're still with you, Meng. Keep the faith.

From California.

Nicolae said...

I am an habitant of these places, thank you for your posts and beautiful photos!

Thighland Meng said...

Thank you nicolae

Thighland Meng said...

kayowe, thank you