Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Day 177 Oct 03 Wed - Corn Farm Camp in Armenis to Timisoara International Camping

Caransebes
Zero km signboard at Caransebes junction. Paris is 1831km away

Timisoara , a very expansive touristic town
Metropolitan catheral in Timisoara
One tree hill



Timisoara Int'l Camping , 5 km to the city

Chalets cost 90 lei
Timisoara Int'l camping next to a caravan from Germany
Around Timisoara

Today's Distance:132km
Today's Temp: 9 - 32c
Average Speed: 19.3 max: 44
Time on Bike: 6 hr 51 min
Average climb: 2% max:5%
Trip Altitude: 146m max: 334m
Today's spending: 27 lei
Total Distance to date: 11583km
Total spending to date: 98.50 lei

A very long flat sunny ride today on a narrow bad road with hardly any shoulder at all. On few occasions I was forced to go down to the side with stone and sand by the big giant trucks.Started exceptionally early at 8am on a very cold morning 9c .My plan was to turn left to a scenic mountain road to Resita,but somehow I missed that junction and ended up on this busy road to Timisoara , a very big city with very expensive hotels. I was told by the tourist information center that there is a hostel in town ,but was damn disappointed only to discover that it was closed for renovation,left with no choice but to cycle back to the Timisoara Int'l camping ground that I saw 5 km on the way to the city. The fee is 27 lei ( 7 for the bike) , more expansive than when I was camping in France and Germany.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hello Meng,

Nice pics, especially the ones on nature. ‘One Tree Hill’. just like out of a cowboy movie.

Chong5