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THE 7-DAY PROGRAM:
"The Somesu Cald trail"
Day 1
Arrival, acquaintance,
introduction in the village Risca where you sleep the first night in guestrooms.
The village is located at 1000m altitude. If there is some time left we
introduce you the donkey and give you instructions.
Day 2
Instructions
and you make your first trip with the donkey. It’s a short round trip in the
village as a test to see if
everything goes well. You return to the same guest family for the night. Distance 12-km,
level difference 300m, 4-5 hours hiking.
Day 3
Hiking trip to the village
Rusesti. You leave your
guesthouse and walk between small farms on the plateau
near the Somesu Cald Gorge. From the settlement Lapustesti (church
has a nice painted interior). You descend a 7 km long winding
road to the village Rosesti. From here it’s just a few km to the village
Rusesti where you stay in guestrooms. Distance 16-km.,
level difference 150m climbing, 600m descending, 6 hours hiking.
Day 4
From Rusesti
you have to climb to one of the highest settlements of the Apuseni Mountains,
the village Marisel at 1200m. You’ll have beautiful panoramas. There is
an altitude difference of 600m between the 2 villages. You sleep in the
village Marisel at a local farm. Distance 12
km, level difference 600m mostly climbing, 5 hours hiking.
Day
5
Hiking trip to
the village Belis. You walk between the farms in the
widespread village Marisel. After that you descend to
the lake Fintinele, a large hydro lake built on the
confluence of the Somesu Cald en Belis Rivers.
Distance 9km, level difference 150m climbing and 300m
descending , 4 hours hiking
Day 6
Hiking trip to Risca. You
walk between little farms, hay and grassland. You walk
over the settlement Risca-Plej and back to your
guesthouse. Level difference: 250m climbing, 300m
descending,
Distance 12km, 4-5 hours hiking.
Day
7
The trip ends after breakfast.
THE 9-DAY PROGRAM:
"the wedding veil trail"
Day 1
Arrival, acquaintance,
introduction in the village Risca where you sleep the first night in guestrooms.
The village is located at 1000m altitude. If there is some time left we
introduce you the donkey and give you instructions.
Day 2
Instructions
and you make your first trip with the donkey. It’s a short round trip in the
village as a test to see if
everything goes well. You return to the same guest family for the night. Distance 12-km,
level difference 300m (climbing and descending), 4-5 hours hiking.
Day 3
Hiking trip to the village
Belis, It is a
trip between small farms, between farmland, hay land
and small patches of forest. level difference 250m (climbing
and descending) Distance 16km, 6 hours hiking
Day 4
Hiking trip to
Scrind. A trip through the huge
evergreen forest at the north side of lake Fintinele.
You stay overnight in the pesnion Dariana,
Level difference 500m (climbing and descending),
Distance 16 km, 6 hours hiking
Day
5
Roundtrip to the wedding veil waterfall. the 30m
high waterfall was named after a girl throw her form
the waterfall after her fiancé left here the night
before the wedding. The waterfall lies in the Stanciu
valley, you walk back along little farms spread out
over the hills. Distance 16km
Day 6
Hiking trip to the village Sancraiu, It is a trip over
the 1200m high Ruginoasa hill, with a long descend with very rewarding panorama's over the
Calata valley. You cross the villages Margau and Bociu. Level difference 250m climbing,
600m descending, distance 20km, 7 hours hiking.
Day 7
Hiking trip to Manastireni, It is a trip over open
grassland in the heart of the kalotaszeg region,
homeland of the ethnic Hungarians. There are some
beautiful churches along the trail. The reformed
medieval fortified church in Valeni and the wooden
Orthodox church in Bica. Level difference 150m,
distance 14km, 5-6 hours hiking.
Day
8
Hiking trip to Risca. You leave the plans and walk
back to the village Risca where your trip started. It
is a hike over a huge plateau and a decent along the
Risca River, Level difference: 400m, mostly climbing,
Distance 12km, 4-5 hours hiking.
Day
9
The trip ends after breakfast.
THE 15 DAY PROGRAM: "the mountain
trail"
Day 1
Arrival, acquaintance,
introduction in the village Risca where you sleep the first night in guestrooms.
The village is located at 1000m altitude. If there is some time left we
introduce you the donkey and give you instructions.
Day 2
Instructions
and you make your first trip with the donkey. It’s a short round trip to
the surrounding villages Risca de Sus and Risca Ples as a test to see if
everything goes well. You return to the same guest family for the night. Distance 12-km,
level difference 300m, 4-5 hours hiking.
Day 3
Your first
big trip. You leave the village Risca to Dealu Mare and Lapustesti (church
has a nice painted interior) from where we descend a 7 km long winding
road to the village Rosesti. From here it’s just a few km to the village
Rusesti where you stay in guestrooms. Distance 16 km.,
level difference 450m mostly descending, 6-7 hours hiking.
Day 4
From Rusesti
you have to climb to one of the highest settlements of the Apuseni Mountains,
the village Marisel at 1200m. You’ll have beautiful panoramas. There is
an altitude difference of 600m between the 2 villages. You sleep in the
village Marisel at a local farm. Distance 12
km, level difference 600m mostly climbing, 4-5 hours hiking.
Day 5
Roundtrip in Marisel. You make a
nice trip in the village. Marisel is a very long village with farms built
all over the huge plateau. It is an easy hike which gives you lots of time to see the
people in their daily chores. Distance
10 km, 3-4 hours hiking
Day 6
From Marisel
the road goes over the ridge to Poiana Horea. Just by leaving the village
you arrive at the battleground from the anti Hungarian revolution of 1848
and you’ll see the cross of Avram Iancu, placed there as a monument for
the local hero of that revolution. From here you enter the forest and you'll
have a splendid trip over open grassland and dark forest till the village
Poiana Horea where you stay in guestrooms for two nights.
Distance 23
km, level difference 450m, mostly descending, 7-8 hours hiking.
Day 7
Day of rest.
Day 8
Trip to the
settlement Doda Pilii. The trip brings you over the ridge to the Lake Fintinele.
You arrive there near the village Giurcuta de Sus, a small settlement at
the border of the Lake. From here it goes through the forest again to Doda
Pilii. You sleep in hotel rooms for 2 nights. Distance 16km, 6 hours hiking.
Day 9
Roundtrip
to the Humpleu Cave entrance. A day of leisure. It is a short trip
along the Firei Valley (4km) to the impressive cave entrance. The
gallery collapsed and you can enter the 35m high portal, but not further
then 30m. Total distance 8km. (2 hours)
Day 10
Trip to Rachitele
. You climb first the hill to the settlement Dealu Botii from where you
have superb views over the Fintinele Lake. It's a small dirt track through
forest, open pastures and hay land. From Dealu Botii you walk through the forest
to the Ruginoasa hill. You descend tot the village Scrind where you stay
overnight in the pension Dariana. Distance 20km,
7h hiking, level differnce 300m climbing 350m descending.
Day 11
Roundtrip
to the Rachitele Waterfall. The waterfall is an impressive 35m high and
lies about 6km out the village in the Stanciu Valley. It's a nice
trip along the Stanciu Valley and back along small farms and through the forest. Distance
14km, 4-5 hours hiking
Day 12
You leave
Rachitele over the Ruginoasa mountain. You pass the villages Margau and Bociu.
You walk to Sancraiu, an ethnic Hungarian village where you sleep in guestrooms.
Total distance:
18km. 6-7 hours hiking
Day 13
You leave
Sancraiu and go along the road to the village Calatele and Valeni. Valeni
is just as Sancraiu an ethnic Hungarian village. There is a very famous
church on a beautiful location on the hill. It’s a walled church dating
back to the 13th c. There is a lovely graveyard around the church.
From Valeni
it goes to Manastireni, another ethnic Hungarian village, again with a
famous church from the 18th century. You
sleep in guestrooms. Distance 14 km, 5-6 hours hiking.
Day 14
From here the road climbs to Risca,
where you meat again your guest family from the beginning of the trip.
Distance 12
km, level difference 500m mostly climbing, 5-6 hours hiking.
Day 15
The trip ends after breakfast.
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