Places worth visiting

PESTERA URSILOR - CHISCAU (The Bears’ Cave - Chiscau)
How to get there: via DN-76 (national road 76) (Oradea-Deva). At km 86 DN-76 links to Sudrigiu locality on DJ-763 (county road) providing access to the cave after another asphalted 16 km. A scientific reservation, Peştera Urşilor (The Bears’ Cave) features abundant cave formations, being the only one of its kind among the caves opened to tourism. It is here that one can find fossils of the cave bear – Ursus Spelaeus – which has last inhabited the earth 15 000 years ago.  
Total length of Peştera Urşilor is over 1500 m and the length of its lower gallery reaches approximately 700 m.  
A tour guide will take you in a 45 minutes-cave tour.

PLATOUL CARSTIC PADIŞ (The karst plateau of Padis)
How to get there: following a 10 km poor forest road.
a. The 15 km-diameter Padiş karst area displays chasms, kettles and caves – some narrow, unreachable and other vast and outstanding.
In the north side of the plateau one can admire the wild scenery of the Someş Cald waters springing to surface after crossing the galleries of Cetăţile Rădesei.
In the centre of the great glade are located the Biserica Moţului mountains (1460m) which dominate the surroundings and offer a spectacular view over the plateau of Padiş.
2 km to the south and you discover Poiana Ponor and its marvellous springs which disappear through the kettles in the vast glade of Padiş only to forcefully strike the rock walls at the surface. Its itinerary makes it disappear again through the kettles of the southern side of Poiana Ponor. When spring comes and snow is melting, the kettles cannot absorb the vast amount of water collected and as a result, the glade becomes a lake surrounded by firs.

b. Cetăţile Ponorului display three kettles that are over a 100m deep and communicating through a subterranean tunnel followed by a 2 km-long cave and an underground lake. The first kettle (Dolina I) features a 70 m-high natural gates which lead to the subterranean world of Cetăţile Ponorului. Its dimensions and wilderness make Cetăţile Ponorului a unique site in Romania and a natural reservation. Visiting it is only recommended to experimented and well-equipped tourists.  
More to the south, Galbena spring emerges in a beautiful fall out of the waters collected within Cetăţile Ponorului. Pârâul Galbena has made its way through the chalk walls, in time, forming beautiful, natural and wild landscapes.

OŞELU WATERFALL
Access ways: 2,5km away from the pension, in Boga holiday village.
The waterfall has an about 10 m height. It is situated at the crossing of Oselu Valley (not accessible) with Rea Valley.

PIATRA BULZULUI (Bulzului Stone)
800 m away from the pension on the access way to Boga village , there is a stone wall with an interesting shape that towers Bulz river.

BOHODEI WATERFALL
Access ways: 15 km from the pension, on the road to Pietroasa, there is a branch of a forest road on Aleului Valey that ends at the waterfall’s foundation, that has a 45 m height.


   

 

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