Having an early start leaving Sighisoara we head for Turda and Chiele Gorge and a Camper stop we found on the web, or at least so we thought.
We arrived in the village and followed the sat nav to the coordinates.
Dead end and no camp site.
After asking many locals we eventually arrived at the car park for the Gorge walk which was adjacent to the camp stop which unfortunately was on the other side of a river and nothing but a footbridge,
The camp owner was very friendly and asked if we wanted to stay. He insisted that we could drive down his grass track entrance from another local road into his uncut wet grass field. We declined and thanked him and decided to stay the night in the car park as seen below.
As it had now stopped raining we set off to walk the Gorge on a lovely sunny evening.
Beautiful views with some tricky sections where a safety line had been attached to the rocks to hold on to. It was a lovely and very popular walk. We met three school parties of youngsters on route.
This poor guy did not make it.
Leaving early next morning we pressed on towards Campalung to our next stop to spend a couple of days seeing the local painted Monasteries. We were instantly misled by our satnav and taken through Cluj Napoca a very large city in rush hour traffic. I was steaming by the time we eventually got through unscathed.
A Stork with her three chicks.
Calm before the city.
A few shots of Cluj Sarah managed to get whilst I was Steaming.
We travelled along the Borgo Pass, real name Tihuta Pass.
Apparently it was Bram Stoker of Dracula fame who termed it the Borgo Pass in his novel, never actually even visiting the area.
Anyway, Romania have benefitted from his novel ever since and most of the tourism is based on the Dracula legend and the real villain Vlad Dracula (The impaler)
The pass goes through some beautiful countryside, slightly spoiled by the continuous housing developments. One ribbon village goes straight into the next with no seeming gaps and the traffic is awful.
Anyway we enjoyed what we saw and arrived at our site,Camping De Vuurplaats, to find a lovely welcome from the Dutch manager and his wife.
Now we can settle down for a couple of days and relax.
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