Leaving our camp site we head up the valley to Moldovita.
This was the first of our Painted Monasteries at Moldovita.
The church is set in a rectangular walled compound.
Now a Nunnery.
The Church in the centre is painted with stories from the Bible and like all of the Monasteries we are going to see today, were painted in the Fifteenth century.
The interiors are also highly decorated but photography is forbidden.
On route to our next stop we met Ernie the local Milkman.
Of course with Trigger.
This contraption housed several beehives and seemed to be a common site in this area.
Climbing further up the valley we get to our next stop at Sucevita.
A little more commercialised this time but still well worth a visit as the paintings are very well preserved.
This horse was sneaking a nibble at the hay its owners were collecting.
Beautiful to see this total throw back in time All harvested by hand and loaded onto Stooks.
Humor Monastery.
This was in a very peaceful setting, within the grounds there was a tower you could climb to get some great views of the surrounding buildings.
Next in line was Voronets
This has a wonderful wall depicting scenes from biblical texts.
This an example of some of the ornate houses on our route.
Believe it or not this was a Bus shelter.
Once again the road deteriorated slightly.
On route to Marmures with its wooden churches.
We stopped for the night near Borsa at Camping Laura Borsa.
Next morning we began to search for the churches.
This happened to be Sunday and all the churches were doing good business, so much so that being quite small interiors, most of the congregation were praying outside in the grounds.
Most of the Ladies were in Full Traditional dress.
Going down through a very pleasant valley we passed many of these churches of which there are about one Hundred in the region.
The end of another busy day and after braving a terrific storm we arrived at Viseu de Sus train station for our nights stopover before the Steam Train journey tomorrow.
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