Weather: 🌧️🌧️☁️☁️☁️
Picnic: 🥪🥪🥪 (3 out 5, wraps whilst spotting Otters in the river Nera)
Track: 🇷🇴🇹🇩🇹🇩🇹🇩 (4 out of 5, great trail through the autumn on a track through the Nera gorge)
Milestone: 5250 km
Hotel: 🛏️🛏️🛏️ (3 out of 5, basic hotel with shared bathroom and good food)
Name of followed trail: Via Transilvanica
We wake up after a really warm and long night in the hut. This makes it easy to get up, and we are ready to go before the sun is up.
It’s rainy outside , so we leave in rain gear. The drizzle continues the whole morning, making the trail a bit dark, eventhough the sun is up. It’s more easy going than yesterday, mainly because now, we walk downhill 😁.
It seems to be ideal weather for fire salamanders, we spot 8 today! On our way we also pass our 5250 km point, which we make with the autumn forest floor 😁.
The forest is beautiful, but les photogenic in the drizzle (exept for the animals). At some point the rain stops, so that makes having lunch a bit more attractive.
We find a good spot along the river, where we watch 2 otters getting into the water (too fast for pictures 😅). With a cup of coffee and tea, we warm up a bit (and make the Nutella usable).
After lunch we continue for our last 10 kilometers to Prigor. We meet the 2 cyclists from the hut, who waited out the rain and took 2 hours for the distance that took us all morning 😅.
We continue to Borloveni Vecchio (where the buildings indeed look old…), a village before Prigor. From there, it’s a 5 km roadwalk to Prigor. The sun even comes out for a little bit!
Around 15.15 we arrive at our pension, where we have plenty of time to relax and warm up, before we go for dinner. We get a nice dinner, with soup and chicken with mashed potatoes. I’m not that hungry today, but Mark can eat for 1,5, so that’s no problem 😁.
After dinner, we meet Roxana again, o e of the cyclists from the hut. We have a chat, and she helps us make a reservation for the day after tomorrow, since she can speak Romanian. Thanks a lot Roxana!
After that, it’s almost hikers bedtime 🥱😴.