Last weekend saw me exploring the Carpathian Mountains again. This time I went to Bucsecs, a mountain area just 2 hours drive from Bucharest, just at the border of Transylvania. This area is characteristic of its enormous rock faces but I saw some other friendly faces as well!
I planned some nice hikes, going up from the town of Busteni (at 900m) to the Babele hut (2200m) with the cable car and from there I wanted to go to the nearby Omu peak (2500m) and then down to Busteni again. Unfortunately bad weather came in and after taking some pictures of the unique sandstone formations of the Babele I quickly retreated using the cable car again.
At the top it was raining small iceballs – I’m sure there’s an English name for it, looks like my vocabulary of rain is still not extensive enough – but when I got down it changed to rain. So instead of hiking I went to see a beautiful little monastery.
On this trip I met several other ‘faces’ as well.
I see that caravans move just as slowly in your part of the word as they do over here. Two donkey power cannot be fast 😀
The word you are seeking is probably “hail” 😛
Yes, I thought of that word but I thought it meant different type of ice … this one was tiny white balls, ca. 1mm diameter. In Hungarian I wouldn’t use the same word for it.
Again, a good little tour! 😉