The Somesul Cald tour
România Relief entities > West Carpatians > Bihor Vlădeasa
Duration: 4 h only the tour
Length: 8 km only the tour
Height difference: +500 m / -500 m
Note: Difficult, practicable only in the summer
Some important information:
We should range the circuit to the right, independently from the way we get there on! The route generates two fundiforms. The first is smaller this is the Radeasa circuit and the bigger: the Somesul Cald circuit.
Dont leave the blaze, for it takes you on the shortest and safest way!
The loop-ways are double marked and they have no continuance for you have to turn back to the path!
It is harder to patrol the Somesul Cald circuit as for its length and its big difference of height. The blaze starts on the bank of an affluent of the Somes. Where we get through the river we climb a little to the left and a loop-way gets us to a lookout having a height of 1349 meter.
After we get through a big blaster area we get to the Cuptor cave. After another blaster region we get to the Somes vale. We get on its other side. Attention! The blaze takes here to the forest and its followed by a hard slope up! Rightwards we may see the Palace of Balcazar cave, with a length of 75 m, without any concretion. After another stone-slide of 200 meter a loop-way gets us down to the water of Somes. From there we may see the Somes pass as the water forces its way through the narrow pass.
We get back to the blaze and after a while another loop-way goes to the Small Tunnel cave. In this also disappears a stream! We may follow only a 100 meter section of it, then it disappears under the tower rock. We get back to the path and after a short period of time we get the Somesul Cald vale and the Radeasa circuit is closed.
