I proposed that in two days I would cross two of the most beautiful roads in Romania. Transalpina on the first day and on the second day on Transfagarasan. I started from home on time because I didn’t have a long way to go and I wanted to enjoy every curve on the Transalpina. To get to the mountain road faster, I chose to go on the highway. So that I arrived relatively quickly on the road that precedes the Transalpina. The weather was beautiful, towards lunch it started to get warmer outside, considering that when I left home it was about 14 degrees Celsius…. I made a stop in a village where I had a drink of water and then I set off bravely on the road. It wasn’t crowded so I was able to get around quite easily. After a few kilometers we arrived at Taul Bistra lake. This is where the Transalpina begins. I stopped for some pictures and to admire the dam and then I left. In the first phase, you will see that the road is not spectacular. Curves, forest, but there were no landscapes that would take your breath away. I also passed by Obarsia Lotrului where I didn’t stop at all because from what I could see without getting off the motorcycle, almost all the shops and kiosks were closed. I was there during the week and there really weren’t many tourists on the trail… As I was walking like that and waiting for the beautiful landscape to appear, I realized that something was wrong. The indicators kept pointing to “Petrosani”… a locality that I was rapidly approaching. I turned right and met a lady who had been picking mushrooms. I asked her if I was going well and the lady explained to me that I had to pick her up at an intersection (which escaped me from so much admiration..) Curious to see how far I had to go to where I had to turn, I wanted to look at the GPS…. The bad part is that I had no GSM signal and the GPS on the motorcycle didn’t connect to anything either… . I then resorted to the old school, the paper map 🙂 I realized that I didn’t go too far so I turned back and after a few kilometers I found the intersection I missed. Again a sign with Transalpina announcing that the road will be closed from October 29. (in the meantime, the authorities have decided that the road will not be closed anymore, but if you go on it and get stuck, you will pay to be helped) Little by little the landscape began to change and mountains appeared. The road started to be more curved and quite steep in some parts. On the way I also found a traditional stall where I ate a mutton stew with polenta and a pancake with plum jam. I then started more slowly because I was quite full from so much food and after a few kilometers I found a nice offroad road. I went on it, not very much because the stones on it were a bit sharp and I really didn’t feel like making a rubber wedge. I then turned from the offroad road and continued on asphalt. I stopped to raise the drone, to take more pictures…to admire the mountains…and it took a few hours to lose on the Transalpina and I reached its end, in the town of Novaci. That’s how it was on the Transalpina. The next day I will go on Transfagarasan, a road that was labeled by Top Gear as “the most beautiful road in the world”. We’ll see but…who am I to contradict them? 🙂 According to Wikipedia: Transalpina[1] (DN 67C) is a national road in the Parâng Mountains, in the Southern Carpathians. It is the highest road in Romania, having the highest point in Pasul Urdele (at 2,145 m). The road connects the towns of Novaci in Gorj County and SebeÈ™ in Alba County. Being a mountain road, it is closed during the winter. The Transalpina crosses four counties – Gorj, Vâlcea, Sibiu, Alba – crossing the Parâng Mountains from south to north, with the highest altitude on a section of approximately 20 km, in Gorj and Vâlcea counties, where it presents itself as a ” the ridge road”,[2] passing at a short distance from the peaks of Dengheru (2,084 m), PăpuÈ™a (2,136 m), Urdele (2,228 m), Iezer (2,157 m) and Muntinu (2,062 m). https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transal…
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