After we had spent a night in the mountain rescue hut, we started the day with a visit to a cave. The Ialomitei cave is 1660 m long and has an old monastery build right at the entrance of it. It was nice to see it, but my interest for caves is always lower on hiking trips. The hikes are the main thing, the main focus, everything else is just white noise.
On the way to the monastery and the cave
In the cave there was a lot of water
After the visit to the cave we started to go back over the mountain. The weather was fine and it was quite hot. We saw some dark clouds in the distance but hoped for the best. It was an easier hike on the way back, not so steep, not so much of a trail, it felt like we mostly just walked on fields. Again - lots of animals around us. We stopped for lunch at the peak. We didn’t sit there for very long, before we realized that some bad weather would arrive shortly. Our guide, Lucian, didn’t even allow me to prepare myself completely before we took off. He took my back-pack, so we could save some seconds. The reason for this is of course the danger to be on the top of the mountain when there is a thunderstorm. Most of us didn’t even have the time to put on the full rain-gear (in other words - all of didn’t manage to put on the rain trousers). We walked quite quickly back/down-hill. The rain poured down and after a while we got some hail storms. It was an exciting hike. You need to have this kind of hikes in between. The problem was that everyone who didn’t have the trousers on now had soaking wet hiking boots, since the rain poured right down in them. I belonged to the lucky few, but I was still quite wet. No rain gear in the world can protect you completely when it is raining as much as it did.
Cute donkeys on the way up the mountain
And again cows close to our trail
Just before the thunderstorm arrived
In the end of the hike, when the rain had stopped, we walked through some amazing trails in the forrest. Soft nice trails with a little bit of down hill. I couldn’t help myself and started to run, even though I had my back-pack and hiking boots on. I then realized that my body needed a run. I needed to stretch my legs and I decided to start the next morning with a short run.
After the hike we took the bus to our next destination; A lovely little place which was more of a home-stay. The dinner was an amazing home-cooked meal, where one of the sons in the house decided to play key-board for us. Suddenly it felt like we were on party at a friend’s house. The hostess showed us how to dance and my friend Erika (who is a good dancer) joined her on the dance floor. It was an amazing evening. One of those you will always remember.
The son of the house playing for us
Erika dancing with our hostess
The next morning I did what I had planned to do and went for a run, 5 km together with the neighbor’s dog.:-) It felt absolutely amazing. It was the first time ever when I run on the same day as I hiked. It will not he the last.
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