Cycling the Transagarasan -- before Jeremy Clarkson
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Uploaded by rupertwolfemurray on Aug 6, 2009
Some snaps from a couple of cycle tours over Romania's Fagaras mountain range, on a remarkable road (the "transfagarasan") which gets up to 2000m before plunging back down into Dracula's home patch on the other side. A helluva ride. This road was recently featured by the Top Gear crew who drove it in 3 supercars. Jeremy Clarkson became rather lyrical. He said "That's the most amazing road I've ever seen...From above it looks like every great corner from every great racetrack in the world has been knitted together to create one unbroken grey ribbon of automotive perfection."
If you don't have a supercar but you do have a bike (and you're in Bucharest) I suggest you get the train to Curtea de Arges, then ride to the base of the mountain (Cabana Capra) where you can sleep. On day two you can ride over the top, fly down the north side (Sibiu County). There is a train line at the bottom of the hill on the north/Sibiu side, but when I was last there it had been washed out by the heavy rains. Most people do this drive in the car, but the tunnel through the mountain pass is only open in July and August (unless you are Jeremy Clarkson).
Music was gratefully copied from Sting and Edin Karamazov (thanks guys, send me an invoice).
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this is really great
gbtekkie 2 years ago