Hiking Trips Romania: Bucegi Mountains

Hiking Trips Romania – The Bucegi Massif, with an area of about 300 km2, has an open horseshoe shape to the south, from the centre of which the Ialomita River flows.

It is the most visited tourist destination in the Romanian Carpathians, with more than one million tourists being attracted to the area every year. There are 2 cable car routes from Busteni – Babele – Pestera, and from Sinaia – Cota 1400 – Cota 2000. Two access roads run almost the entire surface of the massif. There are more than 20 marked tourist trails that cross the entire massif.

Bucegi has many points of interest: Coltii Morarului; Cross of the Heroes on Caraiman Mountain; Urlatoarea Waterfall; Sphinx; Babele; Horoabei Gorge; Ialomite Cave; Tatar Gorge; Zanoagei Gorge, Gaura Valley are just a few of them. Many of them may not sound familiar to you, but each has it’s own uniqueness.

The legends of the place

Hiking Trips Romania will give you the opportunity to find out about the legends of the mountain. The massif is steeped in legends and mysteries that incite the imagination, such as: the existence of a secret network of tunnels; the secret of the Izvor Tunnel linking Prahova and Dambovita; the mysteries surrounding the Sphinx and the Babele; Gura de Rai – a magical place where fatigue suddenly disappears; the „living water” of the 7 springs waterfall; the unreal path where people disappear without a trace; the hot stones at Gura Diham; the mysteries of the hundreds of earthquakes in Bucegi since 1993 and so forth.

The highest permanently populated place in Romania

The Omu peak in the north of the massif is the highest point in the Bucegi Mountains and the highest permanently populated place in Romania. Officially, the Omu peak is 2,505 meters high. If the height of the boulder at the summit is included, it would bring the height of the peak to 2,514 meters.

There is a second Omu Peak, located in the Suhard Mountains. The Bucegi Massif awaits you. If you want to choose one of the Hiking Trips Romania, you can definitely consider discovering the Bucegi Mountains. With their breathtaking beauty, they will surely enchant you.