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Maybe my best and most beautiful slovakian biketour was finished in the last day before arriving at Budapest in 1998 because of a fault in manufacture in the tyre.

Crossing the Carpathians by bike 1999

Gyorgyigabor
2004-02-05 19:58:20

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struggling on the 1,2 km long climb to the 1056m high pass like in 1993, in my first tour. Reaching Poprad we lived our memories again. The „famous” and fantastic panorama of the Tatra was this time a little bit humid. After having rest in a confectioner’s of Poprad we went on biking towards Nova Lesna, where we had good experiences with spending our nights there. We got a whole level of a house.

5th day, Excursion in the High-Tatra: After our last, seventh tourmate arrived by car at night, we decided to go for a hike to between the mountains. From the upper station of the cable railway we were going in a fir tree forest, but to the Lake Velické (in the height of 1665m) we arrived between dwarf fir trees. Huge number of flowers coloured the land; it was beautiful. At the end of the lake there was a waterfall. We climbed towards the 2200m high Polsky saddle between two high peaks: the Gerlachovsky and the Slavkovsky peaks. A few of our group became a little bit tired so I had time to take a half hour long lay-by to the 2428m high Little-Visoka peak. From the Polsky saddle we got a wonderful view down to the valley towards Poland: between the peaks – which had some snow on it – there was the Frozen Lake.Not only its name was frozen. The third of the lake was really frozen (photo). We descended a little bit, then we left the lake and started to climb on a crumbling path to the 2288m high Prielom saddle. Although the route was helped by fix chain, we met with a few unexperienced tourists who felt too much fear so went very slowly. After the pass, in the other valley one of our mates did daring sliding on the snow. Because our slowing and tiring – after a long sloping walk – we arrived at the cable railway station at about 8 pm.

6th day, Excursion in the Slovensky raj: : I planned an excursion for the next day too, but I also planned a light day. I wanted to show a romantic, rocky canyon of the Slovensky raj ...