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At 4 am on 26th july 1997 the most people had already been sleeping. Two boys from Szolnok ...
An adventurous bicycletour to the Tatra (1997)
Gyorgyigabor2004-02-05 20:06:24
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just like a skanzen / village-museum. As we left the area and the fir trees were changed by leafy forests we changed our long armed clothes for light jerseys too. We were bicycling back into the summer Thanks for our good speed, in the afternoon we could dry our clothes on the beach of the slovakian Oravsky lake. We took our clothes onto the grids of a boathouse. The pleasant wind dried our clothes, sleeping-bags, and tent in a few hours.
In the following day we could took delight in the castle of Orava, that was built onto a steep rock. We went on cycling in the flat valley of the Orava river to Dolny Kubin, the town that I can remember because of its nice flowery bridge. After we left the town we had to hurry to under the roof of a bus station; we had a fast shower. To arrive to Terchova, the center of the Small / Little Fatra we needed our last efforts to climb a 12-14% steep ascent. As we saw some tables that prohibitted a lot of things because of the National Park, we decided to sleep outside of it. After a breakfast in the sunny square, we was biking through the nice, romantic, rocky Vratna canyon in sunshine and under blue sky. I found it one of the most beautiful place during our tour A stream was plashing (csobog) next to the road, and some green fir trees made the land variable with the white rocks. Although for that day we planned only 90 km cycling without any serious climb, so we didn’t have to hurry, we left the kilometers fast. Next to the Strecno fortress we crossed the Vah river on a thin pedestrian bridge. After an hour cycling on the busy main road along the river we arrived at Martin. In the evening we arrived at the next National Park, to the Big Fatra. In the following morning I could admire the rocky canyon, where I also enjoyed the vegetation very much. There I could see so many versionS of the green colour. The sunshine through the leaves and the voices of the stream made it more interesting and fantastic. For
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