My hike yesterday can't really be called a Blue Trail, because we followed the blue sign, but we didn't touch at least two stamp sites. However, the distance covered was almost the same as if we had gone from Kevély-nyereg to Pilisszentkereszt. So I will be returning here, as there is still much beauty and excitement to be found in this area.
This time I didn't go alone, but with a very old friend who is almost the same age as me. She guided me because she has known the area for a long time.
Our first stop was the buffet in Pilisborosjenő, where we had coffee and then visited the lavender garden. Well, the flowers had been harvested long ago, but homemade lavender products were available.
From here, after only a few minutes' walk, we reached "Teve" ("Camel") Rock, where there were lots of tourists. Most of them had just come out here and didn't go any further. So I hardly have any photos of this without people in them.
The rock owes its strange shape to the fact that it is much harder than the surrounding dolomite. Many millions of years ago there were heat sources here, and the silicon dissolved in them permeated the dolomite bedrock, making that part much harder.
There was once a quarry here, which makes the geological layers very visible. The upper, red part is sandstone colored by iron oxide .
The quarrymen dug cavities in the stone wall and then nature reclaimed it.
Nearby is another small but very beautiful stone formation.
From here we headed up to the Kevély saddle. The road was comfortable at first, with soft ground, but as we got higher up it got steeper and steeper, and rocky. I wanted to get a closer look at a cave, but the ground was so rolling that I turned back.
When we reached the Kevély saddle, we sat down in a clearing and had lunch. There were a lot of tourists here, and maybe even more dogs!
We noticed that one of the chestnut trees is in blossom again and has fresh leaves.
Following the blue sign we found some handsome mushrooms, but of course we left them alone.
We were going at a slow pace, so we had time to contemplate. But even so, after less than an hour we came out of the forest and saw Csobanka. This is a beautiful village at the foot of Mount Kevély. We could have continued on the blue sign towards Pilisszentkereszt, but then we decided to see the village and from there we would travel towards Budapest. It was a good choice for transport.
I captured some beauty in the village.
The bus from here to Pomaz left every hour, and we had almost an hour to go, so we walked several stops to the Pomaz junction.
We were walking on the side of the road and it was quite busy, but not nearly as busy as the main road we came out on. A building that once saw better days is now in ruins at the end of Csobánka. Sadly, this is how beautiful old houses are becoming deserted all over the country.
Our tour ended here, we boarded the bus to Pomaz, but we covered the distance of only a few kilometres quite slowly. There was serious traffic congestion, as always, in the hiking season, at the weekend. It's hard to get back from nature to the rush of the big city.