A few hours hike to Scropoasa Lake in the middle of the Bucegi Mountains, Romania
I am glad to have you as visitors of my post, as I wrote in the last post in this community I visited two amazing places in the Bucegi National Park in Romania, in the last post I wrote about the 7 Springs Waterfall where the purest water in the world springs from, and in today's post I want to share with you the hike I did at Lake Scropoasa.
Lake Scropoasa is an artificial lake created to produce electricity, it was built in 1929 has a length of 2.5km and a maximum depth of 15 meters (more information can be found here).
I did some searches on the internet and found quite a lot of information on how to get to the lake, at least in recent years Lake Scropoasa has been very visited especially for the turquoise color of its water, that's what we were hoping to find here, but as I wrote in the last post the weather didn't hold with us.
The starting point for the hike to the lake is from the Zanoaga hut, surprise when we got there everything was a construction site, it seems that they were building a new bridge over the river, the car was somewhere on the side of the road.
It gave us little trouble to find the right way to the forest entrance, we walked along the side of the road then crossed a river and through abandoned buildings until we passed the Zanoaga campsite which at first glance looks abandoned.
The cottages in the campsite look very nice but as I wrote above I haven't seen anyone here but dogs, I can't figure out the reason why this place is a ghost.
Ready we are on the right track and start hiking through the forest on rocky paths, at the beginning of the trail we saw many information signs about the animals that we could probably see in the forest, I was a little scared when I saw the sign warning us about the presence of bears.
The difficulty of the trail is medium, honestly I didn't find it harder than that to go in the right direction we had to follow the sign of a blue cross.
The route on the rocky paths took us to a fairytale landscape, after walking for a while we encountered some parts with more difficulty, we had to descend holding on to some chains but there was a spectacular part when we crossed the river on some suspension bridges.
In this picture this very interesting tree caught my eye which is not just like a candle but shows us that not all trees in a forest are the same.
We also drank spring water, we also took it to go, after a hike through the forest a few sips of this clear water are welcome.
Let's continue our hike through the woods.
After more than an hour and a half we arrive near the hydropower station where we find a place where many goodies are prepared.
In this cauldron corn was boiled.
But we chose to eat something traditional, Bulz, bulzul is a ball of mamaliga with salted cheese inside.This mamaliga lump is wrapped in aluminum foil, then placed on the grill.
We had to share our food and with this cute dog, look at the look on his face, we melted.
Let's continue our way to the most famous place for pictures here near the lake.
It is the most sought after bridge from where you can supposedly capture the most beautiful pictures from here, let's see if it is so.
I found the place.
Today, unfortunately, due to the rains, the lake no longer had that turquoise color, but it was still amazing.
I will show you one of the most photographed places in Romania.
My dears, today's hike in the Bucegi National Park has come to an end, by the way, we didn't pay any fee to enter here.
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P.S. The attached pictures you have just seen are taken by me with my mobile phone and Nikon DSLR, and the text is also designed by me.
