Primary Beech Forest and Mountain Scenery Hike- Prisacina
Prisăcina - UNESCO protected beech forest - Prislop saddle - Cerbului peak - back to Prislop saddle - Poiana Corbului - Prisăcina - (or long option: Varful Arjana - Zascol / Biliana - Dobraia - Prisăcina)
You leave the village of Prisăcina and follow the old, narrow dirt road (red triangle), which leads uphill between the pastures and meadows under old, sometimes ghostly-looking ancient beech trees. Later, the path enters a beech forest, which becomes wilder and wilder the further you get away from the hamlet. You reached the UNESCO-protected old growth beech forest of the World Heritage Site! You hike through the old and picturesque beech forest uphill. The impressions in the forest with its huge old beech trees, monumental dead trees and moss-covered roots are really impressive and will stay in your memory.
After a few bends, you reach the pleasant, panoramic alpine meadows of the Prislop saddle. On the left is the junction with the yellow-dotted path that leads to the summit of Cerbului (1446; marking: yellow dot, red bar). From the flat little summit you have an even more beautiful view. On a clear day, there is a great panoramic view of the Mehedinti ridge, the Cerna ridge, the Tarcu Mountains, the peaks above Prisăcina and the old beech forests down in the Cerna Valley.
From here you can either ...
- turn back to the Prislop saddle and take the path marked with a yellow dot (turn right) to descend towards Poiana Corbului (meadow) and later to the road to Prisacina.
- or continue to the Varful Arjana summit (1511 m; yellow dot, red bar) and from there either return or descend via the Zascol and Biliana summits (long hike; some climbing passages, mountain hiking experience / surefootedness required!) to the road (Poiana Lunga) and hike back to Prisacina via Dobraia (red dot, a rather long hike) ...
This path also leads through ancient, UNESCO-protected beech forests. The tour is particularly recommended in Mai / Juni (fresh greenery) or September / Oktober ("explosion" of color in the beech forest)!
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