UNESCO World Heritage Wilderness Hike - Prisăcina Valley and Cerna Mountains
Prisăcina hamlet - UNESCO protected beech forest - Prislop saddle - Cusmita peak - Șaua Ciumerna (saddle) - Cracu Mare - Prisăcina valley
This is a very beautiful but rather long hike. However, you can shorten the route by turning around at the Șaua Ciumerna saddle and descending via the ascent route. You leave the village of Prisăcina and follow the 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 beech old beech forest of the World Heritage Site! You hike through the old and picturesque beech forest uphill.
After a few bends, you reach the pleasant, panoramic alpine meadows of the Prislop saddle. Here, you turn to the right and follow the trail with the red bar marking in direction Cusmita peak and later to Șaua Ciumerna (saddle). From the alpine pastures you have plenty of beautiful views to the mountains around and to Cerna valley.
At the Șaua Ciumerna saddle, turn right again and take the path with the red dot marking - in the direction of Cracu Mare and Inelet. The path follows the right-hand ridge (views of magnificent old beech forests) and leads downhill to the cultivated terraces between Cracu Mare and Inelet. At the junction with trail between Prisacina and Inelet you turn right and follow the path with red dot / yellow dot on direction Prisacina valley. After a beautiful walk across meadows with lots of views, you reach a wonderful, sometimes rather wild beech forest with some very old veteran trees. Later, the path leads down to the stream in the Prisacina valley. Here you will find wonderful refreshment on hot days! Now it's not far to Prisacina ...
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