Apuseni Mountains day 3, Ruginoasa Pit and Bears Cave

Hello Steemians, after we visit Scarisoara Ice Cave on day 2, today we got two new attractions from Apuseni Mountains: Ruginoasa Pit and Bears Cave.

Ruginoasa Pit is a huge ravine of 600 meters in diameter and 100 meters deep, with rust-coloured tears.

The area is around 200000 meters squre, and the volume of eroded material over time is estimated at about 7 million cubic meters.

Ruginoasa Pit was formed by rain erosion that reveal quartzite minerals. The landscape is a geological reservation.

Also close to Ruginoasa Pit I found a nice and small river.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to make pictures inside of Bears Cave because in order to do this I should have paid a photography tax and I didn't knew about that. But I found blackberry flowers.

Bears Cave was discovered in 1975 at 482 meters altitude. It is 1500 meters long, but only around 500 meters are visitable.

Bears Cave has this name because inside of it were found over 100 cave bear's skeletons.

The temperature in the cave is around 10° Celsius in any season and hummidity around 97%. The cave has 3 rooms: Bears Room, Emil Racovita Room and Candles Room.

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