In the heart of Transylvania - The magic place of Colibita Lake-The sea from the mountain
Dear Steemit Friends,
I haven't been very active at the beginning of this week but I want to start this week's writing with an article that I prepared for some time now, an article about a magical place that I am lucky enough to live quite close to it.
The place is at around 50 km away from the city of Bistrita,a city from the north of Romania and has a significant impact on any visitor that sticks around it enough to see its beautiful values and feel its benefits on the heath.
Colibita's name comes from "colibele ciobanilor" or translated "The Shepherds huts" because of its beginnings when only a couple of shepherds were taking care of their seeps in a small village between the mountains.
A short history of this place:
🔴 Around the beginning of the 19th century this place was barely considered a small village situated at around 800 meters altitude, between Calimani Mountains and Bargau Mountains which are some subgroup of the Carpathian Mountains.
Back then in 1850 there were less than 20 villagers of which main occupation was shepherding their sheep.
Around 1869 a main road has been developed creating a connection between the small village and another main villages at a lower altitude.
🔴 In 1883 a young lady declares that she was curated of Tuberculosis (TB) which is an infectious disease of the lungs, just by living for a certain time around this amazing place and just by breathing the fresh air from this mountains. After many years studies have found that the air in this location is extremely rich in ozone which has an important positive potention on the lungs diseases.
🔴 Around 1898 the first railway was implemented to create a connection between the city of Bistrita and the edge of this small village Coibita following to develop later around 1920 a narrow railway to go directly to the village for wood transportation.
With that being done, the small village has increased its inhabitants number and the village has grown until
🔴 In 1923, the qualities of the air full of ozone form the village is finally recognized and a sanatorium is built to curate students with lungs issues. Unfortunately the sanatorium is burned down later, around 1940.
🔴 With all that being developed, the village got more and more inhabitants until 1980 when the authorities decided to develop an accumulation lake with the purpose to produce electricity to sustain the area and to have water supplies for the entire city of Bistrita. By the end of 1980 the small village of Colibita disappeared from the map of Romania and after hundreds of years the villagers were moved from their homes. Today if you take a ride with the boat over the lake you can still see sometimes the peak of the old village church and some taller trees.
The developing of the accumulation lake was not a disaster as expected by some people, but a success, as more and more people have settled around the lake and in 2017 the village of Colibita became a touristic resort which allows many people form Romania and other countries to benefit from the amazing healthy air that can nowhere be found in Romania.
From this amazing place you can also take a variety of routes to visit other interesting locationsand if you ask yourself what could you do while you visit the lake, well, you can practice mountain biking, Kayak canoe, climbing and fishing.
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great pictures
Thank you @sairahamdan !!
I grew up in the middle of mountains so I really appreciate those photos. Nature looks amazing
check out my sunset pictures
https://steemit.com/photography/@coupeborgward/amazing-outback-emu-is-joining-us-for-the-campfire-silhouette-photo-1500936435-2419686
Thank you for appreciating. Your article is great as well. I just checked it.
nice photo
Thank you very much @mostafa1983 !
Amazing sunrise on the first picture. Only the pictures get me some incredible feelings, so I wont miss the chance to visit the lake and take the chance to enjoy fishing around there.
Thank you mate ! Really appreciate your support.
Tomorrow I'll travel to Transsylvania (Varșag) to see this beautiful area.
This is great @kalemandra ! You have a great opportunity to see this place as Varsag is not too far from Colibita Lake.
Beautiful post! I would love to go there. Where does the vampire association come from with Transylvania?
The association comes from a Romanian king or leader called Vlad the Impaler. He used to be very cruel with rich and unfair people from Romania. Based on that idea a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker was written with Dracula as main character. You can search more on the internet, but the main association is like I said. Actually, the novel was written at a place quite near to the lake I presented.
Thanks! I know about Vlad, Stoker, and Dracula but I've never read it and didn't realize that's where it was set. I just think it's funny that, here in America, most will think of such a beautiful place as dark, gloomy castles. I bet a lot of tourists ask you about that!
Yes I think that is the first think that people know about Romania or the region of Transylvania. Even if they do not know anything about Romania they know about Dracula and that Transylvania is Dracula's land.
Beautiful place, I love mountain lakes and also the changing colors on the leaves of the trees. I had a coworker from Romania who told me how great the landscape is and how nice the people are. Is it easy to travel knowing only English? I look forward to going sometime
Yes it is easy with English. I often have customers from Europe who visit us with business purpose but after work we spend time around giving them the chance to see how beautiful Romania land is. If you have the chance, do not miss it, the costs to travel and spend some time here would be also quite low. And if you need any support while you are here then I'll be happy to help as much as possible.
The first picture-taking ahead of sunset color mix is fairly neat.
Adjust the picture (4) and the water clear, but the position of the moving water as you can catch highlights.(6) the sun has straight crisp exterior.
Images (2/3) besides the level of the remaining contestants are good pictures.
These are some great opinions and advice. Thank you very much.