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The Prahova Valley is a wide, deep cleft carved by the Prahova River into the granite of the southern Carpathians.
It is a corridor between Transylvania and Walachia, an ancient route that is traversed
today by the railway and a major road. Its breathtaking scenery and pervading sense of
history make it a major tourist attraction.
The Prahova Valley, in the realm of the Bucegi Massif, is an unforgettable display of
the splendors nature most generously holds out. The impression is overwhelming when
stepping in its kingdom. The bare Bucegi Massif towers over the forested Prahova Valley
with their splendid, various forms. The lines drawn on the sky by their calm, simple
crests are in harmony with the Furnica (2 103 m), Jepii Mici (2 148 m), Jepii Mari
(2 071 m), Caraiman (2 284 m), Costila (2 498 m) and Vanturis (1 942 m) high peaks.
More than anywhere else, the Bucegi Mountains display their entire splendor at Busteni.
The Caraiman, with its monumental Cross dedicated to the glory of the First World War
heroes and the pointed Costila peak, also called "the rock climbers' paradise", look
like immense opal shadows melting leisurely away in the dimness of the evening hours.
On the Bucegi Plateau nature, magnificent in all its aspects, spreads out widely as if
limitlessly. In wintertime, up here, the vast white expanses of immaculate snow which
last till late in the spring shine dazzlingly, whereas in summer the mountain is enlivened
by the red flowers of rhododendrons. A little longer halt at the Piatra Arsa, Babele,
Furnica and the Omul Peak chalets helps the mountaineer to alleviate the accumulated climbing fatigue.
