Things to do
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Bâlea Lake
The car park at the top is small and fills by mid morning through the summer. Arriving before ten is the difference between a lake and a queue, and the weekend crush runs from about eleven until three.
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Transfăgărășan
The closure everyone quotes applies to one section, between the waterfall and Piscu Negru, and not to the whole road. Outside the summer window the drive is still on, it is simply shorter and stops below the snow line.
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Bâlea Waterfall
The largest waterfall in the Făgăraș, dropping about 60 metres below the cable car station, with a marked path to its foot from the lower road. It is at its heaviest in June when the snow above is going.
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Cârța Monastery
The ruins of a Cistercian abbey founded about 1202, dissolved in 1474, with the choir still roofed and in use as the village Lutheran church and the nave standing open to the sky. It is the furthest east the order built.
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Moldoveanu Peak
The highest mountain in the country at 2,544 metres, on the Făgăraș ridge, reached on a long approach from the north or as part of the multi day ridge traverse. There is no lift and no shortcut.