The vertical walls
300 metres of limestone above the stream.
Ana Maria Catalina — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cristian Bortes www.eyeem.com/bortescristian from Cluj-Napoca, Romania — CC BY 2.0 · JøMa — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ana Maria Catalina — CC BY-SA 3.0
The main trail is flat and easy for all; only the rim path is for the experienced. Trainers suffice in dry weather.
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A limestone gorge three hundred metres deep and three kilometres long: Turda Gorge cuts through the western Transylvanian mountains with vertical walls, caves and timber bridges crossing the Hășdate stream repeatedly on a flat, easy trail everyone walks in two hours there and back — among rare flowers, eagles circling the rims and climbers on the walls. The entrance is at Cheile village (Petreștii de Jos) with parking and a small restaurant; the marked trail follows the stream to the far end at the gorge café, from which walkers return or climb to the rims on a longer path. Spring is green with waterfalls, autumn golden. It lies 40 km from Cluj and fifteen minutes by car from the salt mine, so the pair make one ideal day: mine in the morning, gorge after lunch — the best day trip in northern Transylvania.
300 metres of limestone above the stream.
Crossing the stream again and again.
Circling the rims above the climbers.
Cheile Turzii, Petreștii de Jos