Thermal Camping

Busy day today...

We were up early in order to get to the nearby Salina Turda salt mine, a somewhat weird experience but recommended by our campsite hosts. The salt mine itself was quite impressive, mainly covering two very large underground caverns about 100m deep. However, someone had the bright idea of filling these caverns with a mix of table tennis tables, pool tables, a ferris wheel ( not working today unfortunately), rowing boats, and various activities for children. Very odd.

We tried the rowing boats (I mean, how often do you get the chance to row around a salt mine?) and then left.

Then on to the Crișului Repede Gorge where we did a walk and had lunch. By this time it was very hot (about 33 or 34 degrees) and the second half of the walk was in full sunshine along an abandoned railway line.

Then across the border into Hungary (our 12th country on this trip) and on to Thermal Camping in Debrecen, where we get free access to the spa next door as part of the camp site fee.

This afternoon, that seemed like a really bad deal because the spa was very busy and full of teenagers being teenagers. But when the spa shut at 7pm, it turned out that we still has access, so we pretty much had the swimming pool and various smaller hot pools (full of very dark coloured, but presumably very healthy, water) to ourselves. Result.Read more