Rainy ride

When we woke up, it was raining. So we stayed a bit longer in the tent. Once it stopped, we quickly packed up and descended to Miercurea Ciuc where we had our breakfast in the town center.
As soon as we finished our breakfast, it started raining again. So we had to continue our ride with full rain gear on. Our destination was Santa Ana Lake, the only crater lake in Romania. We could already see the volcano from the valley when we had a short bright moment.
After we passed the tourist village of Tusnad, the climb to the rim of the Crater started. As well as the really bad rain. We had to stop twice in order to hide under our tarp as the rain was too heavy to continue cycling. Finally, we reached the crater lake, a beautiful spot even in the rain. Unfortunately, we didn't see any bears. They probably hide in the rain as well.
There was a campground at the rim of the lake. The weather wasn't really inviting to camp, but it was late already and more cycling in heavy rain didn't appeal to us either. Plus, the guard was really nice, gave us a discount and promised to fire the oven so we could have a hot shower (I think he felt pity for us soaked cyclists).
We bought some Langos at the food stall and cooked dinner before we had a short window to pitch the tent. After the best hot shower ever, we directly went into our sleeping bags to hide from the nasty rain again.Leia mais