The Natural Reservation Huda lui Papara
The Natural Reservation Huda lui Papara has a special spelunking, because it cumulates all the superlatives for this mountain group and not only: the longest, the least leveled, the most difficult, the one with the largest hall, with the largest gallery, with the longest sub terrain course, with the highest debit, with the biggest waterfall, with the most numerous habitation of bats from Europe.
The cave is situated on the territory of the village Sub Piatra, Alba County, in the North-Western side of Trascau Mountains. The cave is a hydrologic perforation of the limestone in the Western extremity of Bedeleu Massive. The entrance in the cave is situated on an absolute altitude of 567 meters oriented to the North, North-West, being almost 40 m high and the gallery having a height of 100 m.
The name of the cave means “shelter” or “the house of the religious ruler”. The cave was used as a living place and cult place during the daci people. The name was taken over to Latin and in Romanian it resulted into Huda lui Papara.
It is not arranged and hard to be accessed. It is recommended that the tourists should visit the cave only until they arrive at the Sala Minunilor and only in the places where the water is not deep, in order to avoid accidents. The illumination is necessary, long rubber boots, a rope to cross the Evantai Waterfall.
Photo galery
