The ancient gods
Apart from being wild and mysterious, these forests also hide a certain number of beautiful mammals known as large carnivores: wolves, bears and European lynx. Their presence is favoured by the existence of large surfaces of natural woodland, by the “not so high” number of people actually living in Romania, and probably the most important, by the sense of space most of these people still preserve in their heads, and that I call a preference for freedom instead of security. As a consequence, the presence of wildlife is something you feel constantly while hiking these mountains, accompanied by another very precious feeling: that of the lack of borders to these wild spaces. And that makes this wilderness in the heart of Europe unique for us: five minutes away from a sunny meadow where a twelve year old girl rakes the hay, lies THE FOREST: deep, wild, never ending, mysterious, teeming with old gods, like bears and wild boars and eagles. To fully understand what we talk about, better be around in December or March, when the snow is here: it’s the animal tracking season.
