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The Mihailecu ridge is scattered with lapiés, limestone forms carved by water.
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Lake Vinderel is the largest mountain lake in Maramureș, above 1,600 m.
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The Șuligu spring has been valued for its curative qualities since the nineteenth century and was once bottled for the home market.
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In front of the spring you can see a travertine deposit, rock laid down by the mineral water itself.
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It is the only marked cycling route in the park, with a red letter C on a white ground.
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The range on the Peștilor valley is a former military firing range.
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The route starts from Paltin station, one of the narrow-gauge train's stops on the Vaser valley.
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Along it you meet plant and animal species that have vanished from other parts of Europe.
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The Măcârlău dam is a stone dam built in 1850 for floating timber, the only one of its kind in the country.
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The side gallery at the 23 August mine runs 4,600 m and crosses the massif into the Ivășcoaia valley.
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The Preluca Cerbului ridge is crossed through dwarf pine, the scrub that grows only at altitude.
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The Prislop Pass, at 1,416 m, is the highest road pass in the Eastern Carpathians.
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The daffodil meadow at Tomnatec Sehlean is one of the few wild daffodil meadows in Maramureș.
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Five hundred metres from the Paltinu cabin, across the valley, there is a built mineral spring, a borcut.
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From the rock you see the Vișeu gorge, the village of Bistra and the right bank of the Tisa, in Ukraine.
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The area around Tocarnea Peak has caves and shafts, carved into limestone.
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The summer shelters in the clearings are pastoral huts used only during the grazing season.
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On the ridge between Certina and Vâjii the route runs alongside the red triangle marking.
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The route passes the spoil heap of the Dealul Bucății gallery, a trace of the mining in the area.
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For part of the way it runs together with the red stripe marking coming from the Prislop Pass.
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„The war road” is a cobbled track following the crest, left from the time of the border fortifications.
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The route connects with the ridge of the Rodnei Mountains, used by those who then descend the Vaser valley.
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From the saddle before the lake you see for the first time the pyramid of the Farcău massif, the highest in the Maramureș Mountains.
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The path crosses several torrential springs before the lake.
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On the way, to the right of the saddle, you can see a snowmelt lake.
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It is the shortest way in to Lake Vinderel.
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Valea Vișeului lies only 6 km from the geographical centre of Europe.
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The Vișeu gorge, 4.5 km long, is a habitat for the huchen, the largest salmonid in mountain waters.
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Pietrosu Bardăului Peak has the widest view over the Maramureș Mountains.
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On the summit plateau there are small pools of water, left from the melting snow.
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The Mihoaia spring is a natural sparkling water, valued by locals for its taste.
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The spring is built into a ciutură, a trough hollowed out of wood.
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From this route you can cross to the next one by a 9 km link, past Dealul Seci, the hamlet of Obcina and Maxim Peak.
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