Descente en radeau - Raft ride ; 29/05/05
This "river" ride follows our excursion through the mountainous range, since it is no less than the way back. Here is the Mecque of the raftmen. Local highlanders formerly transported wood this way down the valley to sell it in the plain, sometimes even until the Baltic sea (which explains the little shells decorating their hats), and they propose it to tourists since 1832, between Sromowce Niżne et Szczawnica, where we left our car parked in the campsite. This is the way we came back to our starting point. Raftmen is for sure a tough job that requires a lot of experience, but also a certain charism, in order to comment the ride during 2h. Ours was particularly nice, punctuating the descent with jokes and legends, between 2 peak names. That's a pity that the Dunajec gorges last "only" 15 km. It is a concentrate of beauty, a masterpiece of nature, whose secret is kept only by a complex geology.
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