Bâlea Lake

Ice Hotel

The Balea Lake (also Balea Lake, Romanian Lacul Bâlea, Romanian place name also Balea Lac, Hungarian Bilea -tó ) is a glacial lake in the Romanian Carpathians.

Location

The lake is located in the Fagaras Mountains on the high street Transfogaraschen ( Transfagarasan ) between the mountains negoiu and Moldoveanu, the two highest mountains in the Romanian Carpathians. The lake is around 77 km from Sibiu, 68 km from the town of Fagaras and 85 km from Curtea de Arges.

Environment

The Transfogarasche high road is passable only in summer to Balea Lake. During the rest of the lake is only accessible by cable car from the north from Balea Waterfall ( Balea Cascada ) from.

The area around the lake offers guaranteed snow until June. In addition to small natural slopes around the Bâlea hut there is also a 10 km long descent to the Balea waterfall.

The leading down from the lake to the north section of Transfogarascher high street is named road in the clouds, because that leads down writhing in serpentine road sometimes seems to end up in the clouds, which lie above the valley.

Bâlea Hut and Ice Hotel

On a small peninsula in the lake, the managed Bâlea hut that serves as both a popular tourist destination as well as a base for hiking in the surrounding mountains is located. In the immediate vicinity of the first ice hotel in Eastern Europe was established in winter 2006. The hotel was built in the shape of an igloo sleeps 16.