- People today do not even they know what they want. All day runs, and do many things, but nothing for the soul, I say gray-bearded monk who sits in his cell all the time when, when the hermitage.
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- will come the hard times in which we may be required to deny God and we will not know who we are. People do not understand that how we live now in this life, we decide the fate of the afterlife. And today, man is the greatest of sins ...
I can already say that we've begun to deny God and may the hard times are already here, because things seem so when you live in Hermitage-vortex outside world is difficult for the soul. He does not really go in the world, but listen in and talk to visitors, but maybe something made him feel and know these things, something I can not understand ...
I've reached after waaaay time when we all heard of these mountains, in-Vanturarita Buila a small part of Skull Mountain, located in Valcea County, Horezu and Olanesti somewhat. No I never realized what fascinated me so much this area - is it strange name or maybe because there are many villages round the pottery (and very much I am interested in ceramics and pottery ...)?
Unfortunately I had only one weekend, but the two days and two nights spent in the area were absolutely sublime! I managed to "steal" a bit of anthropogenic sacred spirit of the area, but also the natural environment. Saturday I went on a journey, from men, at Hermitage entered, until Curmatura Builei (1450 m), ie a point near the middle ridge. Sunday I was at the Bistrita Monastery, where we were served food, I saw the Bat Cave (or St. Gregory Decapolite), we walked a little through Bistrita Gorge, then to the Museum Trovantilor Costesti and that's all that is long way to Bucharest ...
took me about a week to settle my thoughts and impressions about this experience, because almost everything that happened to us was very interesting. I talked to nuns from the Monastery Hurezi forever young, I was at the service Sunday morning, I went through a whole course, although we were all tired and did not think we can gather energy. The route was that whatever you do in nature, mobilizing! Mount this is somewhat like ladder-Belioara, only bigger. Almost not see it until you approach a bit, and beauty is revealed only you start to climb it. In fact, the mountain is not that wonderful? But the specifics of each mountain. I think Buila has a sacred air, indeed, as many people say. Do not know why this thing can not catch him by hand or rationally express in words, but as soon as you feel him there. Trails, woods, colors, image hermitages perched on hills, the silence, the wind ... although outside the convents, and find them all other mountains, but with different meaning. I think the idea that neighborhood with many monasteries and convents that have already become part of the mountain and the mountain as part of their life, give you the feeling of getting closer to God and makes you feel the sacred mountain. I think that's more sacred mountain inside who come here with a certain attitude, perhaps in a way that they would go on a pilgrimage ... We were on a single track route and we had so many signs! Cell monk who guards the hill like a cross time dug in the trunk of a beech old hall for shelter of those who go to the monastery, monks at Patrunsa houses, above a small altar on top, but especially the mountain itself, with trees, rocks, gentians lost summer passes through bizarre rock spiders who weave the threads together and grass ... To see the upper Olt Country and let your imagination carried by wind to distant peaks, already filled with snow ... But above all, to come back at night on a road like in the old tales, or through the forest, the moonlight filtered by tree crowns, as a giant reflector that keeps you from evil spirits (and maybe they are present somewhere ...).
For me, this trip was definitely a great experience and I can not wait to get back in May to discover more & more wonderful. I am convinced that somewhere there are - and yet in many other places in this country dear. But every thing at a time!
Last but not least, I will say that this area is declared a national park mountains, neat and a local association (called - not accidentally J - Kogayon), which has ensured that the place is always clean, neat and well flagged, so that visitors feel more comfortable there and have all the information necessary to manage the mountain and the objectives interest. I say they did very well and I hope he can continue so!
If you like religious places or want to know them better, I recommend you go - although, if you are girls, you can be bothered to traditionalism, as almost everywhere, we put on a position less appreciative (you may not pants to enter the churches, necrapata long skirt, you are not allowed to stay for the hermitages only under certain conditions, etc..). But suppose we apply the proverb "When you go to Rome, do as the Romans do" and to respect the spirit of the place, so that eventually all these rules are made by people and it is pointless to block our spiritual experience, I say. Moreover, there are traditional villages in the surroundings where are convinced that more can find other treasures of Romania, and the mountain itself is more complex than I was telling you here, because our time was limited exploration.
More information can be found on Buila-Vanturarita www.buila.ro or www.kogayon.ro and my photos on http://picasaweb.google.ro/ioanalook/HorezuSiBuilaVanturarita2008 # . God bless!
