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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

In the Trögener Klamm

Just beyond the town of Eisenkappel, near the border to Slovenia, still in the foot hills of the Karawanken Mountains is the "Chasm of Trögen".
A steep cut into the rock face with a fast running, clear, green brook at the very bottom.
The road winding its way about half way up the "Klamm" is narrow, with now and then a lay-by, so that if  there is an oncoming car, one or the other has to back up making it to the nearest widening.
It is really not dangerous ! It only looks and feels hair raising.
Somewhere there must be places where one can climb down to the mountain brook for a very refreshing dip in one of the small round pools cut into the rock over the millenia.
I say: " .. must be ... because I saw bathers, lying on the water-smoothed rocks, sunbathing and now and then taking a cold bath, although I could not figure out how they got there.
Anyway, it's a lovely trip.









two intrepid bathers in the Trögener Klamm





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