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Romania's longest and highest limestone ridge, 25 km long, with La Om Peak at 2,238 m, the Zărnești Gorge, Curmătura Chalet and trails for every level.
Limestone towers set with corals and ammonites, from under 10 m to over 70 m high, on the northern slope of the Rarău Massif. A short marked circuit leads to them from the Alpin Hotel.
An 18 m waterfall spilling down a limestone wall in the Țara Moților region, near the village of Nemeși in Vidra commune; a landscape reserve 500 m from the road to Avram Iancu.
A show cave in the Ordâncușa Valley near Gârda de Sus, with a 22 m high entrance portal, a stream that runs through it all year and small tufa cascades right at the entrance.
A cave more than 10 km long, carved by the Olteț river into the limestone of the Olteț Gorge, with 800 m of gallery open to visitors and legends about Zalmoxis, a kilometre from Polovragi Monastery.
A series of steps and potholes where the Putna river drops 14 m over about 80 m between sandstone walls, near Lepșa; a nature reserve since 1973, minutes from the DN2D.
A cave reserve in the Giurgeu Mountains, with over 1,000 m of passages on four levels, visited only with a guide on a torch-lit route, among stalactites, columns and aragonite crystals.
One of the longest caves in Romania, with more than 20 km of passages on four levels, on the Mehedinți Plateau; the interior is a protected area with no tourist route, but the Gura Prosacului portal can be seen from a short trail.
Nearly 31,000 hectares of forest in northern Neamț, where European bison roam free again, with woodland trails between monasteries, sessile oak and oak reserves and an interactive visitor centre.
A waterfall of about 15 m on the Vârciorog stream, tucked into a spruce forest below Piatra Grăitoare, near Arieșeni; reached up a wooded valley on foot or by horse cart.
A limestone gorge about 3 km long, with 70–80 m walls and over a hundred caves, between Merești (Harghita) and Vârghiș (Covasna); visited on foot, on marked trails.
