GILAU MOUNTAINS
Gilau Mountains are the largest unit of Cluj county mountains, reaching north to the Depression of Huedin and Capusului Passage, in the west to Vladeasa Mountains, south-west to Muntii Batrâna (Old Lady Mountains), and east to the Depression Iara-Hasdate. The highest peak is the Chicera Comarii’s peak, with 1475 m. Other peaks: Chicera Negrului (1497 m), Piatra Fulgerata (Lightning Stone) (1428 m), Petreasa(1415 m), Magura Calatele (1404 m).
Just 20 km away from Cluj, along the valleys of the Apuseni Mountains, the nature offers to the guests a true land of fairy tales. Gallery of landscapes that offers is as spreaded as highlsnders villages in the area. Crags interweaved with alpine meadows, forests of deciduous pushed through coniferous receding slowly till firs kingdom, cold streams, more jumping or quick-tempered but in no case quiet, filling a chain of lakes reminiscent of the Alps and everywhere, scattered from hill to valley, looking like sown by a giant farmer, houses and outbuildings of the “Mocan” people.