Day 2 - Walk from Cerem to Dobredol. Bags travel by car

Walk from Cerem to Dobredol

Bags travel by car - July 17.

We started walking on the cars trail all the way to a small shack that serves coffee and tea (our first coffee break for the day).

The walk continues in a forest and then as you go higher - the view changes .

After leaving the trees , there is an area with a few shepherds' huts.

We were very lucky when we entered the last hut for tea,  and ended up staying for over an hour to a "cheese making workshop" and tasting!

The lady was very kind as she explained and demonstrated the process, and let us taste it all, with great patience and hospitality.

Like everyone else on the mountains, she and her husband live there throughout the summer with their 200 sheep, milking them twice a day and producing butter, cheese and yogurt from their milk (which their son takes to Bachram Curi to sell), and go down to a lower village with the sheep for the winter. All these people work very hard during the summer so that they will have enough to survive the winter.

Dobredol valley is beautiful and looks very remote (which it is...).

It was very cold too...

We could see the sheep coming home from the field, and being milked, one by one , as they enter their fence. A girl riding (down hill) a pair of old mountain bike with no chain, horses, cows and a beautiful stream ( which we couldn't even dream of bathing in, in this freezing weather...).

The guest house (Bakshim) is interestingly built with stone "terraces" serving as beds base and adorned with flowery sheets that surround the bed like in a "Harem" palace...