Carpathian Mountains
February 20th, 2008 | by dan |Just got back from a holiday seeing the in-laws in Romania. We also spent 4 days in the Carpathians, in a small town named Cheia, which is nice country for hiking.
Cheia (Key) is so named because of its status as a former border town between the states of Transylvania and Wallachia, two of the former main three principalities which make up modern Romania.
Pictures on the gallery.
Oddly despite being very remote, Cheia must be one of the best connected villages in Romania.
This is a satellite ground station which is used for transmitting Romanian tv to the US/Canada, amongst other things including data services. It also serves as a backup for several satellite control operations. The village is linked nationally via two 155mbit SDH/STM lines, leaving in opposite directions.
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