The Apuseni mountains are home to Romania’s most beautiful cave. The Bears’ Cave (Pestera Ursilor) is the most spectacular cave tourists can visit, due both to the sheer number of stalagmites and stalactites and to their forms.
In 1983 a blast during quarry works in the limestone mountain gave us access to a ‘lost world’. Quarry workers discovered a grim testimony about nature’s ways of evolution: the skeletons of over 140 cave bears stood proof that life once was blooming in the cave, presumably until a part of the mountain collapsed to cut any communication with the outside.
All this time the only thing that entered the cave to disturb the huge bears tomb was water, which formed calcium candles to go with the mood. Stalactites have been measured to grow at around 1.3 cm per century !!!
I’ll let the pictures talk for the beauty of this place:
I needed to include some text to break the streak of photos. So, consider this text the delimiter between “anybody’s photos” and the good shots :
And talking about pictures that no other photographer can give you:
I will not insult you by copying here all the factual information you can find yourself on Wikipedia (Romanian) or in their link pages.
However, if you feel you need some specific travel information please feel free to ask. I found the drive there very easy, with no difficult “which in heaven’s name is the right way from here??” decisions to make. The maps you can find in the region will easily point you there, as also the MOL Atlas.
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My Journey into the World 
Very hard, my friend! :>
ugly face, forget about it!
Nice. Very!!
hello
As i am a member of International Show Cave Association i am in charge to look for having name of the responsable of the cave , director, and mail adress to begin to have a contact
This is an official demand
from our president Mr David Summers
I am Joelle Darricau owner of Isturitz and Oxocelhaya cavee in France
Thank you for your answer
Waiting to know an official contact of this cave!
I am in no position to inform you about the ‘official’ contact data, since I am just a tourist. However, I did do a google search that came up with this number 0040-744-638-244 . Good Luck!
Would you mind if I used one of your pictures for a humorous article I’m writing on Romania?
If the article is for free, I have no problem.
If it is not for free, I would appreciate a mention of who made the photo 🙂
What a beautiful place. I was there but late oh the show so . thanks to you
thanks for your post, I\’ve found it very interesting .looking forward to see your next one!