A n unusual trek for Oxygen Association … although we aimed mountain trails, objectives here have made it more special. We started Friday night with 9 cars, 42 people. We camped in the yard of our host from Buzau county, our local guide, Diana Gavrila. we have found here a vast courtyard composed of a hill and a valley, freshly cut grass and a few friendly cats. [...]  mai mult

As summer is in full swing and we miss to camp on mountains, Oxygen Association invites you to a very special area – Buzau Mountains. Even if they do not have high altitudes, landscapes are special and local legends will certainly enchant you. The energy of the place is beautiful, with special people and unusual sights – settlements cave, stones coming to life (trove of various shapes) and breathtaking landscapes. [...]  mai mult

Being the 3^rd expedition of Oxigen Organization in Uganda and the 6^th expedition led by our Chairman of Honour, Romanian mountaineer David Neacșu, the objectives are already well-defined. [...]  mai mult

My Village is Green Project aims at engaging the schoolteachers of general secondary education and the students from Moara Vlăsiei village in an educational campaign of raising awareness among people regarding environment protection and the necessity of volunteerism in ecologic activities. It is intended that, due to their engagement, the activities that take place improve ecologic actions without the need of common administration or legislative provisions. [...]  mai mult

If you have spent so many holidays in Greece and you haven’t heard of Skiathos Island, it’s time to change this. Why? Because it’s one of the most intimate, seductive holiday destination from all over the world. Even Hollywood noticed that and came here in 2008 to film Mamma Mia Production. Let’s find out more about this Greek Island… The landscape is hilly, the highest altitude being 433 m over the sea level. The main town – Skiathos has 6.000 inhabitants, one airport and a beautiful lagoon. The greatest attractions here are the silence of the place, the traditions, the fabulous food, noble wines, beautiful landscapes, vintage beaches with golden sand.  [...] 

We just came back from Greece and Oxygen Team has prepared its backpack for a short trip to Croatia. Neither the 2600 km road, neither the early 3 am wake up call didn’t stopped us to accomplish our plan – checking the route for our trip to Croatia.
Main actors: Andrei ( the driver), Diana ( the copilot), Grey Fury ( the car). It’s done – we woke up early, we got into the Grey Fury and we are on. The Romanian road were less crowded than usual and the few kilometers through Bulgaria would have gone unnoticed if we haven’t forgotten to buy the crossing license. I didn’t get it – way to we need it if we fly over those roads? Is is necessary for this also? 🙂
At the Serbian border, the same customs officer that we’ve met 2 months ago checked us without any enthusiasm at a speed of 10% of our Grey Fury. But we didn’t care…
After 14 hours of driving like crazy and after eating the best Parisian schnitzel& Cordon Bleu, we have accommodated at Korona Kamp, at less than 10 km from Plitvice.
Second day (we woke up at 6:30), full of kindness we take with us 2 Polonaise guys and we go towards the famous park.
Here we went by boat, by train which is actually a bus, we take photos in high speed, we run through the tourists, we smile and we salute everybody, we learn to say Hi in Japonese Kon’nichiwa, we jump over the old grandma teeth (wooden bridges) and in the end we were very proud that we did everything in 4 hours and we have left further towards Grabovac where we have entered the mountain trail.
We have encountered here a landscape that can hardly be described in words, where mountains with less than 1700 m look huge, on a road more adventurous than Transfagarasan, where for 10 minutes we forgot about our purpose and listening music out loudly we recorded and enjoyed everything.
The Dinaric alps are no lower in beauty than their brothers from Austria or Italy. Maybe the lower altitude is not their plus, but the landscape is beautiful. One thing is for sure – not water on the route, we can find marks on the trail, but not on the good direction and certainly these mountains are not friendly during storms.
At night, we stayed at Hotel Lucija in Posedarje, listening Italian music from the ’60. Our plan was to get some good sleep, although our wake up call was planned for 3 am and party of our new friends seemed longer than our patience.
The journey way back seemed longer…with fewer gas stations, with 1 good meal. We reached Bucharest, tired at around 20 and we both got towards 2 different directions – Andrei towards Covasna and me towards Popesti because the next day I have to go to Sacele.
That’s the spirit: 60 hours – 30 hours in the car, 12 hours mountains trail, 3 hours meals, 15 hours sleep. We shorten the distances and we distend time – the rest is the spirit!  [...] 

At least from 2000 years we feel the presence of the greater power in all civilizations, no matter the location on the map. Sometimes we have also the courage to look deeper and ask questions, looking for answers based on the rations. We notice that the fingerprints left by humans from all times until now are connected to beliefs and to the hope of greater entities that take care of our lives and survival.
During all the changes of humanity, taking into account all the elements, it stood still…determining our concrete truth. Maybe this is the reason for which the greatest people stayed in the nature; maybe this is the reason through which people charge there batteries in the mountains, at the seaside or maybe here we can reach heaven.
Definitely each trip represents a search – that you are aware of or not – to the truth that leads to a higher purpose. Thinking of a new adventure, our steps led us towards Buzaului Mountains. Here we’ve discovered a great variety of touristic sights:
– religious places and monasteries all around the county (in places like Alunis, Bozioru, Nucu, Ruginoasa, Braesti s.a.), the tracic Necropola (Naeni village) that has over 2500 years old;
– the trovants (the living stones) from Ulmet, the muddy vulcanoes from Scortoasa and Berca;
– The Amber Museum and the stone sculptures from Magura and Naeni;
– The accumulation lake from Siriu – that cuts your breath at sunset with its beauty;
– and many other sights.
Please enjoy some photos from these places!
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