The National Park Semenic- Cheile Carasului
The National Park Semenic-Cheile Carasului is situated in th Caras-Severin county and has precious natural elements from Semenic Mounains and Anina Mountains. In the area of the National Park there are 8 natural reservations, constituted in special conservation strictly protected areas. The 8 conservation areas are: Carasului Keys, Nera Springs, Garlistei Keys, Carasului Spring, Buhui, Comarnic Cave, Popovat Cave, Buhui Cave. On the territory of these reservation it is prohibited any kind of exploitation or using the natural resources, areas, which are not in conformity with the protection norms.
Here there are organized educational activities: the using of the protected area as class in the nature, karstology, biology, alpine techniques, winter sports, the increasing of the agro-tourism in the area of the park.
The main tourist attractions are: Carasului Keys, that have a depth of about 200 m, 19 km length, from which about 10 can be visited; The Garlisei keys are 100-200 meters deep and can be visited on their 9 km length; The Aven from Poarta Gropii is the deepest from Banat and contains a succession of big fountains; the widest surface of forest cvasi-virgin forest from Europe, having over 5000 hectares, with trees older than 350 years; The Comarnic Cave with a tourist track of 1750 meters where there can be observed different kind of formations, galleries and impressing halls and a sub terrain river.
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