Peștera Dâlbina — Attraction in Sălciua

📍The cave is located in the Trascăului Mountains near Valea Poienii hamlet, at the bottom of Poljiei de la Vânătării Ponorului. It can be reached from Aiud, on the road leading to Ponor. From Brădești, descend on the road leading to Vânătării Ponorului- Huda lui Papară or vice versa, from Sălciua on the road leading to Brădești.

💡It is a fossil cave that does not have an organized watercourse with a heart-shaped entrance, 6 m wide. The entrance breaks the wall of Vânătării, at 2 m height from the brook bed. Once climbed, the jump from the entrance enters a round room 30 m in diameter, 10-15 m high. The almost horizontal floor is covered with boulders and mud resulting from accidental floods produced in the Vânătarele Ponorului at the bottom of which it is located. 🗻All the water that disappears here appears after 18 m in the final part of the Huda lui Papară cave. In heavy rains, all the water that collects in the 〰️ must be drained by Ponorul Vânătare. Accidentally it can be clogged with brought material, branches or haystacks.

ℹ️Then a temporary lake is formed that can rise to a few tens of meters high, flooding the Dâlbina Cave. When the water pressure exceeds the resistance of the plug, it is shattered and the water rushes with high flow on the active gallery of Huda lui Papară cave and then on Valea Morilor to Arieș. From here was born the legend of the Solomans. The phenomenon is very irregular, maybe once a decade.

💡 In the only room of the Dâlbina Cave you can see a few speleothems. Some parietal leaks and few stalactites can...

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