The National Blue Trail in Hungary : Bódvaszilas ---> Jósvafő 26,6 km Part 2. (ENG/HUN)

Welcome to Everyone who are here to visit my new journey through hills, mountains, meadows, forests and rivers walking on the National Blue Trail of Hungary. This would be my second episode of my journey and if you want to know more about it please read my previous post for the introduction here! 😇

Üdvözlök mindenkit aki szeretné végig kísérni az utamat dombokon, hegyeken, réteken, erdőkön és folyókon keresztül a magyarországi Országos Kéktúrán. Ez az utam második epizódja és ha többet szeretnél megtudni a túráról akkor kérlek látogasd meg az előző írásomat a linkre kattintva! 😇

Let's jump right in for the next part where I have left off my journey on top of the old castle of Szádvár and now it was time to climb down and continue to Derenk, which will be an old dead village and where is my third stamp will be located. 😉

Going down was much easier, but unfortunately I started to run out of water quickly hence the weather was warm and as my first real, long hike and such I didn't bring enough water, so I was started to look for some kind of spring through the journey downhill, but most of them was dried up or undrinkable. 😣

This field was used to be a swamp around 80 years ago and this is the entrance of the dead village. It was an absolutely amazing scenery in the middle of nowhere and without any sign of civilization yet. 😁

Finally I have reached to the third stamping location and I collected my third stamp into my booklet. It was time to look around this dead village, which name was Derenk until 1943, although didn't left much from it apart from the center of the village apart from one or two buildings.

There was a lot of sign like this next to the road and they marked that it was a house here before and who is that belonged to and where they have been transported, but these days the nature took everything back.

At the center of the "village" on a small hill there is a resting and memory shelter where you can find out more about the life of the village and take a big breath on your journey! 😉

There were pictures from the life of this village and few piece of information what is happened with them during the second World War! 😞

After a half an hour break it was about time to leave the village and suddenly I found myself in the forest again where the weather was much better and cooler than on the open field. I was still looking for some source of water and found few, but they were not safe to drink so I moved on. 😅

I have started climbing up to the top of a hill again, which was a bit exhausting especially without much water, but luckily on the top of the hill I found a hunting lodge and apartment with a nice resting place, where I could refill my flasks and was able to continue my journey with refreshed strength! 😊

This will be the last session of my journey for today, which will be an 3,5 hours hike ahead, so I better prepare myself for the road, because there will be no exit point if anything happens. 😏

At the beginning the road was quite nice, but after a while it turned out to be horrible, because some kind of big vehicles destroyed the road completely and I had to go on the side of the road in the forest, which makes my hike more tiring unnecessary! 😨

Finally I passed that dirty road and reach to nice lush green forest, which was amazing and I had time to look around and not just looking the road how to pass. 😊

Soon I have reached to the top of another hill, which was the last checkpoint of my hike and from here there would be no more forests, but open meadows and hills all over the place!

Those hills was enourmous compare to our flat country and climbing them would be a challenge on its own. I loved all the surroundings and the calmness of the scenery. Slowly I will reach my final destination, which will be the village of Jósvafő. 🤗

I have reached the edge of the village, so I will post some nice pictures about it. I remember we traveled into this village when I was child with my elementary class to see the famous caves system nearby called Aggteleki Cseppkőbarlang. 😇

The village was beautiful and there was lot to see, but unfortunately I had a bus to catch to take me back to the rail station where I started the hike in the morning, so I didn't had too much time to look around, but next time I will start from this village for another trip through the National Blue Trail.

Finally there is a beauty who belongs to one of the locals and it is our "national car" from the communism! 😂

A végére hagytam egy kis helyi szépséget a majdhogynem 'nemzeti' autónkat a kommunizmusból! 😂

There will be a little extra for the end, because when I reached my hometown the sun was about to go down and I had to take a picture of it, which was absolutely stunning in my opinion! 😇

Mire hazaértem a nap már majdnem hogy lement, de még idejében sikerült megörökíteni ezt a szépséget! 😇