Old Orhei: Bath House.

Now, there’s a possibility that I’m wrong and these aren’t the remains of an ancient bath house, at all. My books are silent on that matter, and we didn’t have a guide, but I eavesdropped on a conversation between people who’ve been to Orhei before, and I think they said it was a bath house. So let it be so.

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Old Orhei: Communing with Nature

And once again we’re back to grass, a river, an occasional tree, and stones. I love it. Have some more photos.

I wonder who managed to break this, and why they would ever want to do it.

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Old Orhei: In the Cliff.

Finally, the reason most people even want to visit Old Orhei — cells in the cliffs. If you’re able, I definitely recommend that you climb inside them, though you do need to be careful, especially if the weather is wet, as it had been during my visit. I actually nearly fell down, because I slipped on the mud. Thankfully one of the uni mates grabbed my hand before I rolled all the way down. Nearly dragged the poor thing down with me. I’m still so sorry about that!

Some of the pictures posted here are blurry, but I still wanted to put them up to give you at least a bit of an impression of what to expect.

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