Travel Guide Cobani

In the east of the villages of Cobani and Branişte, "the 100 hills" (Suta de Movile) take part in the natural reserve Padurea Dumneasca. It is a strange landscape, an covered steppe of 3500 mounds, of varying sizes (between 1,5 and 30 m high), over a length of 40 km, by 2,5 to 8 km wide per place. Due to their alignment, the place is sometimes subject to strong currents of air. Between the hills, the rise of groundwater and precipitation formed small lakes. At the moment, the origin of this fantastic sound landscape is still a mystery, several interpretations exist and none is stopped. For some, it is the result of landslides in the Neolithic era that would have produced uprisings, for other scientists, it would be fossil rocks of coral reefs covered with land. Finally, the premises like to think that it was about burial mounds, because the place was the scene of many battles against the Turks. The larger the buttes, the larger the people. The best time to admire this strange landscape is between May and the hot month of July, the hills are covered with nuances bursting with colours, due to the presence of a rich and preserved flora. Flowers such as iris, hyacinth, adonis and milliers are not thousands.On the 100 hills road, the reefs from Buteşti to Camanca:Creeks at the Camenca level have dug a narrow chain of picturesque reefs. They are named the reefs of Buteşti (1 km from Cobani on the Branişte Road) surrounded on three sides by the river and its tributaries. The reef is 2 km long, 125 metres wide and 40 metres high. It is littered with caves and caves, serving as a large animal sanctuary during the glacial period and to man in the Paleolithic era. It owes its composition to corals and other skeletons of marine animals such as molluscs, crabs, urchins, and more rarely seals and dolphins in limestone.