Photographer’s Note
Lake Bicaz, also known as Lake Izvorul Muntelui is the biggest artificial lake on the interior waters of Romania; it was created after the completion of a dam built on the Bistriţa River. The dam is located a few kilometers north from the town of Bicaz.
The dam was built between 1950 and 1960 and is used to generate hydroelectricity at the Bicaz-Stejaru hydro-plant. It has a height of 127 meters, a length of 435 meters, and a maximum width of 119 meters. The lake has a length of 40 kilometers, an area of 33 km2 and a maximum volume of 1,250 million m3
The lake is a popular tourist destination in the region, especially in the summertime, when visitors can take the ferryboat from Bicaz port for a short trip on the lake, enjoying the magnificent view of Mount Ceahlau on the west shore.
In the 1960s and 1970s there was regular ferry service between Bicaz port and the villages on the shorelake.
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At this lake we slept "on the lake", on a floating hotel. Beautiful until...........start the storm in the middle of the night and the hotel start to shake up and down, left to right and in all directions. All the hotel-boat start to creak, outside the waves hit the hotel, an unusual experience.
The photo is taken in the day before the storm, at aprox 20 Km on the shore of the lake. The shore of the lake has 40 Km.
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Photo Information
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Copyright: Dan Tataru (DanTe)
(575) - Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2005-08-08
- Categories: Nature
- Camera: Olympus C-740 UZ, Digital
- Exposure: f/8, 1/800 seconds
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Travelogue: Romania Tour
- Date Submitted: 2005-08-20 4:54








