This lofty mountain – part of the Bucegi chain – shows up dark and menacing, with its mighty cliffs looking like an ancient warder of these lands. This strange giant rules over Busteni resort and actually over the whole Prahova Valley, looking down to it from its 2384 meters height.

One part of this mountain looks like someone had tried to whip it off the mountain body but could not mange and the cliff remained hanged half way to the ground. People around here use to say this rock looks actually like a bagpipe… and the legend of the Caraiman mountain and its bagpipe reads down here:

Elderly people fairy tale us about a mighty old wizard who used to live in Carpathians at times out of memory when, they say, the sky used to be much closer to the earth and there was much more water in the world than land. This wizard was taller than the tallest fir in the Carpathians forests and his hair was a huge green tree; his long beard was made of moss as there were his bushy eyebrows; his garments were made of tree bark, his voice sounded like thunder and he used to wear a huge bagpipe under his armpit – and the bagpipe was the size of a house.
But that doodle sack was magic and it helped the wizard to make all his wishes come true: when Caraiman sang in a low voice he could make the grass grow on the fields around and when he played the drone louder he could bring to life animals and birds out of number. Sometimes the magician blew his drone so strongly and loudly so as terrible storms started, mountains were shaken and sea water drew away.

There were people on the Earth but Caraiman did not like them as the humans were mean and vicious and often argued to each other for very unimportant things. But Caraiman was feeling lonely and felt that something was missing from his kingdom… one day he took the brave decision to populate his lands with human beings and he thought not to create grown – ups but only children who would always remain children and never would grow up and become spoiled or evil. And for a while everything was just wonderful in his kingdom: little humans were laughing and playing with joy all day long and everyone was happy – the magician was happy too. Diseases and death did not exist on his lands.

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