Continuing our travels through northern Moldova, and particularly through the Edinet District, we traveled along the Dragishte River, starting from the famous and one of the most beautiful gorges in the Toltra River near the village of Trinca and moving downstream. We visited the Fetești Landscape Reserve, which also features two gorges – one within the reserve, covered in forest, and the other at the exit of the village.
The Dragishte River then flows through a meadow, forming a beautiful valley, but we'll write about that in a separate publication dedicated to this remarkable river. Approaching the village of Burlănești, the Dragishte enters a majestic and even austere-looking gorge—the Burlănești Gorge—the lowest and last gorge above this river.
The gorge is formed by two toltra ridges located at right angles to each other. The left side of the gorge is a high, sheer wall, covered only by stunted grassy vegetation; this slope reaches a height of approximately 70 meters. The left wall of the gorge is formed by a gentle reef, which drops off abruptly just above the gorge, forming a rather steep and very picturesque slope.
Approaching its summit, you're struck by the bizarreness of the rocks jutting out from the reef. It was this very Toltra ridge that a local collective farm dynamited back in the 1960s to extract stone for construction. The most bizarre and picturesque rocks were dynamited, and traces of this barbarism can still be seen today.
The Burlănești reefs have a complex structure: their lower part is formed by Tortonian sediments, while the upper part is composed of branched bryozoan colonies of Sarmatian limestone. There are several natural caves on the right slope of the gorge, but they are small and unlikely to have served as permanent shelters for prehistoric humans. Some have been destroyed by natural elements, and possibly by human activity.
The Burlănești Gorge is relatively short, no more than 0.5 km long. Its bottom is strewn with large and small boulders that have rolled down its slopes, making the Dragishte River's course particularly winding and capricious in this area. After passing the gorge, the Dragishte River enters and crosses the village.
The view from the top of the gorge slope is particularly impressive. The Draghishte River valley towards the village of Fetești is picturesque, with the Fetești Gorge, the enormous quarry opposite it, and the upper part of the Fetești Nature Reserve all within easy reach. Having visited this place, we were once again amazed by the natural wealth of this region. This is the sixth gorge we've described in our publications on the geological monuments of Edinet District. But we may yet delight you with new discoveries and expand on the material in previous publications. Until next time.
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