Somló Landscape Protection Area - Doba

Suitable for hiking.

Very nice!

"We visited the hermit of the country" The day after visiting Ság, we visited the "big brother" and visited some of the sights of Somló, 435 meters high. Somló was called a hermit by Mihály Vörösmarty, a great friend of the wines here, as it rises 435 meters from the plane of the Little Plain. From a distance, my saint is like a weird hat with a flange, a sharply high middle part, from the flatness of which a hood peeks out. That is why it is also referred to as the forgotten hat of God here. Where is the name, where is the mountain? There are several etymological explanations for the name Somló. Most likely, in the darkness of history, a dogwood once covered the top of the mountain. From this somf, the mountain was somos, which is what the Árpádian Hungarian said to be “somlott”. Others argue that the name actually meant a bald, rocky hilltop that stood out from a green wooded area. Som knows which one is true! To be sure, according to our linguists, what comes from here is not Somló, like those mouth-watering sweets from dumplings, but Somlai. Now let’s see how this bell-shaped “drop” was born! Sometime in the middle of the Tertiary period, well over ten million years ago, the bulk of Hungary's territory was covered by a huge body of water, Lake Pannonia, according to Caesarean geologists, the Pannonian Inland Sea. It was good deep because only the mountains higher than 300 meters popped out of it. In this lake lived the famous "Balaton goat's claw" mussel (Congeria ungula-caprea for flanners). If you are looking for a beautiful goat's claw, do not look for it on the eastern foot of Somló Hill near Ferencmajor, not on the Tihany Peninsula. A million tons of sediment and sediment were added to this huge body of water, so it slowly became swampy and dead. Towards the end of the Third Age, "hell" ensued, and a series of basalt volcanoes formed. Among them was our hermit on the plains. External forces carried away the softer sediment, so the basalt hill of Somló became more and more prominent. Panting for the top of Somló, we can pass through three different zones. The lowest is the mantle, which consists mostly of sandy clay and gravel. The middle between 300-400 meters is a rock-hard basalt area with rock ribs and basalt columns. (God, but they're beautiful too! These columns line up like piles of silver on the table of medieval money changers.) In the top 35-foot bulge, a different "hopoka" (blistered-lava basalt) awaits us. Many say this landscape may have been like the famous, infamous lava flows of the Hawaiian Islands today for a few million years. Rope and braided lava, pear-shaped volcanic mushrooms or the tears of the goddess Peleé… As a teacher and lover of geography, I could hardly wait for our visit to Mount Somló.

Very nice landscape, great time. Full of lizards and birds. With both easier and harder routes. If you want to get tired, be sure to capture it here. Routes are largely maintained, but are dangerous between steep slopes.