I was born in this little town near the Danube, I lived most of my life here and I got at some point to visit the place where the Danube springs from, in Schwarzwald, Germany. Nothing amazing about that place, but I sure love and find truly majestic the Danube Boilers area.
It's a nine-kilometer sector of the Danube Gorge, located near the Carpathian Mountains’ pass in southern Banat and it has quite a story. And I know it ;).
Having spent a couple of years in the tourism business in this area and acting like a guide on occasions as well, I really learned a thing or two about this place and I can't wait for any chance to go for a boat ride and be the English guide for foreign tourists every time that happens.
This one trip I took these photos that you see in this post wasn't any of these ones when I was acting as a guide, and I have already posted some pics of this beautiful area on my blog but never done that through a 
Back to the Danube Boilers...
So, why do they call this area this way? Well, before the construction of the Iron Gates water dam, when the water level was way lower than it is right now, the stream of water hitting the rocky mountains was forming some interesting visual effects as if the water was boiling.
It was mostly due to the rocks underneath the water surface rather than the ones from the surface and that's why the locals named it this way.
The main takeaway is the fact that in the tightest point of this area there are just 120 meters between the Serbian shore and the Romanian one. Back in the days when the dam didn't exist "that gate" was even tighter...
That meant trouble for sailors. Believe it or not but going through that pass sometimes took large cargo ships up to 24 hours. Locals came in to help as well and at some point, they were even using a train or horses to be able to pull the large ships out of the tight pass.
If they'd sailed on their own they would risk getting carried by currents and smashed into the rocks. Passing through the Danube Boilers pass was truly a risky adventure about 50 years ago. Aside from the beauty of the scenery of this area, tourists that come in here by the tens of thousands every year are after visiting some other touristic points as well.
Two of the main ones are that cave in one of the pics from above where you literally enter in it by boat(will have a future post on this one as well) and then there's Decebalus face rock sculpture which is the biggest in Europe and second largest in the world with 50 meters in height and about 25 meters width and the Mraconia monastery from the first pic.
You can't simply visit this place and leave without a pic on your smartphone from this place. Imagine that, if I as a local have so many of them, and still find every visit to this area spectacular, that tourists are having a fantastic experience as well.
Anyway, time to close the post now, hope you enjoyed the pics and if you ever come to this place, give me a shoutout.
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian