Donji Milanovac and Lepensky Vir
We had a half day sailing...
...and passed the rock relief of Decebalus...
... and the monastery and the large flag of Romania...
...and the pretty house next door with its window boxes.
And then we idled for more than an hour. The Danube is at its narrowest just here at less than 140 metres and we had to wait for two tugs pushing barges to pass before we could enter.
The other commercial vessel. It looks wide here but the German Black Sea and Danube fleets consisting of 220 military and commercial vessels were retreating up the Danube followed by the Soviet fleet. The admiral knew that he could not out run the Soviets and sunk the entire fleet in the Iron Gates Gorge. The Soviets removed 20 ships and after the war, Yugoslavia removed another 20 but there are still 180 sunken ships hampering navigation. There is an EUR25 million project to remove the remaining ships due to be completed in 2026.
And finally we docked at Doni Milanovac to take a coach to see the Lepensky Vir archaeological site, excavated when the Iron Gates Gorge HEP plant was being developed and thought to be the oldest site of Mesolithic settlers in Europe dating back more than 8,000 years.
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