September 16, 2010
Foktő, Bács-Kiskun, Hungary
Back on the dike
distance: 48.45km
duration: 6h 23min
The hungarian Puszta appears endless, cornfield after cornfield and little forgotten villages. The country is flat, nothing stands out for dozens of kilometers - and the horizon is far away.
Paprika grown on a field!
And then there's the danube dike - i've travelled
a big part of the last 500km on it.
It's inconceivable how much material has been
piled up and how much work has been put into
building this everlasting line all the way from
Vienna down to southern Hungary, 5 meters high,
20m wide.
I wonder who did this and when it was created -
has it been built over centuries, higher and
higher with every generation? Was it part of huge
infrastructure projects during the economic thrive
of the 50s and 60s? Or was it created by
workslaves during the Third Reich?
What's hiding in the pipe?