Motorcycle Explorer August 2014 Issue 1 | Page 86

MEM - Wonderful Roads and Places 2 The Vidraru Dam A whopping 166.60 m high, and 305m long. Its base thickness is 25m, the top is 6m thick. It works for hydroelectricity but better than that is the fact that it has a viewing platform that is not for the faint of heart or perhaps ensure you look before you have anything heavy to eat! This platform can be used as a bungee jump but I think I’d give it a miss. The electricity monument is a huge Prometheus and it’s placed on top of a tower. The road can be accessed through the tunnel near the dam. You can, if the mood takes you, hang up your helmet and hire a paddle boat or take a leisure boat across the lake and soak up the views. Prometheus!