BUKKABRANY VILLAGE MUMMIFIED FOREST : BUKK NATIONAL PARK : WONDERFUL PLACES IN HUNGARY #18

Bukki Nemzeti Park 

In 2007 in the village of Bukkabrany, archaeologists discovered that beneath the ground at 60 meters (around 200 feet) down the trunks of swamp cypress trees.  These have been dug out and are on display at the visitors center of Bukk National Park.

According to this article that appeared via Rueters the trees were living at a time when the Carpathian basin was a fresh water lake.

RUETERS: HUNGARY : CYPRESS TREES RARE FOUND "Instead of petrifying -- turning to stone -- the wood of 16 Taxodium trees was preserved in an open-cast coal mine allowing geologists to study samples as if they were sections cut from a piece of living wood."

*** The village itself is being considered for a Paleo Park (and I don't mean the diet!)

Click on the label Wonderful-Hungary to get to the entire series on this theme.

BUKK NATIONAL PARK : CAVING, ARCHEOLOGY SITES, PRESERVED VILLAGES

BUKK NATIONAL PARK SITE (In English, Hungarian, and Slovak)  link here!

Readers, on Christmas evening I had that feeling that I was coming down with something.  Sure enough I spent the next week with an allergy-driven head cold from hell, two of them in bed, finally giving in to big doses of pain killer and antihistimine.  When I took my dog out for a walk I felt winded if I went more than a block, so of course, with all the news about a flu epidemic, I grew concerned that I was weak.  My doctor said "come in NOW!"  So I took a half day off to go in without an appointment and wait for a moment when I could take the flu shot.  I am recovering fully. It's so cold in Southern California that the leaves changed color and fell off the trees!

What does this have to do with BUKK NATIONAL PARK?  Well, I was researching to post about the park when I got sick. So, here is a dramatic video of winter at the park, and the link to the site!