Details of the walk:
Distance: 5 kilometres
Route:http://out.ac/ozjdr (GPX and KML formats are available)
How to get there: By public transport: bus 8406 from Tatabánya
By car: Parking next to the road between Vértestolna and Tarján
We did a short outing ( 4,8 kilometres so I wouldn’t even call it a hike )to discover a hidden spot tucked away in the countryside.Our destination was a cave hidden in the Gerecse mountain, around a 1 hour car ride from Budapest. You might wonder, why drive for an hour for a short walk when the prize at the end is only a cave. Keep reading and you will see that this is no ordinary cave.
We left our car (a.k.a the Small Red Fireball) next to the road between the villages of Tarján and Vértestolna. The spot is hard to miss as it’s an intersection for several hiking routes so watch out for the yellow path signs.
Watch out for these trail markers 
The path leading to the cave is not an official hiking route but someone sprayed an omega sing on two trees at the intersections to show the way ( plus we’re living in a modern, digital age so we had the GPX route on our phone). As we walked along the wide dirt path, I was like a child wandering around a candy shop, every nook of the place held a new discovery: a cute little flower,a rabbit hiding among the trees, a dung beetle labouring tirelessly.
Follow the omega sign 
A big nose or a wise turtle? 
Hard at work 
Hello, who’s there? 
Check out this colour 
I call them unicorn flowers
The trees recently donned their brand new, 2020 dresses, the young leaves had that lush, green colour that we only see during spring. The whole forest was alive with sounds- not men-made ones as we were the only ones there – birds were eager to show off their repertoire, bees and all kinds off flying things were buzzing.
We left the dirt road after a clearing with two hunting stands at each side and walked deeper into the forest on a narrow and somewhat overgrown path.
Among the trees we could already see the fields stretching in the distance so we knew that we’re close to our destination. A narrow stone corridor led us to the edge of mountain and suddenly I didn’t know where to look. In the distance we could see the mountains of the Vértes and emerald fields stretched before our feet.
Now, without further ado let me introduce you the Pes-kő-barlang (Pes Stone Cave) situated in limestone wall of the Gerecse and reachable via a narrow stone ledge. At around 350 metres, the height is not staggering on paper but when looking down from the edge it seemed much more so we we walked cautiously toward the cave.
Someone was obviously living there or judging by the amount of little, brown “stones” all over the place and the strong animal smell, multiple someones. Therefore to avoid any awkward encounters, we didn’t venture deeper.
We spent around 45 minutes at the ledge to allow ourselves enough time to take in all the view and to take a few hundred pictures ( you can never have enough photos in my opinion, although my Google Drive would beg to differ but I try to exclude such negativity from my life), then we went back to the car on the same route.
Yelloways 