Rock Baba Kaj

Rock Baba Kaj

Rock Baba Kaj – distance from Villa 12 km.

A detailed description of the George’s rocks position founded in the travel notes from the 1893: “Baba Kaj is the lonely and the top pointed rock, which rises above the water surface of 18 meters high. It stands as an outpost of the Danube Gorge, as the forerunner of many rocks above and below the surface, which hamper the passage of the gorge, and also stands as a reminder of the dangers that begin from there”. The same text keeps the story that some Hungarians fled with the most beautiful woman in the harem of the Turkish aga, who commanded Golubac; the Turks ran after them and got them on the bank of the Danube; outraged husband took off the hijacker’s head and hung it around the neck of the unfaithful woman and the he threw her to the rock and nailed her so crows and ravens would peck her, the eagles to slaughters her living flesh! – He shouted when he walked away from the rocks “Babo, Kaj se!” And from that time the rock is called Baba Kaj. According the second interpretation, the name comes from Turkish: baba-father and kai-stone, a “father stone” – a very appropriate name for the giant rock that dominates the entrance region of the Iron Door.

Sources: Wikipedia, togolubac.org