At Drenkova begin the rapids and the Klissura Narrows, and the landscape becomes more romantic and beautiful, We pass the rocky reefs of Dojke, Izlas, and Tachtalia, over which the water rushes and roars along its course. Next we speed past the rocks of the Greben, partly exploded during the work of regulation in 1891; then the river suddenly widens out to a breadth of 2 kilometres; further down it sweeps round to the North East, and forms the Kazan Pass, the most superb stretch of the Lower Danube. The mighty stream is here reduced by imposing mountains to a breadth of 165 meters. We imagine ourselves sailing on a lake, for we can perceive no outlet: suddenly, we turn towards the East, and again see the mighty stream flowing onward through the mountains. The scenery is more superb than that of any other river of the same magnitude.

Along the left bank runs the Szechenyi road constructed by Vasarhelyi: on the right bank we can see traces of a Roman road constructed by Trajan. We also sail past the Memorial Tablet of this emperor, then gradually, the river widens and we arrive at the little town of Orsova, frontier-station of Hungary. Here, beneath mighty poplars stands the Crown Chapel, on the place where in 1849 Ludwig Kossuth buried the Hungarian Crown.

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Adapted from Illustrated Description of Hungary and its Capital