Nádasdi forest Traditional Geocache
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You can find this cache in the Nádasdi forest near Kaposvár
Nádasdi forest___ You can start from the Kaposvár railway station (N 46° 21,182' E 17° 47,692')along the tourist path signed with yellow strip 
that leads at the beginning in the streets of the city. You can walk, ride or drive. You cross the river Kapos – our city is named after this river. You can find an old little monument showing the handcuffed crouching down Saviour (N 46° 21,059' E 17° 48,547', 135 m). Later you get at the beginning of a one-car wide asphalt-road sunk into „yellow-soil” (loess) and leading to the hill-top. You get at the Saint Donát-chapel you can find on the top of Ivánfa-hill(N 46° 20,819' E 17° 49,370' , 200 m). The chapel was built in the beginning of 1700s by local vine-growers . St Donát is the patron saint of vine-growers. You can park your car here. You are heading south and you can watch the typical holiday gardens of Kaposvár cityzens. The yellow strip leads you outskirts of a plough-land and you find the beginning of the tourist path signed wih yellow L 
(N 46° 19,2140' E 17° 49,916', 185 m). You descent to the deep valley and you find the path signed with yellow O 
. You go on this path and shortly find the hiding place of the cache (N 46° 19,100' E 17° 50,132' , 145 m). Here you see the ruins of the Latinca-monument. This place is in bad repair because Latinca Sándor was a communist local principal dictator in Kaposvár in the times of ephemeral (133 days) Hungarian Soviet Republic following the First World War. After the downfall of HSR the Prónay-deteachment sentenced to death and shooted Latinca and further four red terrorists dead. In the times of communist Hungarian People Republic (1949-1989) Prónay was called „white terrorist”, Latinca was respected as a hero but now not. This can be observed on the basis of the bad condition of the memorial. (There are ups and downs in life…) Botanical specialities of the Nádasdi forest___ Due to the weak Mediterranean climatic influence, you can observe two species of Ruscaceae: Ruscus acuelatus (Pettigree, or Butcher’s broom) & Ruscus hypoglossum (Double tongue). Those can be found in Hungary only in South-West Transdanubia
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Va n yvggyr ubyybj bs n gerr va urvtug bs lbhe xarrf.