Category: Must See

Did you know that about 30% of Romania is mountain landscape? Did you know that Transylvania, listed by the Lonely Planet as the best world travel destination for 2016, is surrounded on all sides by the Carpathians Mountains? Here are FIVE very good REASONS of WHY you should come in Romania and GO OUTDOORS IN the CARPATHIANS. 1. DIVERSITY Maybe the best word to describe Romanian Carpathians is diversity: diversity from all points of view, but especially diversity of landscape. You want to experience the Carpathians as you experience the Alps, albeit at smaller scale?! Well, Fagaras, Piatra Craiului, Retezat are the best choices. You long for milder slopes with grazing sheep and old way houses spread over each mountaintop?! Relax, because you are in the right mountains. You would like to go deep into the woods and try some big wild fauna watching, like bears, wolves, wild boars, deer?! You must have heard that Romania has the biggest bear and wolf populations in Europe. 2. RURALSCAPE The Romanian Carpathians have a side I did not experience in any other mountains of Europe. They have a rural soul. Even the biggest mountain range of Romania, Fagaras is crisscrossed by shepherd trails and sheep and dogs are as familiar in the summer in the Carpathians as climbers in Chamonix. The mountains here defines rural and rural define the mountain. Take for instance Cernei Mountain, in South-West Romania. The river valley there is guarded by big vertical walls where you cannot find a path but they are and they are all leading to mountain villages atop the cliffs where electricity is yet a luxury. In Buila-Vanturarita, in Central Romania, you will find beautiful orthodox monasteries merged into the mountain landscape, but only if you hike for some good hours, because you cannot reach them but by