Romania
Romania enchants travelers with its diversity: be it natural (mountains, hills, sea, delta) or cultural(Romanians, Hungarians, Saxons, Rromas). Over the last decade it has known significant development and is one of the most recent members of the European Union. Still it may surprise some of its visitors who are used to western Europe. Romania is a large country which can sometimes be shocking with contrasts: some cities are truly Western Europe-like while in some villages locals live as they did a few centuries ago.
Transylvania
Transylvania, is a geographical region of Romania near the Hungarian border. There are mix ethincal groups, majority is romanian but large part is hungarian and there are gypsy mintority. Transylvania was part of the hungarian empire from the 900b.c. till the ottoman empire came. After the ottoman empire the habsburg empire took control which was transformed into austo-hungarian empire till the end of the 1st world war, which form the new romania.
Transylvania has big cities like Oradea, Cluj, Brasov or Arad. and small villages in the high mountains of Carpathians.
Transylvania is perfect place to travel back in time to see old castles like Bran dracula castle, sites of great battles, and travellers can see breathtaking panoramas, high mountains, deep valleys, running creeks and rivers. Rural tourism is a developing area here, it is good to stay in pleasant houses fully renoved for tourists, eat local food, speak with friendly local peoples.
Transylvania is also paradise for activity tourists, lots of places to rockclimb, skiing in winter or simply hiking in the mountains, stay in tents.
Look out for bears, romania has the largest bear population in europe
Cities and sights in Transylvania, Romania
Cluj Napoca
Bran caslte
Brasov
Korond
small village , famous for its pottery
Tusnadfurdo
Bucharest and the Black Sea riviera
Bucharest, Romania’s largest city and capital, with its French architectural old center, the Palace of Parliament, The Museum of the Romanian Peasant, the Village Museum and many other attractions.
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The Black Sea Riviera was one of the best, or at least around the same level as Bulgaria in the old world. Nowadays, mainly the romanian local tourism fuel the hotel room sales here, but do not forget, this part of the Black Sea is also has nice beaches as bulgaria or croatia.
Other main thing to see here is the Danube Delta, a 2,200-square-mile wildlife reserve designated by UNESCO as a “Reservation of the Biosphere;” the ancient port city of Constanta, and the seaside resorts stretching along Romania’s 152-mile Black Sea coast. From the port city of Tulcea, day cruises through the Delta’s waterways give travelers a glimpse of the abundant wildlife and the traditional fishing villages. Floating reed islands, sand dunes and waterways offer shelter to over 300 species of birds, countless fish and 1,150 species of plants.
