Category: Romania
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Transylvania – Number 1 region to visit in 2016 (Lonely Planet)
According to Lonely Planet, Transylvania is the number one region to visit in 2016, so start packing everyone.
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Travelers of Bucharest City Guide
Although Bucharest is not one of my most favorite cities in the world, it does seem to get more and more popular among tourists nowadays and has become a quite interesting destination on the European map. So it does need a proper city guide for us, the modern tourists using all sorts of smart phones,…
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[Romania] Just a short trip to the Bâlea Waterfalls
We left the house on the Sunday morning planning to go up to the Bâlea Lake with the cable car. Is was winter and quite a heavy weather down in Sibiu and we tought that for sure there will be no one planning to do the same thing as us. But we were very wrong,…
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[Romania] The Praid Salt Mine
To the Praid Salt Mine we went on a January Saturday morning, before starting our trip to the Piatra Singuratică chalet. Very good choice as outside was colder than in the mine and the mine was almost empty, as most turists come during summer time. So lucky us, we had some quiet time to explore the…
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[Romania] Winter Hiking to the Lonely Stone (Piatra Singuratică)
The trip to Piatra Singuratică was on our list for quite a long time, but a winter weekend seemed like the best time to actually make it happen. The trip is quite short and short winter days are just perfect for some pure outdoor pleasure. So one cold January weekend it happened.
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[Romania] Short hiking trip around Cisnădioara
The beginning of 2015 gave us a lot of energy and we felt the need, after all the New Year’s parties, to go outside and enjoy a different kind of fun. We thought that having a short Sunday walk around Sibiu would be exactly what we needed to actually prepare for starting a new and…
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Why I’m so in love with Sibiu
It’s been a year and a half since I ran away from the busy and sometimes exhausting life that Bucharest had offered me for about 8 year and finally moved to Sibiu. First thoughts were that it will be hard to get used to not living always on the run. Of course, the fact that…
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Traveling in 2014 – outside Romania
2014 was, of course, a full year,with lots of traveling. We had so many busy weekends and the most vacation days so far! We discovered new places, some we loved so much that we are considering of going again next year. But let’s have a short overview of where our feet took us this year.
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The first raw-vegan restaurant in Sibiu [CLOSED]
I’ve been planning for quite a while now to also start writing about places we normally go out to eat or drink in Sibiu, because we are always hunting for new places, but places that locals like, not the touristic tasteless and flavorless ones. So here we are, I hope this is the first from…
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[Romania] The Sântămăria-Orlea Church
In the Sântămăria-Orlea village there is a very old and valuable medieval church. The church was built in between 1270 and 1280 in late Romanesque style and it was built to serve a community of Catholic settlers near the Haţeg area.
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[Romania] The Bolii Cave
The Bolii Cave has been recently rehabilitated and is now open for visiting. Close to the Bănița Gorges, it’s only a short visit, so why not stop by if you are in the area.
The Chocolates Of Life 