Category Archives: Destinations
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Appropriate title. Trailer looks promising. Looking forward to the movie:
The Art of Flight
Canada, Patagonia, Alaska, Romania, Wyoming, Austria. A select group for Romania to be part of as a destination for the Art of Flight 2011. Click on the picture below to watch the trailer:
The most beautiful road in the world
“The greatest driving roads in the world should have a perfect mixture between challenging and complicated bends, long fast straights, little to no traffic and especially breathtaking views! These roads might have enough twists and turns to give you a headache but you’ll feel incredible after you’ve conquered them and you’ll surely want to try [...]
New York Times on Bucharest
“Friends visiting from Boston yearned for an urban adventure. Where could they go for a long weekend that hadn’t yet been subjected to the centrifuge of globalization? “Bucharest,” I replied, and they laughed out loud. “Bucharest!? Is there anything to see there? And what about the hotels and the food?” “Trust me,” I told them, [...]
Halloween special – staking out the castle of Dracula
“The ruins of Poienari Castle sit high on a mountain peak with a seemingly never-ending vista looking out over deep gorges, charcoal-gray cliffs and mountain streams. It’s a natural paradise, but we did not make the trip to this castle just for the awesome view. Visitors come for its connection to history’s most famous vampire, Dracula. [...]
There’s more to Transylvania than Dracula
“Halloween is very big here,” says Ioan Lazare, owner of the Hotel Sighisoara, where the annual soiree takes place. “They dress up, hang out in the cemetery. They just like the novel and the movie so much, they want to see these places.” Meanwhile, 90 miles south in the heart of Transylvania, the proprietors of [...]
Prince Charles in Transylvania
Financial Times recently featured an extensive article about Transylvania – “Europe’s last medieval landscape”. It refers, among other topics, to Prince Charles’ activities in the area. As you may or may have not known, he owns a few houses and is involved in numerous initiatives aiming to preserve the “natural/economic” balance of the region. Unfortunately, [...]
80 places to see before you leave Romania
While the title is cynically addressing inhabitants with “immigrational” thoughts, the album is a good starting point for anyone to discover some really good insider tips, along with better-known highlights of Romanian landscapes. Click on the screen shot below to go check it out; if you’d like more info on any of them make a [...]
Deep in the Carpathians, Painted Parables
“WHEN the Moldavian prince Stephen the Great won his first decisive victory against the Turks five and a quarter centuries ago, he decided to mark the occasion with a grand monastery and adorn its walls with the colorful work of artisans of the day. With his second victory came another monastery. With the third, yet [...]
Inferno 2010 – Extreme Skiing and Snowboarding @Bâlea Lac
Bâlea Lac is a lake (duh) on top of the Făgăraş Mountains in the Southern Carpathians, a.k.a. “Transylvanian Alps”. Why? See below. Ye fun-atic skiers & snowboarders, jot the name down. And when you get bored of Adelboden, Ischgl, St. Anton/Moritz, Cortina, Garmisch or even Vail or Whistler, consider the option to try for something [...]
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