It's been quite a long time without any kind of trip so was a good timing for a Bucharest-out time this week. Also to tell the truth I have been living in Romania for 10 months with only a limited Bucharest knowledge and it disturbs after all.

I won't fck your head telling all the trip info which you can easily google and read in many other blogs. I just want to share my observations about that part of Romania and how different from known Bucharest. As a preface, here is the google-mapped road that I followed:

Peleş Castle, as recognized one of the most seen historical buildings in Romania, stands on a magnificient mountain scenery. It's not an old one, built on 19th century for the big king, Carol I who was imported from Germany. Funny that Romanians couldn't handle to select a king from inside because of the chaos and non-trust and found an imported one. You must see this land, Sinaia, Prahova, for amazing landscape more than this castle. Just for a long walk, a delicious breakfast on the edge of the mountains really worth.


About Bran Castle (commercialized as Dracula's castle), all I can say is it's a big failure. First, after a tough road reaching Bran, you pay 20 Lei for entering a very ugly castle. Girly-furnished with Queen Mary's ownings, almost nothing related left from Vlad Tepes (ruler of the area) and simply commercialized as Dracula's land. If you have nothing to do in the country, consider as the last option to visit this castle.


Rest and most of our trip was full of Brasov, Sighisoara and Sibiu city walks. This area is known as the German-speaking part of Romania. These cities were full of ethnic Germans until 90s. And you can still see the effect on advertisements, sales people's approach, buildings and so on..Even Sibiu's current mayor is ethnic German. That was a nice practise for my limited German :)

What really amazed me, travelling between those cities, is the landscape for sure : So green and virgin. Another detail that took my attention was the villages built on two sides of the inter city roads. Of course not as standardized as German equivalents, but still the structure of all these villages were almost similar.

All these 3 cities are designed as one big square, the following main street, the surrounding old town and the expanding new town.




Shortly, it was an enjoyable transylvanian trip, worth to see places.And here are some little keynotes that I noted during these 4 days....

• Yes, Europe, including Romania is getting older.