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Article #5: Find Bed and Breakfast - Traveling in Transylvania

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Romania. An amazing country. People expensive brands, if not tastier. So
don't know too much about it. Some know don't choose a hotel. They are far too
it is an Eastern European country, others expensive, the service is poor (there is
heard of the appalling dictator still a lot of work to be done in Romania
Ceausescu. Some know Romania from when it comes to customer care and
television: they've seen reports tourism) and the food is not so great.
describing the poverty of the land or If you want to taste tradition, choose to
counting how many homeless children live spend your holiday in a village or in a
in the streets, begging, starving. country house outside a village, where
Others will describe Romania in other the hostess will welcome you (on your
words: the land of beautiful women, a first visit) with special, customary
mixture of Latin and Slavic culture, appetizers bread and salt and a shot of
mysterious and fascinating. Bucharest, palinca - a Romanian traditional
the capital of the country, used to be alcoholic drink, very popular in
called the "Little Paris" and Romania Transylvania. The bread and salt have a
has many other wonders waiting for you. symbolic meaning: they comprise the
A wonder is Transylvania - the country Romanian way of saying, "welcome in my
between forests - a real Romanian house". You'll probably not find the
territory, full of history and imposing same custom everywhere you go, some
in its splendor. The land has it all: traditions are lost, but don't be
bucolic scenery, heights that take your surprised if you do encounter it.
breath away (the Western Carpathians, So where should you go to be pampered as
also called the Apuseni Mountains, cross you deserve and have a real, genuine
the county from North to South), medieval Transylvanian experience? Not far from
towns (Sighisoara being the most famous Brasov, in Miclosoara (a little village
of all and the place were prince Dracula in the foothills of the Carpathians) you
was born) and rustic villages, places find "The Count's" guesthouses. Here you
were many ancestral traditions were have plenty of winter activities
piously kept and the people are friendly including skiing at Poiana Resort, bear
and welcoming. and wolf tracking (oh, yes, the land is
When traveling to Transylvania there is wild: a large bear population - you'll
no better way to enjoy your journey than not find it in other European countries),
to stay at a small, privately owned bed bird watching (there are plenty of rare
and breakfast villa. Remember: you are birds in the region including eagles,
in a wine country. Romanians make ural owls, wall-creepers, black-storks),
delicious wines, some of which you will hiking cross and cultural activities
never find in stores, for these are (many of the places you could visit are
homemade wines as tasty as the most listed as UNESCO World Heritage).






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