Mountain Resort

Trip Start Jul 31, 2009
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Trip End Jul 31, 2009


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Sunday, June 21, 2009

You have seen most of Bucharest in two days. My intention was to head to Constanta and the Black Sea Coast, 100 km to the East of town, but everyone I asked recommended rather to cross the Karpatian mountains north of town and visit Transsylvania. That's a much more typical place for Romania they said. So I took off two days more to go there.

Two hours north of town in Sinaia, King Carol's former fairy tale mountain residence, the air is clear and cool. The place is a skiing and summer resort where you can take the cable car up to peaks of more than 2500 meters and gaze over the rounded Karpatian mountains, gracefully descending towards the fertile Danube plains around Bucharest on one side and the Transsylvanian highlands on the other. It is really nice up here, above the tree level, which runs already at about 1500 meters - less imposing than in the Alps and less rugged than the Pyrenees still with quite a bit of a mountain feeling. It could be a great place for long hikes on empty trails. This is a big country, two thirds of the size of Germany and it has only 20 million inhabitants and few tourists so it never will become too crowded on the trails.
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