I’ve heard many pro and cons opinions … Transfagarasan is a piece of cake when compared to Transalpina or Transfagarasan is the most beautiful road in the world…no wait Transalpina road is the most beautiful one… …. so I decided to convince myself.A month later after my trip on Transfagarasan, we packed up and headed to Transalpina! On Friday at 6 pm, we went out of Bucharest to Horezu where I booked the accommodation that evening. The next morning, we could not hit the road without a shopping session in Horezu “mall”. But it was not any kind of shopping … The first stop was at Casa Pietraru – a special fairy tale house in a form of a pot which I immediately recognized from the pictures.
From Horezu we headed to Ranca, eager to discover Transalpina road – the highest one in Romania (2145m), also known as King road. We often felt like touching the clouds so high in the sky the road took us. It was wow!
We headed afterwatds to Orlat, where we booked a stylish accommodation in a guesthouse placed on the top of a hill and surrounded by vineyards all arround. We ate something and went to Sibiel where we visited an interesting museum of icons painted by ordinary people.
We turned back on the Orlat hill and enjoyed an excellent Romanian local wine – (made from the vineyards nearby) in a very relaxed atmosphere. The next day, Alex ia had her first lesson on horseback.
People are very warm and welcoming and I highly recommend you to visit it and taste a little a piece of bacon. You can admire the church, bees’ house and many other surprises …
Here we had a real adventure when the guide, after he saw us so curious about the tower, invited us to stay for lunch … And we stay for a very special lunch with the Saxons that are still living in the village, with the Saxons returned from Germany and two Germans tourists wandering through Cristian….. but that’s another story about which I will write about soon. So, how about you? When are you coming to Romania?