Nowadays, Sibiu is a city in Transylvania, Romania with a population of 150,000 inhabitants. But how did the city look like in the past? Who were the first settlers? How did the city develop into what we can see in the present? I took a walking tour of Sibiu Romania to find it all out. […]
Sighisoara is a medieval fortified town in the Mures County in Transylvania, Romania. It was proclaimed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. Multiculturality makes it even more interesting. Most of the 30,000 inhabitants are Saxons, Romanians and Hungarians. In this article I will tell you more about what to do in Sighisoara Romania, which according to […]
On my third visit to Romania in 2017 I found out that Romania is really a country of castles, citadels and fortresses. There’s so many of them it’s incredible! I am not sure if you knew but I am crazy about ruins and old buildings in general. So visiting at least a few Romania castles […]
I still find it surprising that Romania is such an underrated country. Well, frankly, I did not know much about Romania until my first visit back in 2015. I had not even thought of putting it high on my bucket list until I went there for the first time. So maybe I was one of […]
You remember when I spent a few days in Bucharest in April 2015 and finally visited Romania? Well, you might also remember then how freezing I felt there. I flew in from Kerala, India and it was so cold I need to buy a jacket. No spring weather, but definitely felt like winter to […]