Cycling in the Baiului mountains
We had initially planned to take a one day trip to the mountains with our bikes. This would be my first trip with the bike above 1000 meters and, since I like both cycling and mountains, it sounded like the perfect combination.
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Red ravine
I’ve passed through Sebeș countless times, on my way to my grandmas, my aunts and other longer trips. I had only stopped there once for about half an hour to visit the fortified church, but that was about it.
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The fortified church from Cisnădioara
I’ve always been fascinated by castles, fortresses and any other kinds of strongholds. I find it interesting to see how these evolved over time and how people found more and more ingenious ways of defending themselves against as ingeniously evolving siege weapons. I love discovering new ways of fortifying a place, both in terms of defensive structures, but also clever ways of allowing people to shoot, throw and use any other types of defensive mechanisms. Luckily, there are loads of such strongholds close to home. Transylvania is especially full of castles, citadels, fortified churches and strongholds. Of all these, I like the fortified churches the most. And this is how this series came to be 🙂
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Hiking in the snowy Ciucaș Mountains
Winter is my favourite season 🙂 And hiking in the mountains is one of my favourite activities! So a combination of these two is pretty close to perfection. In order to reach perfection, the weather has to be good and favor the best views! And that’s exactly how it was last weekend when I went on a trip to the Ciucaș mountains. Last time I was there, about a year ago, there was very little snow, unusually little for that time of year and the weather was foggy, so I barely saw anything around me for the best part of the hike.
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National museum of maps and old books - Bucharest
Bucharest has lots of museums, of all kinds. And, as a person born and raised here, I’ve naturally only visited a few of them. But I’ve decided to fix this 🙂 The museum I picked for the start of this venture is the National Museum of Maps and Old Books. It’s true the target public of this museum is not as wide as it is the case with most of the other museums of Bucharest, but it’s an interesting small museum.
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The fortified church from Prejmer
I finally managed to finish and post my first travel story on maptia. The story is about the Prejmer fortified church, one of the many such churches build in Transylvania after the Ottomans started invading the lands.
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Hiking in the Piatra Craiului mountains
- Irina
- Romania , Trips , Mountains , Places
Another great day in the mountains :D We made a short hike in the Piatra Craiului mountains, reached the Piatra Mică peak (1816m) and got back down.
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Hiking in the Ciucaș Mountains
- Irina
- Romania , Trips , Mountains , Places
There’s nothing like a day in the mountains! 😀 The weather was not that great (lots of fog and wind) and also there should have been waaay more snow this time of year, but we still had a great time on our eight hour hike in the Ciucaș mountains. The scenery was amazing!
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Transylvanian fortresses road trip - day 3
The last fortified church on our itinerary was the one from Biertan. It is one of the most important ones and it’s construction began in the 15th century.
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Transylvanian fortresses road trip - day 2
The second day of the trip was the day of the fortified churches of the medieval Saxons. Who were these Saxons and why did they build so many fortified churches here?
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Transylvanian fortresses road trip - day 1
awesome roadtrip in Transylvania with castles, churches and palaces
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