Bran Castle

If you want to visit the more touristy places like Bran Castle (a.k.a. Dracula’s Castle) or Peles Palace in Sinaia we promise to give you an interesting and entertaining experience. Both are on mountaintops, so you can walk around outside for great views and fresh Carpathian Mountain air. It’s one of the day trips you don’t want to miss!

Full of legend and contrast the Bran Castle has become famous because of the Dracula movie.

Built in 1377, the Bran Castle was donated by the Brasov community to the Habsburg Empire in order to obtain some trading facilities and lower taxes. Then the castle was donated to the Queen Mary in 1920 to enter into the royal family good graces ( Ferdinand and queen Mary), but also as a token of appreciation for the sacrifice, heroism and involvement of the Queen Mary into the first world war, where next to the Romanian army they unite the three Romanian kingdoms Transylvania, Moldavia and Valacchia having as result the unified Romania.

Has became a military strategic point, with the role of protecting and control the commercial route, the movement of the tartar and Turkish ground troupes, but also for the border between Transylvania and Valacchia.

With an unique architectural style and very impressive, the Bran Castle will charm you at once.

Viscri Village

If you’re interested in experiencing authentic Romania, we can take you off the beaten path and have a real Romanian experience with our Traditional Romanian village tour or take a day trip to Sighisoara & Viscri.

It’s hard not to fall in love with Viscri – it’s like stepping into a fairy tale. You arrive into the village on an unpaved road, and when the road conditions are bad, you take a horse-drawn cart that was designed for these roads a few hundred years ago. The little houses lining the 2 or 3 roads are the original Saxon houses, many of them lovingly restored, and painted pale blue, typical of Saxon villages.

As you walk down the road, chickens are happily roaming the yards and pecking for food, residents are spotted working on some type of archaic implement that is still used for their farming. This is one of the day trips that can show you how people can live in harmony with nature.

Viscri is also home to a cottage industry for knitted goods – socks, hats, sweaters and scarves, whose income is the sole source for many households. The women producing these goods are part of an NGO founded by a German dentist who settled in Viscri after the fall of Communism. Most of the knitted products are exported to Germany, however, visitors are welcome to the sorting room where pieces are sorted by size, and also to the NGO’s quaint café and handicraft shop to enjoy a an extra large piece of home-baked cake before and purchase knitted, felt and ceramics handicrafts.

The cafe makes you feel like you’re in Hansel & Gretle’s house, and if it’s not open, just knock on the next door and the owner will welcome you and serve you one of the largest pieces of cake you’ll ever eat. A few minutes’ walk up a hill brings you to a beautiful white fortified church built in 1230. The church holds mass fortnightly and houses a museum of Saxon Heritage.

The Saxon character of Viscri has been so well preserved that the entire village has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Through a common effort of residents and the Mihai Eminescu trust, through funding from Britain’s Prince Charles many of the buildings in the village have been refurbished using exclusively traditional construction materials. One house stands out in particular, having been built several decades before the others. A typical one-room Saxon house, it contains only original furnishings, and is the favorite of Prince Charles.

Fagaras Mountains

Transfagarasan road

The nature around Brasov is fantastic, so if you want some active adventures, we can organize hiking trips, paragliding, and other outdoor activities.

When you return from vacation and think of Romania, these are the places you’ll remember as the real Romania.
On this trip, you’ll get some history (and I’ll let you in on some history in the making), one of our great mysteries, and a tradition that most Romanians don’t even know about!
The road is opened only during May till October.

Balea Lake

Located at 2034 m, it’s the higher glacier lake in Romania and to get here we take the “Transfagarasan” highway through the Fagaras Mountains, the highest and largest of Romania. Transfagarasan road was a challenge to build and it’s a challenge now for both the car and driver. This is one of our impressive day trips, with beautiful views that we can offer you.