Romania Has It All. Part 2: Beautiful Cities and Countryside

In Romania, we rented a car, and it made all the difference. Public transportation is great and all, but with a car, we got around the country so much faster, and were able to see even more of beautiful Romania. Victor and I both agreed that one of the highlights of our trip was the time driving through the beautiful countryside, mountains, and tiny villages of Romania. 

Romania has it all: picturesque and charming European cities, and some of the most beautiful and fertile countryside in the world. (Romania also has it all if we're talking communist architecture as well, but we'll leave that out of it!)

By the way, I feel like I should pitch my "Romania has it all" slogan to their tourism people, or try to get them to sponsor these posts or something...

Anyway, first there was Sighisoara, Romania, the birthplace of Vlad Tepes aka Dracula. It was such a cool city. 

left: in front of Vlad's birthplace

And then there is Sibiu, the Cultural Capital of Europe 2007, and they are proud of it!

And let's not forget other beautiful cities like Cluj Napoca, Sinaia, Brasov, Constanta, and dear old Bucharest. Yes, even Bucharest has old European charm, if you know where to go! Who needs Paris when you have Bucharest?? That should be another tourism slogan of Romania...

 And then there is the beautiful countryside. I just wish I took more pictures, but it's hard in a moving car. But this was our scenery...

another medieval fortified church

And this was the local traffic...

Oh, Romania, we love thee.