A travelogue through Romania | Transalpina

Day 17 & 18: We drive the Transalpina, but after a few hours we realize that we miss the beautiful part. Google talks about blockage, missing guard rails and that the road was never finished…well, we let it come to that, turn around, drive back (the Transalpina is somehow divided in two).

Hundreds of Mushroom hunters pull thousands of kilos of mushrooms from the forest, in large vats we know from the grape harvest. Incredibly which quantities there are.

We find a great place to sleep, one may drive on the road only from 8-18 o’clock…well we stand anyway, and do not drive. 😉🙂 In Romania it is apparently no matter, locals drive of course also after 18 o’clock around, dig for stones, etc..

In the morning then a flock of sheep near us, still spend a lot of time in the wonderful mountain area, to finally arrive in the afternoon at the castle in Hunedoara to visit.

Text and images by Gerhard Daniela Zitzmann