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In 1856, the two principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia secured their autonomy and ended the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire. In 1859 they united, and a national identity was born, adopting the name Romania in the following years. Formal recognition of its independence occurred in 1878. Following World War II, Romania was occupied by the Soviets, and a "people's republic" was formed in 1947. From 1965, under the regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu, the Romanian people suffered impoverishment and oppression, until his overthrow and execution during the Revolution of 1989. Recent political events have seen Romania become a full member state of the European Union in June 2007. To Be Updated

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By shilpa_dara
May 26th 2007

Romanian Hospitality: On our way to Maramures

Europe » Romania » Maramures

There is no retirement age here!
The villagers at work in Rohia.

We started our drive for a region called the Maramures. Reading about this area was really what enticed us to visit Romania. Due to its geography, the huge mountain range, it has been seperated from the rest of Romania. So it really did feel like going back 100 years in time and some of the villages felt untouched by modern times. Our first stop was a Cluj Napoca, a large university town, with lots of cafe bars. We only stopped briefly as we were excited to head to the more medieval Romania. Travel distance by this time we had realised took [View Full Entry]

By Bron1
May 25th 2007

The Hollywood of Romania

Europe » Romania » Transylvania » Brasov

Welcome to Brasov

The Hollywood of Romania, Transylvania. Thats what this area should be called just because of the white nametag signs on both Brasov an Rasnov mountains, quite funny to look at :) I arrived on Tuesday at midday after 16hrs on the night train, an experience in itself. 6 beds, 3 on each side in a small cabin, shared with two romanians that couldnt speak english. One was so large that she could nearly not fit in the bed space and was a rival for the snoorer in Newquey, not much sleep when she was! The other seemed quite nice, she [View Full Entry]

By shilpa_dara
May 24th 2007

Down from the Hungarian hills to Romania

Europe » Romania » Oradea

Stork nests on lamposts
Not sure if the local council provides these nests for the storks or if they are squatting! but allmost every lampost had a nest on top

We spent the last couple of days trvelling from Bukk national park to the Romanian border. Once out of the hills in the north, Hungary is as flat as a pancake. The bridge over the motorway is the biggest hill we have gone over in 6 hours driving. We have come from one of the best campsites in Hungary in Bukk to the worst campsite in Hungary in Miskolc. The guy running it had the cheak to try and charge us 20 euro (twice the price of the best campsite). After investigating the rusty, filthy cold showers we haggled him down [View Full Entry]

By Dannyintheworld
May 21st 2007

My last 2 weeks...

Europe » Romania » Pitesti

cultural chat
:P

Hello ppl Here i am again, with a few hours to spend for me. During the last 3 weeks my life was split in between AIESEC Pitesti, AIESEC Romania and AIESEC Lithuania. Financial management, Conference management, training development, agenda development, match and search tools,.......and so on. But here i am ready to post some pictures from the last conferences that i have attended in Romania. One of them is LTS (Local Training Seminar) made by my Home LC (Pitesti) for new members and the 2nd one is ICPS (International Cultural Preparation seminar). The conferences were great, loads of [View Full Entry]

By Elena_Alexia
May 20th 2007

From a capital to another

Europe » Romania » Transylvania » Sibiu

The Council Tower

"Use the blessed chance - that of being a human - to make the world better, fairer and more beautiful, not only for mankind but for the whole nature!" Herman Oberth - one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. After 3 wonderful days in Sighisoara we were heading towards Sibiu. Bought ourselves tickets to the mini-bus and 2 hours later there we were! Since Friday the weather was very very hot and the Sunday noon ride was a nightmare - I ve promised my self I ll never travel in a mini-bus (peasants traveling with frozen lambs in their [View Full Entry]

By Elena_Alexia
May 19th 2007

A fairy tale in Sighisoara...

Europe » Romania » Transylvania » Sighisoara

The Clock Tower
U can run but u cant hide from it...

... Life is the road and I wanna keep going Love is a river and I wanna keep flowing, Life is a road now and forever.. a wonderful journey! Veni, vidi, vici.. actually Sighisoara conqured me!... nothing I could write can describe the feeling I had while I was staying there... First thing I noticed when I arrived there was the train station...not very clean and first impression always counts for foreigners. Coming from Bucharest Im very used to crazy taxi drivers who try to overcharge the clients but I was amazed to meet really polite and honest people. It was [View Full Entry]

By Svartehavet rundt
April 16th 2007

Med harelabb gjennom Romania

Europe » Romania

Sykkelvoktere
Utenfor hotellet i Braila ble sykler og bagsje voktet av profesjonelle vokterhunder

Etter to harde dager fortjente vi å slappe litt av, og gnagde oss bare fem mil videre neste dag, til industribyen Slobozia. En by som vi vil huske for utflytende sentrum og sitt labre utvalg i billige hotell og spisesteder. Veien videre neste dag bragte oss ca ni mil over den paddeflate Donausletta til Braila, administrasjonssentrum for fylket av samme navn. Her la vi inn en hviledag, som ble brukt til å rusle rundt i byen og få tak på sentrum. Dette er ikke nødvendigvis en enkel oppgave i byene som har hatt kraftig vekst under Ceausescu - man kan [View Full Entry]

By Lee Clare
April 3rd 2007

Romania

Europe » Romania » Bucharest

Maramures

We had a wonderful couple of weeks in Romania as you can probably tell by our inability to choose between the photos we have taken (sorry I know there are a lot for this one!) First stop Bucharest what a random city it is! It is Chisinau's grown up prettier sister! By that there are amazing Parisian avenues, albeit a little rough around the edges, but there are also blocks and blocks of communist concrete disasters. It was once called the Paris of the east, a claim made by most of the Eastern European cities we have visited, but after [View Full Entry]

By Chris Alecia
April 3rd 2007

Spring is coming...

Europe » Romania » Transylvania

gate
tin plates in villages noted what you had to bring in case of fire...

Dear All, It has been a while since our last update but in retrospect the pictures, until recently have been rather dull. But now that the dark and stormy months seem to be passing into a spring time we are coming out of hibernation and have some pictures and stories to share. For the most part, life in Odorhei/Undvarhely is increasingly busy. Alecia is deep into the fruit project with Agora and we have had several meetings with various folks in the villages regarding re-vitalizing traditional fruit drying practices and creating some traditional product focused cooperatives. People have [View Full Entry]

By spiridus
April 1st 2007

Lovely spring day

Europe » Romania » Bucharest

It's a lovely spring day here in Bucharest, a perfect day for new beginnings, so I got set to start-up a blog about this summer's travel expedition: Bucharest-Budapest-Vienna-Aachen-Paris-Amsterdam-back home While searching for tips from fellow travellers, I'll post here all the inspiring insights, my top 10s, my must-see lists, well-seasoned with images from local Bucharest. It's nice to have a place to collect all the ideas and then, in August, you read my footsteps while I'll be live blogging from all the wonderful places I'll be visiting. To a wonderful travel experience to begin! S [View Full Entry]

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