An incredible day of driving on the Transfagarasan highway and hiking in the Carpathian mountains of Romania.
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I made some chapters for you, guys. Enjoy! 🙂 (Gabriel, please pin my chapters as top comment – thanks).
1:00 Driving through an old village from Transylvania
2:20 Preparing to drive through the Trans-Fagarashan (epic road through the Carpathian Mountains – around 2600m alt. peaks)
5:05 Let's drive The Trans-Fagarashan now !!
6:11 Top of the mountain – Balea Lake
8:30 Roads through the misty Carpathian Central Mountains
10:28 The tunnel from Balea Lake
13:23 View of Trans-Fagarashan mountain road from above – breath-taking !!
17:37 A map for the mountain area of Balea Lac
19:24 The Balea Lake, finally the fog has gone !! Mountain weather is so unpredictable !!
22:55 Epic views down the valley from 2500m altitude !! OMG 🙂 Absolutely gorgeous !!
24:56 View of Balea Lake from above. 🙂 Enjoy the scenery.
28:16 Back on the epic road !! 🙂 Let's go, Dacia ! Such a good car. 🙂
Seems it would be an interesting place to visit in the winter too. Best wishes.
Of all the things Romania has to offer, i miss Mici the most. And Ursus beer. 😢
A Trike !
Watch out for the vampires!
Half way through this episode. One of my favorites. PNW kid here looking to travel Europe and mushroom pick and ski and hike cheap areas of europe with REALLY sluttyy girls on trail who like hairy oregonians.
To the attention of tourists:
Please stop hiking in slippers or high heels as helicopter fuel is expensive!
what lovely foggy cold views! definitely want a hot drink in those regions 🙂 thanks for giving us this Romanian exploration it has given me some food for thought if I ever go back to Europe to consider a holiday there
Don't go any further or Biden will hand you an M16 and have you shooting Russians.
Curious—have you ever been sick or had a medical emergency while traveling?
In Romania you shouldn't drink and drive. If your blood alcohol level above 0.0 you will be at least fined. Even if you do it better not to show in your videos.
Have you tried the famous mici kebabs yet?
Being that close I would be so tempted to venture into Ukraine.
Gabriel, yes, CASCADA means waterfall in Romanian.
The building where you stopped up the mountain, after the tunnel (min 13:08) is a building for Mountain Search and Rescue ("salvamont" in Romanian).
My favorite street food is the one you saw in many of the stands called "langosi" – it's like a cheese empanada – you can get it with salty cheese (feta) or with sweet cow cheese, or with other fillings (feta+dill, etc etc)… yum!!!
Hi from Arizona
Gabe, thank you for sharing interesting video and showing us beautiful places. We are waiting next video. Chaos
Be carefull, alcohool tolerance wile driving is 0 in Romania
That's a trike, Gabe!
Good video
I can't express how much these Romanian videos have captivated me. I don't save many videos—but these are so exceptionally wonderful, beautiful, etc….I zapped them right into a folder I named "travel"…to be enjoyed again and again. Something about this country is very special–thank you Gabriel—for the gorgeous photography and editing….and such a DELIGHTFUL tour of Romania.
Love all your series–but this series is a top contender for sure. What a pleasure to sit back and immerse ourselves in all this quiet loveliness. Hectic world comes to a Full Stop ♥
Beautiful, great that the fog lifted to see that stunning view. Looked like perfect mulled wine weather not sure if you could get any there though. Great video thank you very enjoyable ❤