Travel in Romania has been a pleasant surprise! Perhaps we liked the food, especially salads, a bit more in Bulgaria but, we found a salad that made us happy! Our last evening in Cluj-Napoca we had dinner at Olive Bistro – not a traditional Romanian restaurant. This salad with carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, greens and goat cheese was a nice change! It’s sprinkled with beet root powder – something new to us.
We left Cluj-Napoca on Sunday morning (less traffic!) and enjoyed the 2.5 hour drive to Sighisoara. The Romanian countryside is beautiful with green forested hills, farmland, and yellow fields of canola plants. The highways and roads are very good and even driving in cities is not worse than driving in Atlanta.
Sighisoara (pronounced “siggy-schwar-a”) is a UNESCO Heritage site in Transylvania. Some claim that it is one of the best-preserved medieval towns in Europe.
Sighisoara is a 12th-century Saxon town with a citadel, a clock tower and a Gothic church on a hill. All places we’ll explore during the next couple of days here.
There are some interesting small villages nearby that we plan to visit by car and Larry is taking some fun drone shots of the countryside. We still have lots to see during our last week in Romania! From here we’ll travel to Brasov and then end our Romanian/Bulgarian adventure in Bucharest.