It is ”the best road in the world” exclaimed Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson after experiencing this mountain road. We meet at your hotel in Bucharest and start our tour by car, through the scenic Transfagarasan Road. In fact, Transfagarasan was the fruit of the twisted mind of Romania's last Communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu. In 1968, he refused to join USSR and other Warsaw Pact states in invading Czechoslovakia. Fearing reprisals from his Soviet comrades, Ceausescu planned a new, fast access of the military from Bucharest to Transylvania, therefore nowadays we discover and enjoy this costly 90 km (56 miles) road over the highest Romanian mountains (2,544 m at Moldoveanu Peak).

Transfagarasan ends near Cârta Abbey – a former catholic monastery – today an evangelical church – built around 1200 by Burgundian Cistercian monks.

While in Sibiu (Hermannstadt), after a short rest, we have a guided tour of this famous Medieval city. It is said that Hermann, the XII century German settler who gave the name of the city, Hermannstadt, was a skilled furrier from Nürnberg.

We enjoy the sights at the glacier Bâlea Lake (2,034 m) - the highest point of Transfagarasan mountain road.