The Beyond Journal

If you decide you are brave enough to cross the border into Moldova,  Chisinau would be the very first surprise. A city of contrasts, where the old and the new live together. Expect good hearty food, with multi-ethnic restaurants. But the best surprise of all is the wine. Red, white, rose or sparkling, Moldova has […]

Many know and come to Romania because of Bram Stoker’s Dracula story. Almost all our guests wish to visit Bran Castle, the castle referred to as Dracula’s Castle as well. Some want to visit, others just to drive by. Do you know which are the possible ways to experience this castle? Before I share those, […]

Skiing is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think Romania. Mountains here are slightly lower than the Alps, and due to the general throwback of the communist period, they’ve had a shorter history of slope management and a less established skiing tradition. That’s what brought a handful of adventure-seeking people to […]

What comes to mind when you think about Romania? Or let’s put it like that: why would you visit Romania? My answer is easy, it’s the raw beauty of its mountains and forests, the simple charm of its villages, and the honest hospitality of the people. Luckily, more and more young entrepreneurs understand this and […]

Story by Warren Singh-Bartlett Alien spaceships crashing at Roswell. The Holy Grail buried under a Scottish chapel. Lost cities of gold in the Amazon rainforest. A valley inhabited by immortals in the Himalayas. Everyone loves a tale, the taller the better. Romania, no slouch in supernatural stakes itself, has one of the tallest: it was […]

Story by Warren Singh-Bartlett One of the most visually distinctive features of Transylvania’s Siebenbürgen (Seven Fortresses) are the guild towers that line their citadel walls. Sighișoara originally had 14, nine of which remain today while Sibiu, the centre of Saxon Transylvania and the region’s most important citadel, had a whopping 40 towers, each built, manned […]