The Beyond Journal

By Warren Singh-Bartlett Hero or villain? History is full of people who can be viewed as either, depending on your perspective. Take Vlad III, the Wallachian prince known in Romanian as Vlad Tepeș, or Vlad the Impaler. Bloody sobriquet aside, to the Romanians and the Bulgarians, Vlad III is a hero, credited for having kept […]

Built many centuries ago, wooden churches in Romania are still sacred spaces for prayer in some villages. The collection below is just a snapshot of a lengthier study of the history and art behind them. All the images below have been obtained from NOI Media Print. The images appear in the book entitled “Wooden Churches […]

On a photo tour in the southwest region of Romania, we drove to Prisacina, a village lost in the Mehedinti Mountains. Nature and people amazed us with their purity and beauty.

We are all different from one another, we enjoy doing different activities, our preferences are not always the same, and we never see things in a similar way. But we all want to get to know the places we travel to, as well as to understand cultures and traditions.  To do that we must get […]

Greg is our favorite guide in Transylvania. Why? He loves it. And you can see that when he talks about it, through his pictures and from all the stories that he collected in his 20 years of experience in the region. Check out a few black and white pictures he took in Viscri one early […]

We all love to party from time to time, and choosing to travel to a place with a wild nightlife is a great idea, especially if we are celebrating something. Imagine having a bachelor party in a place where everything closes at 10pm. Not the perfect destination, right? Many of you think about Berlin or […]