Travel to Transylvania

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 […]

By Warren Singh-Bartlett If Transylvania’s Saxon churches, with their thick walls topped by towers, look a little like fortresses, that’s because in part, they were. Subjected to repeated invasion by the Mongols and later, the Ottomans, Saxon villagers fortified their churches, making them defensible and the larger ones even had rooms set aside for villagers […]

By Warren Singh-Bartlett Remember the legend of the Pied Piper? In 1284, the people of Hamelin, a town in the German province of Lower Saxony, hired a rat-catcher to help them with an infestation. Enchanting the rats with his music, the piper was able to lure them into a nearby river, drowning them. Possibly deciding […]

How to get up close to Europe’s magnificent megafauna If you want to see a bear in the wild in Europe, your best bet is to journey to the Carpathians. 60% of all the bears in Europe live in the region, along with wild boar, deer, foxes and other fascinating fauna like wolf and lynx. […]

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 spent a few days up in the Carpathian mountains, lodged in one of the most beautiful places in Romania, Inn on Balaban. While there, we observed and tried to take in all the beauty around us. Pictures give a taste of what it’s like to wake up in such a place. Can you imagine […]