Why ROMANIA is Europe's Next BEST Travel Destination (Sighișoara Transylvania)

Romania is the European travel experience you dream of! While so many of the most popular destinations in Europe are overrun with tourists where you have to stand in long lines and deal with high prices, Transylvania Romania offers similar, if not better, experiences without the crowds and at much lower costs.
In this travel vlog, we show you around the stunning town of Sighișoara, Romania. Join us as we tell you about the history of the town, show you the beautiful architecture, introduce you to wonderful locals, taste the delicious Romanian food, and much more!
If you’re just now finding us, this video is part 7 of 8 of our incredible two-week road trip around Transylvania. After exploring Peleș Castle, Brașov, Dracula's Castle (Bran Castle), the Transfagarasan highway, staying in a unique Romanian village farmstay,, exploring Sibiu and eating our way through Cluj-Napoca, we continue our travels to Sighisoara and show you around this incredible medieval town!
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[@pavlinpetkov8984]

Greetings to our best neighbor from Bulgaria.

[@balak1]

I am happy we became best neighbours. Being in the EU, with both good and bad, helped us a lot to become friends. Hugs from Romania!

[@TheSpeedsters86]

Cheers to our southern friends

[@ramonacucu2105]

bulgaria the best country in europe God bless you brothers from romania ❤❤❤❤.

[@Pitiplwuf]

Hello, my good neighbor

[@andradaflorea847]

Zdrasti!

[@tracyroberts7251]

Your road trip has put Romania high on my bucket list! So gorgeous. And love all the cats 🐈

[@L2Xenta]

'El Cato' is never far in Romania...

[@THEPITZU]

Hello, we were waiting for you in the city of Timisoara, ceau!

[@IsntTheInternetGreat]

I was there last week. Visited Braṣov, Bran, Sighiṣoara, Sibiu, Mediaṣ, Târgu Mureș, Predeal, among other places. Absolutely beautiful region. Ended the trip in big, imposing, crowdy Bucarest.

[@celestindimitriu3675]

As a Bucurestean I dont recommend ending a trip here but rather start it here. From bustling night life to beautiful scenery in transilvania to warm and blue waters of the sea side. Bucharest is mainly a business center and a party town.

[@tdjpopo]

That lady's courtyard, or "curte" in romanian, is so typical of what you'd find every home to have...usually covered by grape vines and surrounded by flowers! So beautiful!

[@Paul-bc3uy]

Hidden gem country

[@madalinatasha1762]

Thank you, for visiting my country❤

[@celestindimitriu3675]

in brief, Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler was a legend in Romania as he protected Europe and Tara Romaneasca from Ottoman/Muslim invasion. While his methods were indeed scary and cruel, if it wasn't for him and a few like him, perhaps Europe would have looked a bit different economically, religiously and culturally than it does today

[@LevisH21]

Vlad Tepes was a normal ruler by the standards of the past. everyone was cruel and tyrannical. I don't blame him for what he did. Romania being Christian instead of Islamic is much better. under Islam, having freedom to think and equal rights for women or other religious groups is extremely prohibited or taboo. just look at how the Taliban or Iran is treating women. pretty damn barbaric culture. stuck in 7th century. not all Islamic countries are the same of course. mayn of the rich Gulf countries are in some sense much more open but still not equal. also the only reason why these oil rich Gulf countries are more open is because they are rich and can afford themselves to be ope minded. of the Gulf states didn't have oil money, they would be no different to a fundamentalist theocratic regime like Iran. and still Saudi Arabia is a Gulf country and extremely theocratic. at least Saudi Arabia isn't into creating chaos in the Middle East, unlike Iran that sponsors terrorists like Hezbollah or the Houtis in Yemen. the Middle East is like the TV show Game Of Thrones. lots of fundamentalists that play dangerous games and kill in the name of religious sectarianism. and Islam is a war and conquest based cult. very different to Christianity in which Jesus is kinda considered a hippie peace loving guru by secular left leaning white people in America. making Jesus into some kind of Buddha figure which is extremely condescending. in America and Western Europe Christianity has become a joke. having gay marriage inside a church is beyond ridiculous. I don't have a problem against gay people but to insist having gay marriage in the church is against everything Christianity stands for. in the West, certain "Protestant" denominations are anything but Christian. they only use the image of Jesus to push left wing politics. luckily Eastern European countries are sane and not suicidal with mass migration either.

[@ferentcristian6455]

I litterally started crying when I saw that sweet grandma, she was so happy to have you there.❤❤

[@Bogdan-ej3vy]

People from Romania are very kind 🥰

[@user-yp2mw2ko9k]

@@Bogdan-ej3vy I would not say so generally, I have encountered lot of rude bipeds there; their southen neighbours in Bolgaria are much softer and more human.

[@mona.cabocmona303]

​@@user-yp2mw2ko9kYou are rude right now calling them like that.

[@misscg367]

@@mona.cabocmona303 I`m pretty sure he was born in Transilvania and doesn`t like Romanians much :) His English proves it...

[@mona.cabocmona303]

​@@misscg367Actually it doesn't matter. The fact that he labeled all Romanians he encountered like he did, it isn't ok.

[@davidellis5141]

Hope you both travel this summer ☀️ ! Fingers crossed 🤞. Love Romania 🇷🇴.

[@iulian160]

Great country and beautiful people!!

[@TheSpeedsters86]

Or Beautiful country and great people!🫶

[@alinaciobotaru7030]

A peaceful and relaxing video 🤍 Sighisoara is small but such a gem. A must see in Romania 🌸

[@ayrsen123]

Love it!!. You guys are sorely missed. Cheers from Australia :)

[@R.AlbaPalacios]

Wow! What a beautiful place, like from a fairy tale. So happy to see you both. I hope you make some more videos this summer 🤞🏻🤩

[@keithdesantis1976]

Hope you 2 are back! Missed you 2!!

[@Corvad]

Amazing videos from Romania guys, excited to see more from other cities of this beautiful country!

[@Ojstra]

Sighişoara is a dream and this video is legendary, just as Dracula (Vlad the Impaler) is. ;) I remember that in his birth house I also had an experience with a man in coffin, reddish light and alternating lighting, with nice paintings and frescas on the walls.

[@milenaundjany]

I found your profile yesterday because I am going to Lithuania soon and now I see that you just uploaded after 7 months. I watched every video. You guys rock!

[@MorganDeshayes]

I'm French and I lived in Lithuania. You will love it! ❤😁

[@celestindimitriu3675]

I’m Romanian married to a Lithuanian and can tell you you will enjoy Lithuania, dont forget to visit Palanga, Vilnius, Nida, and Trakai Castle and surrounding areas

[@georgia4708]

I assume this trip is old but it’s great to see another video from you guys! Consider making more please! Anyway, hope you are well and keep on travelling, with or without filming. 😊

[@Busha69]

Beautiful video. Romania is one of my all time favourite countries. Btw. I love visiting cemeteries everywhere I go. Of course, usually I try to go for historical ones but its always interesting to see the differences in the whole...burial culture all over the world.

[@user-ui1tz3tr7q]

Hi guys ! If you want peace, good and organic food, lots of nature and medieval town and castle, YES, Romania is the best country in the world !! 😂🎉 I love Romania !❤ Cristian

[@cosmindvd]

Thanks a lot for giving a try and visit our beautiful country that is so underrated, you are always welcome and safe here ! ( one of the safest countries in the world btw :)) )

[@mxrio.3836]

sigisoara is my familys home town, and the feelings i get visiting this city is so undescribable! thanks for showing others

[@OXANACHIROVICI]

Nice!

[@RaduRadonys]

Your videography and editing skills are excellent! Top notch! I hope you are not giving up your skills and will resume the traveling at some point :) Cheers!

[@AltsekBUL]

My God I love that channel, I am in love with that couple, nice videos!

[@Artdecocakes]

Țara mea frumoasa 🌎♥️🌎

[@feliciamartin6200]

Loved the video! Missed you guys!

[@gachamemestories2991]

I love Romania and thank you for this video guys it helps me to know more about Romania .. My boyfriend is from Romania and I cannot wait to meet him in cluj napoca …😊😊

[@delchen9702]

Thank you for continuing to spend time on of your videos. Hope you're both doing well and can't wait to see the wrap up whenever you have time to work on it and publish! Miss you both on social media!

[@BB-yi6qn]

Come to Asia. There are China Japan. South Korea. Taiwan. Thailand. Malaysia. Singapore. Philippines and Indonesia. You can have a lot of fun in Asian countries

[@andreimihaesi]

Welcoming visitors with open arms! thankyou for the kind words

[@user-qz7kd4hi2b]

So incredibly beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[@ekesandras1481]

22:20 You mix up Roman with Romanesque (the architecture style before Gothic). The church is Saxon as was the whole of the old town inside the walls. The Romanesque predecessor building was also built by the Saxons.

[@wanceterence835]

Romanians proudly lying about the history of everything as always, why u dont have any "beautiful" deep down at Moldva, and Wallachia🤣🤣🤣

[@cabanaminunata]

Romania e cea mai frumoasa tara.

[@danielilie6881]

cu cei mai haini oameni

[@mdeweerdt86]

New vid! Made my weekend! 😊

[@AsifMalik-og6np]

I am happy that you are back

[@xandru_13]

“Yeah. We are.” 😄 charming stuff 🙏 Also, saw you guys eating that Margherita, so I popped one in the oven myself. Hehe

[@zachbrown6337]

Miss you guys. This made our day!

[@cinamar221]

9:50 amazing..❤

[@cristinaaroundtheworld13]

Thanks for sharing beautiful thoughts about our country!

[@jonathanslaughter8816]

Glad to see you all posting again. Love the contact. Maybe we’ll run into each other some day 😄

[@Adrian-PetruMunteanu-rf7er]

❤ Romania

[@cristianmoroianu6716]

Visit Brașov, the most beautiful city of Romania !! ! ♥️💛💙

[@apa-nsmoc610]

Super!

[@FlorinR]

Great !! Thanks

[@2Travelis2Live]

Wow! Glad to see this posted. I hope you all are doing fine.

[@andreeaselgaardjensen5086]

Thank YOU 🎉

[@albaradu2943]

superb....

[@PaulBazgan-sj9gs]

Sehr schönes Land ist Rumänien ❤

[@bujdososzekely]

Romania was a last slavemarcket in the world . kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3enc5meh72Enbc

[@cosmicradiant5872]

Ahhh I missed your videos

[@lbunnygordon1133]

Thank you for showing this would love to go but wondering re mountains are there scenic ublic buses as asthmatic so can't go much uphill❤

[@Renegen1]

great music

[@Renegen1]

the sound mixing could use some work.

[@qwertyqwerty-zi6dr]

1. Tourism is good for the economy but it can also bring problems, we don't want to be visited by certain people who can create problems, western europeans knows better 2. In August is the most beautiful to visit Sighisoara, there are festivals with people dressed from the old times, instruments of torture are provided so you can take pictures and stuff like this, it's incredible. It is also very beautiful in December with the snow and the specific holiday decorations. 3. That lady is like probably 99% of our grandmothers, if you don't eat something when you visit them, you will be in trouble 4. I see that you have no problems with drinks with 50% alcohol and you also look like some romanians 😂

[@misscg367]

actually, she looks like Zana Surprizelor, Andreea Marin :))

[@OscarGomez-fb4qk]

Great video. Any tour agency you recommend

[@danielracovitan9779]

The towers were named after the guild that was responsible with buiding, mainainting that tower (and manning it when necessary, if under siege)

[@alexc8920]

wow, you guys came back?

[@Sofia-0001]

Loved your attention to detail. Most Transylvanian cemeteries are like that. Some of the best peaceful parks to spend time in. I also had a great teenage time, in a peaceful north Transylvanian park like cemetery. Best for learning, preparing for exams! As for the past, good to know that there was a time when indigenous Romanian majority was not even allowed to enter towns.. Or were forced to become one of the 3 privileged Transylvanian ethnic groups ( Hungarians, Saxons, Szeklers) and abandon Orthodox Christian faith, in order to keep estates and nobility titles. Like the Romanian houses of Corvin aka Hunyad, turning Hungarian in late 14 early 15 century or the house of Dragos, becoming the Saxon/Hungarian house of Dragfy. That's why you wont find many Romanian names in such Saxon or Hungarian cemeteries, even though many of those people were mostly Romanian or Slavic people in the past. In Transylvania there are entire former Croatian, Czech, Slovak settlements, fully Hungarian today, or most Szekler towns were Moldovan Romanian miners and wood cutters in the past, assimilated during the Austrian - Hungarian times. Resulting in paradox towns like Remetea or Vlahitza, which means 'the Romanians' and "little Romanian town", fully Romanian in the past, are fully Szeklers today. So that's why.

[@LeviGabriel-mb9ot]

I don't understand, what do you want to tell us?Can you be more specific?Thank you!

[@Sofia-0001]

@@LeviGabriel-mb9ot If you watched this video you'd know what I meant and I think I was clear.

[@LeviGabriel-mb9ot]

@@Sofia-0001 Where are you from? You wrote a lot...

[@Sofia-0001]

@@LeviGabriel-mb9ot From Transylvania Romania, as I said, living abroad.

[@Sofia-0001]

@@LeviGabriel-mb9ot I wrote all that because it bothers me comments like in Transylvania were mostly Saxons and Hungarians in the past, which is not the historical truth.

[@goddessIv]

Saxon: Schäsbrich. The city was founded in the second half of the 12th century by the Saxons, when they began to populate Transylvanian territories (Sibiu and Brasov, among others). For several centuries it played an important commercial and strategic role and was one of the most important cities in Transylvania.

[@user-xt7zv3xk7q]

Great an very well documented video guys... there are a few jobs available at the romanian turism minister.. would you like to take them? Any way they should pay you for this video alone...welkome back🎉

[@tanasaflorin3699]

❤❤

[@lost-together1993]

🍁 Are you guys coming back to KZbin?

[@vraciunaitro]

Awesome video ! Hope you had a good time in Romania !

[@adidvcam]

❤

[@Vasile10012]

👍👍👍

[@rachanareddy9021]

As a solo traveler can to recommend any good places to stay in Romania ? Easy on the pocket budget friendly…..

[@cinamar221]

Please visit the REAL Dracula castle in TARGOVISTE ! You will be amazed by the Royal Court of Wallachia , the Chindia Tower and the Chindia Park with statues of wallachians kings, please do it, you won't regret.

[@IonNegovan]

Wallachia has to do with the Celtic origins of the province and this should be talked about!

[@bujdososzekely]

@@IonNegovan , Wallachia ( Ungro-Wallachia) created by the Hungarian Kingdom in XIV. century from Cuman teritorys .

[@RaduRadonys]

@@bujdososzekely Get out.

[@CocoSon-we2rg]

@@bujdososzekely At Posada it was seen what he owed to that Kingdom.

[@MaximDL1410]

👏❤️✊😊

[@mihaitacostache7223]

Love romania

[@dorindorin2150]

You most visit Maramureș.Is an anothe world.

[@mesager5438]

Germans were brought in Transylvania to build cities and because Romanian population was the majoritary, spread all over this region ruled by the Hungarians, but not part of Hungary for a very long time.

[@bujdososzekely]

Wallach "romanian" migration to Transylvania , Hungary kzbin.info/www/bejne/joXHdqOYn6yXd9k

[@wanceterence835]

Romanians maximum built ghettos around Transylvania, Saxons did all the work.

[@mesager5438]

@@wanceterence835 I know that this is an ordinary challenge and I will only tell you this much, when God is with me, who can stand against me?. And consider what I said valid for all of Romania and all Romanians.

[@bujdososzekely]

@@wanceterence835 , Romania was a last slavemarcket in the world . kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3enc5meh72Enbc

[@loneycornel778]

​@@wanceterence835did you now something about this population and their behaviour? I suppose no. The most bigotry and rasist for all this time. For the history we share with this rasist, we from Romania we are to kind and stupid to describe this in nice way. 😷. Shut up and go..... 😷If they bild all this thinks, it's not my problem. They pay for all the f... we take from them.

[@gabia.6213]

❤️🇷🇴❤️❤️❤️❤️🇷🇴🇷🇴

[@LevisH21]

I think cities in Western parts of Romania like Oradea are worth visiting. Oradea is very modern looking because of recent renovations in the city center and having much better funded local government. also local people care about the city and insist politicians to take care of the city, unlike other parts of Romania. the problem in Romania is how much corruption there is in Eastern regions of the country. not all of them. for example the city of Iasi which is the 5th biggest in the country looks well funded and I think the politicians have renovated the city quite a lot. also lots of young people move to Iasi because of better schools and university. and job market. Romania is slowly urbanizing because young people wish to go to university and live in big cities. have careers that involves technology and the internet. this is the future. I hope Romania reaches the level of Austria, Estonia, Czech Republic in the next 20 years. by 2050 Eastern European countries will be on the same level as Western Europe, I hope.

[@qwertyqwerty-zi6dr]

Romania s GDP projections are insane, it is estimated that in 10 years will be 2 times more than now, around 760 Bn. $

[@anilparmar6959]

Very nice cute girl very very beautiful

[@shaman2762]

are you are only ones there??? no people😅 it looks like big village-not a city

[@Zdamaneta]

It's a small town not a village. There's difference between city, town and village.

[@RaduRadonys]

Are you blind?

[@albothug]

It’s all about Albania right now no offence to Romania 😉🤝

[@qwertyqwerty-zi6dr]

😂😂

[@ruben4447]

Romania would already be a major travel destination if Ceausescu didnt destroy a majority of traditional romanian buildings and if our government actually tried restoring old buildings. Ceausescu did the worst stuff to our traditions. There was a big earthquake in Bucharest that destroyed a majority of very beautiful historic buildings. For Ceausescu this was a good thing because he could have an excuse to not rebuild them and build communist blocks in their place. The worst thing he did by far was destroying entire neighbourhoods for his massive building which is half empty. Romania's traditions suffered a lot recently. Whats sad is that Romania has so many beautiful traditions and architecture but sadly all there is left is just ugly communist blocks. And otherwise there are beautiful towns and castles that werent even built by Romanians.

[@BaratheonRobert]

Ceausescu was probably the worst thing that ever happened to Romania.

[@ruben4447]

@@BaratheonRobert Yes but people still somehow are stupid enought to say they miss those times and life was better back then. Sadly people like that can vote. They only wanna go back either because of nostalgia or because they think life is worse now. Currently Romania is richer than ever yet people still complain. They would rather stay hours in line for bread during Ceausescu than live in this world where they literally are able to order stuff to their front door. People are ungrateful.

[@BaratheonRobert]

@@ruben4447 Yea. This is what we call a nation wide stockholm syndrome. It is actually really frequent among post socialist states especially among the older generation (probably because those times were the times when they were young).

[@ruben4447]

@@BaratheonRobert People from all sorts of countries say it was better in the past and times were simpler which is true. But that doesnt mean Communism had anything to do with it. As a matter of fact they could have had a way better life if communism didnt exist at all. If communis didnt exist they still would be nostalgic over those times.

[@CocoSon-we2rg]

@@ruben4447 The elderly have the nostalgia of youth regardless of the social system in which they lived.

[@alex..4222]

Yeah we didn't commit cultural and demographic suicide yet like the western countries did, so yeah things are good for now.

[@dlbeats6649]

i dont mean to be that guy and i love Romania i have visited many times since live in Hungary. it is a beutiful place dont get me wrong but calling it Europes next best travel destination is like calling greece the richest eu nation. a blatant lie

[@dlbeats6649]

@Marius-MihaiSandu-wm8pn yes I am sure you can. So can I without you but that has nothing to do with what I said. You neither denied or confirmed what I said. I simply said Romania Romania isn't the next best travel destination in Europe. Wich is a fact not meant to be rude

[@Die-sel13136]

there is no american or russian ori roman We are all one! We are all one! What I do to u i do 2 me!

[@qwertyqwerty-zi6dr]

No russians pls

[@Die-sel13136]

@@qwertyqwerty-zi6dr american or russian We are all one! We are all one! What I do to u, i do 2 me! Beter we cooperate & help echother 4 the good of humanity ! Pain build charecter if u didn.t suffer in this life u can.t understand! Please excuse me! i.m a disabled guy from eastern Europe i had an aneyourism that exploded in my skull few years ago Since than i.m paralised on left side! But i still have hope that the truth will prevail!

[@Die-sel13136]

@@qwertyqwerty-zi6dr american or russian We are all one! We are all one! What I do to u, i do 2 me! Maybe if we cooperate & help each other life will be nicer on this earth! We can try @ least?

[@johnnyxdyablo]

You bloggers who only visit Bucharest and Transylvania can't stand you anymore! This does not mean that you have seen the REAL ROMANIA as a country!!! But only one region of the country that only has a different zonal specificity compared to other regions of the country!!!

[@GimmeDaGun]

Why? Because of Erdély (Transylvania), which is basically historical Hungary (has been a part of Hungary for 1000 years until the Entent powers forcefully gave it to the Vlachs/today Romanians) and whatever cultural heritage you find there is Hungarian and Saxon (settlers invited by medieval Hungarian king Bela IV). Erdély still has very strong Hungarian cultural presence and while Romanians might show them as it was theirs, but all it's built heritage: castles, churches, tows, cities and traditional villages were built during the time of Hungarian Kingdom. The rest of today's Romania or rather the real Romania east and south of the Carpathians is ... well go there, see it for yourself and you'll know it.

[@flpser_ppwer]

My dear, no one disputes that Hungarians and Saxons founded most of the cities in Transylvania! I am familiar with this subject. So I know that over the course of Time, certain Hungarian historians have developed a number of theories regarding the origin of Romanians to justify Hungarian hegemony in Transylvania. Such as the "empty space theory" - when the Hungarians came from Asia to Europe, Transylvania was an uninhabited territory! This theory is rather comical. At that time, all of Europe was inhabited, including Northern Europe where environmental conditions are harsher. Or that some Hungarians claim other ineptitudes such as that ALL the population of Dacia retreated south of the Danube with Roman legions to protect the external borders of the Roman Empire. And then, the Romanians went back, but what to see, the Hungarians occupied their territory while they were absent or that Romanians came from Albania and settled in the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic area. I also think you should debate with Bulgarians. When Hungarians came to Europe, all the territory of Romania, including Transylvania, was integrated into the Bulgarian Empire, even this territory was predominantly inhabited by Romanians.

[@valentinzota8835]

My favorite is when the King of Hungary sent them to colonize Romania with a Letter from the King...why would they need a Letter if it was their own back yard? Whom were they presenting the Letter to? To the Trees?

[@GimmeDaGun]

@@valentinzota8835 You are not too big on law and legislation, are you? Why would you, your state is one of the newest ones in Europe and was constructed by the contemporary powers of Europe and not by you, while Hungary has a 1000 years advantage in the building and managing its own state founded by its own people and in the practice of law. That teerritory of the country had been depopulated by the bloody Tatar (Mongol) invasion, so king Béla IV invited in settlers (Saxons) and gave that land to them. The letter was a legislatory move from the king which by he granted the Saxons rights to settle there, own land there and trade.

[@valentinzota8835]

@@GimmeDaGun Bro...we were fighting the Roman Empire 1000 years before Hungary ever existed...the only law you know is the law of lawlessness...you have been deceived by your teachers that LIE about your history by obscuring the truth, we were first a country in the 1600 when Michael the Brave first united the 3 provinces by election and your people assainated him. But you don't know that history because you have been lied to.

[@valentinzota8835]

@@GimmeDaGun my previous rebuttal was deleted, so I'm giving it another shot: go look for Michael the Brave, he united Romania first in the 1600, but your rulers decided he was inconvenient, so ...they don't teach you that in school.

[@OVIDIU-CONSTANTINPRELIPCEAN]

Great country and beautiful people!!

[@valentinailea2700]

❤