Romania's PRETTIEST Castle | Sinaia, Romania Travel Vlog - Peles Castle, Cota 2000, & Transylvania!

Travel Vlog #110 | Sinaia, Romania
Country 29/193
Today we're visiting one of Europe's most beautiful cities - Sinaia! When researching where we wanted to go in Romania, visiting Sinaia was a no brainer.
We hopped in our rental car in Bucharest, and drove straight through to Sinaia! Our first stop was Cota 2000, a cable car that takes you 2000 m up a mountain! We LOVE cable cars, so it's no surprise we loved this entire experience. This was by far the fastest cable car we've ridden on haha. After marveling at the Romanian mountains, we quickly made our way to Peles castle - right before it closed. We got a quick tour of the inside of what we think is Romania's PRETTIEST castle (just enough time to know we need to come back for the full tour), and then headed outside to enjoy the castle from the outside, which is what we think the best part of it is! We spent quite a bit of time outside reading up on some history of the castle as well as trying to capture its beauty from every angle (you just can't capture it!) We did get some great drone shots though!
We checked into our hotel later that night, which happens to ALSO be a castle! We'll be showing a full tour of that in the next vlog! We are SO excited to explore this new (to us) country, so make sure to subscribe to see our 6?? videos from Romania!
Thanks for watching :)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chapters (click to skip)
00:00 - Intro
01:15 - Cota 2000
04:29 - Sinaia from Above
05:16 - Driving to Peles Castle
05:49 - Inside Peles Castle
07:20 - Peles Castle by Drone
09:17 - It's Corn!
09:42 - What's next?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
We're Ashley & Christian, a mid-20’s couple on a mission to see every country - with no time limit.
We'll be uploading the vlogs from our trips over the past year as well as new vlogs, FAQs about frequent travel, packing videos, how to plan your own trips, etc.
While we currently work full-time jobs to support our passion, we will be working towards a year of FULL-TIME travel in the future!
Follow us on our adventures!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
***Facebook: / ashleyandchristianyoutube
***Buy us a coffee! www.buymeacoffee.com/ashandch...
***All music is from Epidemic Sound! Get one month free :) ~ www.epidemicsound.com/referra...

[@explorinwithlaurin]

That castle is wild!! So crazy to see mid-evil architecture

[@AshleyandChristian]

One of the coolest we've seen for sure!

[@carteunu467]

Peleș Castle is not medieval. It was built between 1873 and 1914. This makes it rather contemporary for a castle. 🏰

[@AndreiMihaiGratie]

Howdy! Sinaia is not in Transylvania, but in the north of Muntenia. Transylvania starts from the old border town, Predeal, which separated the Kingdom of Romania from Austria-Hungary until 1918.

[@AshleyandChristian]

Ah our mistake! Thank you 😊

[@AndreiMihaiGratie]

@@AshleyandChristian , no problem. It's ok, not much peoples knows this little thing, not even Romanian.

[@ionelghiorghita688]

There are also a very few people knowing that the Peleș Castle cost pretty same amount as the building of Parliament but all the romanians are proud of Peleș and King Carol but shamed by Ceausescu. The people memorie is short and they don't even remember that 90% of the population was peasants working barefoot till late in the autumn when Peleș was built but they blame Ceausescu for a similar value building, built with the romanians resources not bringing specialists from Italy and in the moment when the romainian industry was in its maximum of capacity.

[@shapeoftimes]

I love Sinaia and Peles Castle is beautiful, although my favorite is Bran Castle, it's a little smaller and cozier 🙂 Cheers from Canada!

[@AshleyandChristian]

We loved Bran too! It felt more homey haha

[@ionicafardefrica]

it's a bit sad you guys were so late there. The castle has 3 floors and you can visit all of them. There's also a smaller one nearby (Pelisor, like 100 meters from the main one), which server as a wing of the castle. More opulence can be found there, with a room of mirrors, one entirely covered in gold plating and another with turkish hand made textiles. You missed on quite a bit

[@AshleyandChristian]

Timing was not on our side that day 😫 we had a few car issues earlier in the day we didn’t include. With all that being said, just another good reason to go back!

[@JustinBrehm]

Great video from you both. Can't wait to watch more

[@AshleyandChristian]

Thanks so much! Lots more to come ☺️

[@Cristian-ej9nk]

Nice views

[@peacefulhideaway]

So happy you guys had a good time in our country! I really appreciated how beautifully you honored it in your video and hope you'll visit again! 🙏❤

[@AshleyandChristian]

Thank you so much!! That means a lot 😁 we would love to come back again! But we still have 6 videos to post from Romania!

[@clarakam3858]

Thank you again for your visit..i see know you saw Peleș Castlle..in another video wrote to you to go😆 and know i see you saw it! I am glad! This was the castlle of our royal family. Send you love! Thank you for the visit 🥰🥰🥰

[@AshleyandChristian]

Haha yes it was our first Romanian castle!! So beautiful!

[@MattandRachelTravel]

Would love to visit Romania and see all the beautiful castles. Little intimidated by all the swords 😅but looks beautiful otherwise!

[@AshleyandChristian]

Haha they're secured!! But yes Romania is probably my top pick for castles, there's so many!

[@meltonsonthemove]

I am a castle lover. I went to Neuschwanstein Castle in 2001 and it has by far been the coolest thing I have ever done. I am so glad to see that other countries allow you to go and tour. It looks absolutely amazing.

[@AshleyandChristian]

We also love Neuschwanstein! The location of it is incredible.

[@emmasmith6849]

You guys made a better job at advertising Sinaia than our own government from Romania. I was there and it's exactly like you described it, beautiful

[@AshleyandChristian]

Glad we can positively share your country! We really loved Romania, there's so much to do and it's so beautiful

[@pureheart3552]

thanks guys am new subscriber

[@DailyPassenger]

This particular video made me ur fan ❤ eagerly waiting for the next vlog to see more of Romania.......plss bring it fast..

[@AshleyandChristian]

Thank you so much!! Next Sunday will be our next video - it's a cool one!!

[@kaylaandmarkalan]

I’m not a cow petter! 😂 The architecture is just gorgeous! Glad you guys were able to go inside before they closed too!

[@kaylaandmarkalan]

ITS CORN.

[@AshleyandChristian]

Haha IT HAS THE JUICE

[@ioanamadalinamersoiu5970]

❤️

[@averageyoutuber9967]

Great video,go to castle corvinilor it’s also great from outside

[@user-xt7zv3xk7q]

Well ... nice video well documented but Sinaia is not in Transylvsnia...it is stil in Wallachia.. Transylvania starts from Predeal northword

[@AshleyandChristian]

Thank you for the information!!

[@nainasingh8932]

Any language barrier as such in Romanian prime cities/towns, I meant do people follow English as primary/secondary language ?

[@AshleyandChristian]

We really only had issues when we needed something more detailed! Like at the train stations, very specific grocery store ingredients, things like that. Google translate was really helpful and it didn't feel like too much of an issue :)