Via Transylvanica Hike in Romania 🇷🇴 What you need to know

[@Wild__FPV]

This Via Transylvanica hike looks absolutely stunning! Romania's natural beauty shines through. 🌲🏞

[@cravetheplanet]

Thanks so Much

[@Metal0sopher]

@@cravetheplanet When people set up KZbin chanels there should be a mandatory 30 minute instruction video on cinematography and sound editing. This video is unwatchable. It's also really annoying that people want to make money from KZbin but are unwilling to put any effort in learning the craft. There is a reason some chanels can get 100000 subscribers in a year, while others never break 1000, in years.

[@cravetheplanet]

@@Metal0sopher great advice thanks

[@dhanyrafael]

You are awesome, don't bother with negative and toxic people on in the internet and even in real life. I really enjoyed it. I want to see amazing places, I don't care about every technical detail of making videos, I am an ignorant, too, like most of us. We aren't all Steven Spielberg and even him did some bad movies. @@cravetheplanet

[@mikeblackist]

@@Wild__FPV There are better views, trust me, but only if you were born there, and travelled for nine consecutive years like I did. Every week a new spot… hundreds of fresh rivers, Caves, and all kinds of mines, secret passages etc. It is indeed full of mystery. I have watched countless KZbin videos and still haven't seen those secret places where I was as a child. I hope it stays that way.

[@cheeseflavoredsoda3262]

Wow, that looks gorgeous! Thanks for showing us this beautiful sight!

[@cravetheplanet]

Romania is awesome

[@naiman4535]

WOW - I have spent a lot of time living in Romania as an American who speaks the language, and I have never heard of the Via Transylvanica! I will definitely ask my Romanian friend Sam, who knows the Carpathians like the back of his hand, about it. One thing your otherwise great video lacks is a map of the route - so I paused your video and googled up a map of its route. And definitely, it is a long and ambitious journey, which goes from Bucovina, around Suceava, in the northeast corner of Romania, to Banat in the southwest of Romania, near the hot springs resort of Baile Herculane (The Baths of Hercules) established by the Romans way back in antiquity. Romania is a country about the size of Oregon, and at a similar geographical latitude as that American state, by the way. From the maps I was able to google up, it seems like the Via Transylvanica does not actually go along the crest of the Carpathian Mountains, which would take it up to around 2.500 meters or around 8000 feet in elevation, but rather, that it winds and meanders through the hills and valleys of Transylvania north of the Carpathians - hence the trail's name. I even saw a video in Romanian about the Via Transylavanica - every interesting!

[@cravetheplanet]

Wow yes it’s meant for easy hikes that anyone can do and they avoided the hard mountains. Though I certainly want to try that also! I need to make better videos for sure this was just iPhone goofing off

[@naiman4535]

@@cravetheplanet Don't deprecate yourself too much, Crave - it was still a great video! Perhaps your next video about the "Trans-Camino" can go into more geographical detail about the route.

[@naiman4535]

My former neighbor in Gura-Ocnitei, a small town outside of Targoviste that is nestled in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains, was my main teacher about Romanian history. One of the things that he told me is this: The forest is a brother to all Romanians.

[@BugyrGames]

Padurea ii fratele romanului

[@naiman4535]

@@BugyrGames Bineinteles! Asa a zis prietenul meu si Naiist nemaipomenit Marian Ionescu.

[@cravetheplanet]

That is beautiful I’m going to quite that if it’s okay??

[@naiman4535]

@@cravetheplanet Yes, you can quote it.

[@severmiu9097]

​@@BugyrGames codru-i frate cu românul. "Codru" is masculine, "pădure", feminine

[@calinrusu2962]

Greetings from Via Transilvanica, it passes one mile away from my place. Happy that you liked it!

[@cravetheplanet]

Oh wow do you see hikers along the trail ?

[@mikeblackist]

I can't wait to move back to my country. 😎 I have been all over Romania during my childhood years. For 9 years I travelled continually. But those mountains used to be full of ancient trees 25 years ago. Now they look so empty…

[@cravetheplanet]

There were some places we went through with gorgeous old growth forest.

[@mikeblackist]

I can't wait to move back to my country. 😎 I have been all over Romania during my childhood years. For 9 years I travelled continually. I miss it…

[@cravetheplanet]

@@mikeblackist when will you move back

[@mikeblackist]

@@cravetheplanet I just moved back to Hungary after 15 years in the UK, I lived in the Netherlands, all around Spain, and the Canary Islands. For most of my life. Now I'm in Budapest with my family. So I dunno exactly when, I will go to Romania I haven't been there in like 25 years lol…If not this winter, next spring for sure. I'm planning an all-around trip. I want to go back to all those places from my childhood. Many of them, it'll be very emotional I think…

[@cravetheplanet]

@@mikeblackist I imagine it will be. I'm not even from Romania but the quiet places evoke so much feeling.

[@1minotm1]

As a romanian I'm happy to hear what you say about Via Trasilvanica.

[@storiestellr]

after our chat on my Camino video, I had to check out your channel. What a great find! excellent.

[@cravetheplanet]

thanks so much!

[@cravetheplanet]

i'm going to the frances in May so hoping to do better with capturing memories esp for those that cannot walk

[@EnHacore1]

Thank you for showing our beautiful Romania

[@cravetheplanet]

@@EnHacore1 it is surprisingly beautiful in the small moments . Love it

[@kypsunrider5983]

Via Transylvanica is for everyone who wants to hike with a pair of hiking shoes..any1 can do it...and thats the beauty of it!!

[@78IVFXXCHJJY]

Yes

[@josefkonig2246]

Dabea astept să fac drumeție pe via Transilvanica!

[@naiman4535]

By the way - after finishing the hike of the Via Transylavanica around the hot springs resort of Baile Herculane, whose healing waters attract medical tourists from all over Europe, you would definitely be ready for a long, hot soak in the healing waters yourself! But if you're hiking the trail in the other direction, you're out of luck!

[@naiman4535]

Another footnote here is that in Romania, Balneotherapy, or therapeutic bathing in the waters of hot springs, is a recognized subspecialty of medicine, and medical students go to school specifically to train in it. There are many different balneotherapy resorts scattered all throughout Romania, large and small, world famous and not so well known, that employ a lot of different and innovative therapies to restore health. For example, there are old salt mines that are way deep down within the earth where people with respiratory ailments and conditions go to to breathe air with salt ions in it in a high pressure, hyper-baric environment - this liquefies and loosens up tough phlegm accumulations in the lungs so they can be coughed up and expelled. Different minerals in the water are medically recognized as having different therapeutic properties.

[@chrishiking8818]

Great video, looks amazing and so beautiful

[@cravetheplanet]

It was!

[@andrei-mihaimunteanu8759]

i love your sun glasess , can let me now were to find sun glasess?

[@cravetheplanet]

@@andrei-mihaimunteanu8759 thanks I love them they are so comfy nd actually keep the sun out. They are Oakley Suutro. I got mine at a sports store in chamonix but I think they are easy to get online or at any sporting store that is more fancy than decathlon

[@doreloloier4066]

Thanks

[@lafano]

Stunning views. Thankyou but why do you don't take off your sunglasses

[@cravetheplanet]

Cause I’m shy

[@andrei-mihaimunteanu8759]

Respect

[@cravetheplanet]

@@andrei-mihaimunteanu8759 thanks

[@Postcard_Perfect]

How long does it take? I am Romanian and it sounds like something I want to do to reconnect with my family and country… living in Us now 😊 Thanks!

[@cravetheplanet]

Oh my- it’s 1400 km so you could spend two months but most like to do a section. We loved the bucovina part because my friends are from toplita. It was easy to get to and we finished at the tasculesa headquarters as they have dormitories there and we learned about the trail and volunteers. It’s really cool- we were half Romania and half American on our hike

[@Postcard_Perfect]

@@cravetheplanetThank you! Yes, everyone loves that part of the country 😍. How much did you spend in a week or month? Do you have any other cheap locations you recommend around Europe? I am planning a year around Europe… Thank you! 😊

[@cravetheplanet]

@@Postcard_Perfect we spent 4 days hiking…. We did a about 30 euros per day person but picked kinda nice places

[@cravetheplanet]

@@Postcard_Perfect Romania is pretty cheap- about 20-30 a day for food and accommodations on the trail but we stayed in nice places.

[@cravetheplanet]

@@Postcard_Perfect Montenegro is also awesome

[@strawanza2502]

Die is auf alle Fälle auch auf unserer Liste ;)

[@cravetheplanet]

a really wonderful trail when the wildflowers are in high bloom...we are going back again in July

[@tudorvoroneanu9688]

You can also mountains climb,hike in Romania

[@cravetheplanet]

Going back next summer any recommendations

[@valentinzota8835]

​@cravetheplanet If you're coming in the summer, you should aim for August as there's a very special event on the 6th of August on Ceahlau mountains...you can witness an Energy Pyramid forming for a few moments if you're there on the Sunrise...God will speak to you.

[@margelatutrandafirulgalben3156]

Nice

[@Retrogamer71]

How much of 1400km can you realistically walk on a leisure trip?

[@cravetheplanet]

@@Retrogamer71 that’s pretty much up to you. We just do an awesome 4 days but we have tween kids . I’ve got some online friends that have done the whole thing but they are more retirement aged and probably have more time

[@samdavies1858]

Great video, definitely spiked my interest in this hike, planning on doing the whole thing next year. I know you stayed in accommodation, but do you know if it would be possible to wild camp along the trail? Can't really find any information about rules.

[@cravetheplanet]

@@samdavies1858 I had a discussion with the founders of the trail about wild camping. They said that they didn’t encourage it because the whole point of the trail was to bring business to these micro villages in the middle of nowhere, but it’s very simple to wild camp. You are going to deal with Shepard‘s dogs, bears and wild pigs though. There’s so much wild space between villages

[@samdavies1858]

@cravetheplanet I figured that would be the case, I'll probably take my tent so I can mix it up but try and stay in places more often than not. I've seen some videos of people dealing with shepherd's dogs and looks pretty intense, probably more scary than the bears 😂

[@cravetheplanet]

@@samdavies1858 agreed. The dogs can be intense - tbh I’d just ask to camp in someone’s back garden near village. People are super nice. Dogs are loud at sunset in villages they all sing

[@PopescuSorin]

cool sunglasses

[@cravetheplanet]

Thanks

[@florincristia3692]

Bravo! Bineti ati venit in Romania! ( un vampir din Brasov Transilvaania Romania!)❤😂

[@naiman4535]

Second by the way - I had an astrology teacher or mentor in Romania who hiked the Camino de Santiago.

[@stefanpestritu2308]

Have you encountered bears?

[@cravetheplanet]

No we did not. We saw a footprint in the mud though

[@stefanpestritu2308]

@@cravetheplanet you were lucky trust me

[@cravetheplanet]

@@stefanpestritu2308 I was mor worried about dogs really

[@stefanpestritu2308]

Dogs are everywhere but trust me, bears can be problematic. I would advise having bear spray if you didn't have already

[@mircea277]

nice !

[@Vasile10012]

🌟

[@zianniculae6700]

❤️💚💙

[@reloadedvlad]

you are definitely going to loose weight. but it depends a lot on how much of it you're doing. doing just one day yes you will not loose anything. but if you do at least 5% straight then you will for sure loose weight . the only "discomfort" for me is that I can only do this when my job allows so usually 2xdays during the weekends and then back to work for the week

[@cravetheplanet]

@@reloadedvlad yeah it’s tough with work to get a full month or two

[@reloadedvlad]

@@cravetheplanet 1 month or 2 ? thats like full cover. literally thats how long it should take to do it all. I do plan though something like this or at least close to this. 3-4 weeks at least.i do hope not to get scared out like few days in

[@cravetheplanet]

@@reloadedvlad it’s an 1100 km trail - way beyond my capacity but one day I hope to

[@reloadedvlad]

@@cravetheplanet btw its 1400 km now :) its way more than my capacity too but you can get used to walking 20-30km/day. there are persons that completed this in 52 days (walking day by day + something extra whenever possible + tent), than another dude in 26 days (jogging/running whenever possible, no tent), i think the record was this guy that did it in 15 days (no tent as far as i know). crazy

[@cravetheplanet]

@@reloadedvlad 15 days!!! Wow

[@marioararodicaiacobescu9895]

Subtitrare în limba română…..???!!💐❤️💐

[@cravetheplanet]

@@marioararodicaiacobescu9895 ❤️

[@dhanyrafael]

You pronounced excellent !! That's a very hard word for a stranger !! Maybe the NGO should change the name to something easier to pronounce by people. Even myself as a native speaker have some issues with that word. 😅

[@radupescarus7658]

Arnold Schwar...a schimbat ceva?

[@cravetheplanet]

thanks...do you mean i pronounced via transilvanica correctly? romanian is really hard for me...

[@dhanyrafael]

Tășuleasa Social. :) Via Transilvanica is easy to pronounce. @@cravetheplanet

[@1minotm1]

Ai vazut tu pe careva p-afara sa-si puna nume in functie de capacitatea strainilor de a-l pronunta?

[@dhanyrafael]

Daca vrei sa atragi straini, sa faci marketing, pui un nume mai "international". Puteau pune Bistrita. Bine totusi ca nu au pus Bargaului, ar fi fost si mai greu. @@1minotm1

[@sygmarvexarion7891]

Also be prepared to fend off sheep dogs from the sheep farms dotting the hills because the workers let them run free and they get territorial and aggressive when they're in a pack.

[@cravetheplanet]

We were lucky - in a large group and loud. The only dogs that followed us were so cute we wished to take them home and adopt

[@stefanpestritu2308]

Bears are the real problem

[@dhanyrafael]

Yes, Via Transilvanica is dangerous because of sheep dogs roaming free and the brown bears (Romania has the largest population of bears in all Europe, except Russia of course if we consider them in Europe anymore). So it's a must to travel it at least with another person. @@cravetheplanet

[@cravetheplanet]

Agreed...groups are a good idea@@dhanyrafael

[@dhanyrafael]

Drink "palinca" with moderation. It's worse than vodka.

[@cravetheplanet]

it's awful. whew. but you have to accept in teh guesthouses and with aunties...😢

[@cravetheplanet]

@francophile4082 of course and everyone has their own from the garden

[@ppn194]

Via Transilvanica