LOST IN APUSENI

When speaking about APUSENI, we think about archaic places, ruptured from stories and ancient times that will captivate you at first sight with the incredible green landscapes of the Apuseni Mountains and much-desired inner peace. We discover together the charm of the end-of-the-world villages and the fascinating places of unreal beauty. The unique landscapes and the wonderful caves seduce the curious person to discover this world, where the inhabitants also show a great hospitality inherited from their ancestors. The harsh life of the mountains determined the Apuseni inhabitants (called “moţi”) to keep untouched the aspects of mystical and pagan superstitious thinking and much of their traditional lifestyle.The Apuseni Mountains have always been a legendary land that has offered eternal stories. In Apuseni, the nature feels like home, urging the traveler to exclaim all the time: “How beautiful it is!”Whether it’s the villages full of traditions, whether it’s a hike through the natural parks that abounds with unseen flowers or birds, or an incursion into the “golden” history of the place, the visit to the galleries of the Romans gold mines, all of these make Apuseni a unique place to be and to visit.

Day 1 – Rosia Montana

* We will drive to Rosia Montana, the place where we will spend the whole day
* Visit the Roman Gold Mines from Rosia Montana, whose gold was the major reason for wars, kings’ disputes and curses; Apuseni gold wrote a bloody history of its inhabitants.
* Next, we go up to Piatra Corbului, a natural historical Monument of Rosia Montana, a grayish-yellow rock, which took the shape of a raven in time; we admire the beautiful panorama from the top
* Visit to 3 different “tauri”, artificial lakes specific for the region of Rosia Montana, being built starting with 1733. There were more than 100 so-called tauri, of different sizes, their water being used for operating the gold dollies.
* We go back to Arieseni, a paradise where we will sleep for the next nights
* Dinner wine and good mood

Day 2 – Rimetea And Geamana Villages

* Breakfast
* After breakfast we head to Rimetea, the most beautiful village in Transylvania and Romania. Rimetea (Torockó) is the only Romanian village with the Europa Nostra Award of the European Commission for the Conservation of Material Cultural Heritage. We admire the fabulous landscapes of the Trasca Mountains and immortalize the moment.
* We visit the Ethnography Museum in Rimetea, a unique museum collection
* We serve lunch in a surprise location, where old traditional recipes are revived
* Afterwards we go to Geamana, a village covered almost entirely by the waste from the Roşia Poieni copper mine. The unreal landscape and the stories of our guide will fascinate you.
* Our last visit is at Pisoaia Waterfall, one of our favorite waterfalls in Romania. Pisoaia Falls is a splendid waterfall of over 18 meters high across the road from the Snail Hill. It is a landscaping reservation, located on a rocky limestone threshold, surrounded by a conifer-hardwood forest. Close to Pisoaia Falls is the Snail Hill. A reservation of petrified snails of various shapes and sizes, stone shells of snails that lived in these places long time ago, at the time when the Apuseni area was a great sea called the Tetis Sea.
* Dinner at the guesthouse with delicious meal, wine and a big campfire