Today we drive the most beautiful Road in the world honestly there is so much that we could
see on this drive there's another one what the hell oh that's good there is a glacial
lake at 2,000 meters altitude that you might be able to swim in but I'm not holding us it's
gonna be really cold trying to learn how to pronounce the highway that we're going to do
Transfăgărășan let's go drive the Transfagarasan
so yesterday we filled up the car and drove to this little town that's at the southern
end of the Transfăgărășan we spent one night in this really nice Airbnb so that we could
get up early and literally start the drive on the road so we're on it right now we haven't
got to any cool stuff yet but we're straight into it I'm so excited straight onto it out of
their driveway onto the Transfagarasan Highway yeah no time in the morning
this drive is going to take us all day we've been on the
road for what 10 minutes we've already stopped it's so pretty
this road is so incredibly beautiful we have been so distracted by all of the vistas and
everything that I'm pretty sure we've missed the turn off of Vlad's Castle although we do think
it's temporarily closed at the moment so that's okay but this road is full of hair-pin turns
basically the entire way and we are taking it so slowly because of how amazing it is
everyone can pass us we don't mind
oh it's cold a little bit of history about the road it took four years to build 1970 to
1974 the leader of Romania at the time wanted a passageway through the Carpathian Mountains so
that when the Soviets came they had a place to go and they just carved up the mountain all the
way through it it's the Wiggliest line if you look at it on a map, you will ever see but it's awesome
I know who we need to speak to at Smith's to make paprika
a flavour of Chip back home but it needs to happen
oh that's so good
it just keeps getting better and better we are like surrounded by the mountain
tops now the trees are starting to be really sparse there's all these
really cool bridges that are like grass and stuff on top it is just spectacular
that's insane, donkeys
donkeys I love donkeys so much
oh
this is an unexpected amazing surprise I'm hanging out with a donkey they're
one of my favourite animals in the world just after a penguin in my wildest dreams I never
thought that this day we would be surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains petting a donkey
I'm so happy I think I'm crying I'm so happy I love them so much
hey handsome puppy
literally cry that made me so ridiculously happy she's feeding you an apple she dropped
both that was so unexpected and so perfect the beautiful mountains in the background the donkeys
at least now we've petted donkeys like if we don't see a bear I'm happy hey buddy
there's another one
all right I'm gonna try and leave now okay bye bye puppies
bye guys nothing else happens it's worth it I feel like it's actually that ending we just
was behind me in the car a lifelong dream I had no idea I had has just come true that was like
the highlight of my day by far potentially the highlight of the Romania trip so far
this has been incredible already we only just got to the point where the trees have thinned out
completely so I don't know if we're going to see any bears but the donkeys, I love them so much I
was just saying to Jordan that this has instantly become one of my like happy places like when you
do meditation they're like think back to a time that you were really happy this is it I love it
crazy
drop off there but you can see all of the crazy hairpin turns that we've been going on
so scary it is freezing cold up here now probably the most beautiful site I've seen
yeah up there with Sapa up there with Sapa in Vietnam when they were saying when we
were reading everything saying that this was like the most beautiful Highway in the
world I was like how beautiful could a highway really be mind-blowingly beautiful right now
what the hell what the heck it's like covered in mist we literally went through one tunnel and came
out with totally different weather look at the mist move over there over there the tunnels like
that they actually had to use about 5 000 tons of dynamite to make those tunnels and there's so
many of them through the rock faces here didn't realize they could change the weather though
we had dreams of a secluded Lake that we might be able to take a dip in those dreams
are very quickly crushed the weather just gets me it's crazy this fog all up the Mountainside
and then there's sheep in the distance that are just jumping over rocks it's so beautiful
we're disappearing into the Mist
not quite the sunny peaceful Lake we were expecting literally can't even see
it anymore and the water looks a little bit dirty so I'm opting out of the swim
I don't know what you're gonna do I have to touch the water so I'm just gonna put my hand in
I think it honestly would be swimmable if it wasn't gross on the top layer
there's people around us but you can't see them so you just hear like maniacal laughs from the fog
feels like we're all by ourselves what a weird day on the train transfagarasan
yeah we've seen a lot this town up here was packed as well there's like the car
park which is ten lei an hour and then there is just it is lined with stalls selling food
trinkets everything you could wish for there's police officers because it's that busy like
herding the traffic along it's crazy all the cars are moving into snail's pace but
well we got a park we've got a park now we just gotta find a bear oh
we don't think the Mist is going to clear anytime soon so we're going to go up a little bit of a
hill that we saw on the way in there's a lot of people there I don't know how Mist covered that is
it is insane how many people we're passing right now
but I feel like the whole time coming up from the side we did until we got to bâlea lake
it wasn't that busy and then we've just passed everyone that's on the Transfagarasan highway then
I guess it makes sense because that's like one of the main stops to do back to the Hair-pin turns
that is insane I thought we were like done with the trip done with
the hairpin turns but look how many there are just in this little bit
this is the view everyone wants when you come here it's pretty nice and in Winter because they
closed this half the year you can't come up here at all because it's too snowy they actually have
cable cars to take you some of the way and you can just see a little cable starting point down there
and just like that we are back in the tree line and back on bear watch I want to see one so badly
totally forgot about bears i was just transfixed by The View and the donkeys
we are almost at curtisoara which means we're almost done with the Transfăgărășan feels like
we're out of Bear Country now so I don't think we're gonna get to see one which is a bit of
a bummer but luckily we did go to Liberty bear sanctuary and that's scratched the itch a little
sincerely apologize for the pronunciation that we've used for a few different places today and
also like while we've been in Romania we've not been very good at being able to pronounce things
properly sorry about that Romanian's a tough language who knew a highway would be that much fun
no bears I tried a bear call how does a bear call sound
oh and they didn't come for that? no luck crazy surprising