Transfagarasan Highway Balea Lake and Carta Monastery from Brasov
Description
You will be taken from your hotel in Basov by a professional guide and you will go to the most spectacular road in Europe - Transfagarasan. We will stop first and visit the Carta Monastery built in the late Gothic style, by the Cistercian monks who came to Transylvania from Burgundy - France. Transfagarasan Highway is the most spectacular and beautiful mountain road in Europe, enough to feature on the UK motor show Top Gear, Transfagarasan Highway might just be “the best road in the world” as Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson claimed. It's a road going up in the mountains and unites Transylvania with Valachia. Great scenes, noisy waterfalls, Glaciar Balea lake, will make you feel great up there and forget about the stress of the city. During the winter, between the months of November and July, we will go up by van to the hotel Balea Cascada 1446, from where we will take the cable car (from here up the road is closed due to snow). The price of the cable car is not included .
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It is the most spectacular and beautiful mountain road in Europe, enough to feature on the UK motor show Top Gear, Transfagarasan Highway might just be “the best road in the world” as Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson claimed. It's a road going up in the mountains and unites Transylvania with Valachia. Great scenes, noisy waterfalls, Glaciar Balea lake, will make you feel great up there and forget about the stress of the city
It is a glacial glacial lake situated at an altitude of 2034 m in the Fagaras mountain .Surrounded by mountains offers a miraculous view around it .It has a maximum depth of 11 m and its peels can be seen, how to swim trout.In winter, near the lake, you are building the ice hotel, an ice church and an igloo. we can visit them and try rooms and cool ice beds.
We will visit this beautiful monastery built in the late Gothic style, by the Cistercian monks who came to Transylvania from Burgundy - France
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Pickup Locations & Times
We will come pick you up from your hotel/accomodation.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Between November 1st and July 1st, after 1460 the road is closed, here at Hotel Balea Cascada we will climb our car and then we will take the cable car to Lake Balea. The tickets from the cable car are not included in the ticket price. Cost of about 12 euros up and down
Reviews(35)
Amazing tour , amazing guide , very professional and friendly as well , highly recommended. Very clean car, very comfortable, very happy about this trip
It is worth every cent! Very helpful host and very flexible in case what you can see. Would recommend to everybody. We have used also another tour provider and we really liked this one more than others.
Our guide did a great job explaining everything. He made sure we saw everything.
Our expectations were meet over and above what we imagined. The tour guide Daria was knowledgeable and expressed the relative information of our tour clearly and accurately while maintaining your interest at all times. She was able to communicate clearly and precisely and also had an extremely capable ability to navigate the twisting winding mountain roads of the tour. We had a wonderful time and highly recommend this tour with Daria to all planning this excursion. Thank you Daria.
Thank you for the wonderful review, George! We are so happy to hear that everything - from the booking to the schedule and communication - met your expectations. It is wonderful that the visit to Transfagarasanului was such a memorable moment and that the tour made it easy to explore this mountain road and the Cistercian monastery of Carta in one day. We will definitely pass on your kind words to your guide Daria - she will be delighted to hear that her knowledge and stories made the day even more enjoyable. We would love to have you again for another adventure in Romania! Best regards Traian B
Trip with Daria was amazing, she was lovely to us and give us lots of helpful informations about the tour, we spend great time with her and I highly recomend to everyone book that tour :) The views of the mountains are outstanding.
Thank you for the wonderful review! Daria will be delighted to know that she managed to offer you a wonderful day on this tour with a visit to the Transfagarasan and the Cistercian monastery Carta. We are glad that you liked the places you visited. The Transfagarasan truly offers dreamlike images and up there is a corner of heaven. Best regards Traian B
Not only one of the most beautiful mouintans i've ever seen in my life and shockingly beautiful monastry, but also free bear meeting included!
Thank you for the review. I'm glad you enjoyed the Transfagarasan and the Cistercian monastery of Carta. The encounter with the bears was also a pleasant surprise for everyone. I look forward to your return and to offering you other memorable adventures in Transylvania. Best regards Traian B
Traían was wonderful! We had a fun-filled adventure around Transfagarasan, Balea Lake, and Carta Monastery. He was super accommodating and made sure we had a memorable day.
Thank you for the review. We are happy to hear that you had a beautiful and memorable day on this tour Transfagarasan highway-Balea glacial lake-Carta Cistercian monastery. We look forward to your return to Transylvania and to showing you other tourist attractions. Best regards Traian B
All was great. Thank you for unique experience
Thank you for the review. Best regards Traian b
Traian was one of the most pleasant, professional and knowledgeable tour operators I have had the pleasure of working with. My wife and I enjoyed his company, his retinue of stories relating to the sites he had shown us, and the overall pleasure he gave us while showing us around. We highly recommend Discovery Tranylvania when you visit Brasov.
Thank you very much for the review and for the warm words in appreciation of the Transfagarasan highway tour. I am glad that I was able to offer you a wonderful day on this tour in which we climbed up there to the top of the mountains close to the sky. Wonderful landscapes, stories told with passion and a lot of history made the tour a success. You are very nice people and I look forward to returning to beautiful and wild Transylvania again. Best regards Traian B
Traian was one of the most pleasant, professional and knowledgeable tour operators I have had the pleasure of working with. My wife and I enjoyed his company, his retinue of stories relating to the sites he had shown us, and the overall pleasure he gave us while showing us around. We highly recommend Discovery Tranylvania when you visit Brasov.
Thank you for the review and the kind words. It was a pleasure for me to be with you on this tour. I'm glad you had a wonderful experience and a special day on this tour. Best regards Traian B
