The Transfagarasan highway in Romania is one of the best driving roads in the world. But, only if you avoid these travel mistakes!
If you’re just now joining us, we are on an incredible two-week road trip around Transylvania. After exploring Peleș Castle, the beautiful town of Brașov, and staying in a small Romanian village on a traditional farm, we are heading to Sibiu after a little pit stop. Today, we’re driving the world’s greatest driving road, the Transfagarasan Highway in Romania!
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Hey U2, love your vlogs, but nothing new posted in over 5 months?!? Are you done traveling?
Hey guys. Where are you? Haven’t seen anything new from you in awhile. Miss seeing your adventures.
What happened to keep going places? I hope your journey continues !!
Miss you two. Are you still. Are you still traveling?
7:16 that poor guy falling from his bike 🙁
Hello. Greeting from Romania 🇷🇴 Thank you for visiting us. You are welcome and please come back.
My apologies for you're experience. Please repeat this travel to Transfăgărășan and maybe you will have an better experience. Come to Cluj Napoca to. We have a nice city but we have more car's and problem with traffic 🚦 but you will have an nice experience and just to 120-130 km away we have nice mountains ( Apuseni national park) beautiful places
See you ❤
My apologies for my english.
I very sad because they feeding bears 😡
Sunt mândru de Țara mea este frumoasă și să îi mulțumim domnului Nicolae Ceaușescu pentru tot ce a făcut în România
.Pentru că a construit România NOI LAM ÎMPUȘCAT .DUMNEZEU SĂ NE IERTE ȘI PE EL SĂ ÎL ODIHNEASCĂ .Țara asta frumoasă foarte frumoasă datorită lui avem Metroul Casa poporului (azi casa HOȚILOR ) BLOCURI ÎN BUCUREȘTI CASE GRATUITE ȘI AVEAM O ȚARĂ FĂRĂ DATORII FĂRĂ OMV FARĂ PETROMUL VÂNDUT DE LA PATRICIU CARE DĂ DOAMNE SĂ PUTREZEASCĂ ÎN IAD (Iertare doamne azi de sfântați înviere) . Și totuși deși avem un imn național care ne îndeamnă să ne deșteptăm nouă nu ne pasă .Ungurii își fac de cap în țară noastră Ruși ne așteaptă la cotitură și asta e România noastră. Când ne vom deșteptă să nu mai stăm cu capul î jos .
E doar părerea voastră!
Avem o țară foarte frumoasă!
Wonderful !! Thnaks …!!
It is illegal to feed wild bears in Romania too. Those biker selfie-braindead idiots should have got hefty fines for feeding the bears. Once a bear learns that the tourists are a source of food they will have no fear to aproach other human settlements and thus usually end up either killed or at best relocated.
The biggest mistake was that you don't find a Mc Donalds on the road?
Omg, they must stop the bycicle race, because you are there..😀😀😀😀
Ignorant americans…
there are beautiful areas in Sibiu such as Gura Râului, Cisnădioara, Sibiel, etc. ..
Thank you very much for promoting an beautyfull country Romania and unique landscapes and good food❤🫶🙏✌️🥹
Idiots…exposing there mad mindset…everywhere in the world you go you will never find a road that is forbidden for cycling…just because you are driving a car doesn't mean that it shouldn't be bicycles on the road…
Why are you talking shit about my country? Go back to your amazing USA. Firstly you should be grateful that you don’t have to apply for any visa and you don’t have to be humiliated by the customs when you enter Romania like I was when I tried to enter USA. Do you know that Romanian citizens has to pay 150$ to apply for your stupid visa. After you pay that money you need to go over an interview and after you wait 3 hours they just say NO whiteout any reason and the 150$ is gone. Please go to your homeless country where you never know if you can make it alive. I was in your amazing country many times and I never talked shit about your amazing country on the internet. I can make 1000 of negative videos about your country. Please leave my country and never talk bad about my country. If you respect my country you are welcome if not than you can GO 14:03
Transfagarasan became a victim of it's own fame, especially in week-ends during week-days things might be a little bit more chill, universally usually Tuesdays are the most chill day of the week if there's no holiday, also be there early in the morning. You might also want to see Transalpina, less spectacular but on a higher elevation than Transfagarasan, some people like it more than Transfagarasan, if you visit Transalpina stop by Stana Stefanu, might want to grab something to eat, but beware the food is heavy and it's not vegan, well probably the polenta and the pancakes are vegan.
Litter is a big problem in Romania and usually in the Balkans, people are just to carefree to think about the consequences, and there is little to no education done about it.
The bears you saw are under two years old and it's a huge mistake to come near them because some of them at this age still have the mother around. She's not chill.
I didn't see any trash there like you say..is one of the most clean country at the moment..and definitely you don't see do mach trash and bad people like in your country! Shame on you ,you say that for money 🤦♀️
Imagine the shock on everyone's face to see other tourists such as yourself leave trash behind, interact with wildlife, make an absolute 3 kind of jam of the traffic.
Do you think this country is an entire tourist attraction, no, nobody will stay to collect the trash left behind by uneducated tourists, nobody will put signs to not interact with the wildlife (since, y'know…we thought everyone has common sense), and especially no, we're not going to magically make cars disappear for every tourist.
Very sh*tty take, maybe we should stick to the highways and gun road rage in America.
Transfăgărășan is almost always busy, especially in weekends or public holidays.
In Romania, people do not need signs to know what to do or not do. You don't need signs to know you don't feed the bears. Lol. We are not used being handheld. Not sure you noticed, the bikers feeding the bears were not Romanians and the big bus was from Holland.
As a Romanian I ask you to not act so shocked seeing garbage. Of course it's not ok, but for sure you've seen it in USA. However you did not see homeless people living in tents, you did not get robbed at gun point as it's sadly the case in America. So, yeah, enjoy your stay and do less finger pointing!
Your title of the video is plain stupid you had bad luck…the road is the crown of Romania Roads.
Guys, stop squirming, you are not the only ones in the world who like to travel!; there are 8 bil on this planet, so do not be surprised by crowded places, bears – do not cut their forests! cars or bicyclists – respect for bicyclists! They are not polluting the planet as you do. Better pedestrian!So, have some respect for the planet …, oh and yes, i don't follow up you
You should have called the police, they send swat teams to scare the bears back în the forest, most tourists prefer to act like steve irwin
Dacă vreți să mai veniți în România ,ați putea vizita Mănăstirea Putna, Mănăstirea Oașa. Sunt locuri minunate. România este o țară minunată cu tradiți extraordinare. Salutări!
I am from Romania and I lived in US for the last 25 years I’ve been places all over breathtaking and also horrible… Like Cleveland or Portland, Oregon where in the middle of downtown Portland is full of drug users and garbage… so guys I guess every garden has weeds. Romania is a beautiful country, same like US … there are beautiful places in Romania! One example, one of the most beautiful waterfall in the word is in Romania – Bigar waterfall …
Thanks for coming to Romania 🇷🇴 and for living a really bad impression about this tragic love story or what ever was on the rocks and the heavy amounts of garbage left by the some tourists just like you and all the poor bears that you Soo eating from tourists just like you not paying attention to the saints that were there and seeing NOT Too 👎 . Thank you
Hello from Cabana Minunata..Transylvania
99% NEGATIVITY IN THE TITLE
CLICK BAIT SHIT.
Shame on you.
From the 90% of beautiful things you manage only to put a negative shit title.
Hello!
Glad that you visited our country! Enjoy the beauties of our nature and don't let any poor quality things let you down during your journey. All the best!
Great video. Can you share where and how you've rented your car for the road trip, please? Company's name, cost, etc
Look at the good side of things. If it wasn't crowded and the hustle and bustle from above you would have passed very quickly and you wouldn't have had time to admire the scenery 😜
Romania is One if the Richest Country in Europe – mountains, sea, imense forests , super river – 2nnd in Europe , Delta – unique in Europe, imense agriculture land , gas, oil, etc…..
Nice video🙋♂️
hello
It was the 2nd stage of Sibiu Cycling Tour – For 2023, please note the date: July 7! Always check in advance! Also avoid August 12-15 (August 15 is Bank Holiday in Romania: St. Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus)
Money for signage was probably approved, but used otherwise… corruption in Ro continues, sadly!
So sorry you had a really bad trip on the most famous road in Romania 🇷🇴
But with jordon driving and patience you made it ❤.thanks for having us along for the ride😍.
Greetings from England 🇬🇧 Simon and Beth ❤🙋
Just amazing!
Im living in Romania, as argentinian, but i dont know yet this place. In 3 weeks I will visit also!
Saludos 🇦🇷
why did you guys stopped posting videos? something happened? anyone knows a reason for this? at least, i can't see any new videos after this one, and 8 months had passed…
What happens if I drove through Romania without vignette and was not stopped anywhere, not even at the border? Should I expect a letter?
The reason that there is a lack of signage and overall tourist infrastructure its because this road was never meant to be more that, a mountain road, with only local tourists.
I am from Romania and I can tell you that most Romanians didn't knew about it either before Top Gear.
I want to go for 5 days is a day in Transylvania and Bucharest enough? And then I need to stay 2 days in Constanta
It used to be great to drive on it like 10-15 years ago but now it's way too crowded. I remember that I got my front brakes smoking while driving my Dacia down 18 years ago. But nowadays it gets so crowded with amateurs who can't drive a straight line, not to mention a rally road like this one. And yes, they leave a lot of trash and pollution behind.
What happened to KGP?? I enjoyed your travels !!!