The beauty of a trip to Romania – wherever it takes you – is that you will surely encounter more worlds, more cultures. This gives you the chance to live more lives with each step. Whether you start looking for traditional villages, authentic gastronomy or make a stop in the wonderful Danube Delta, be sure that, in fact, you can meet them all.

You will meet inhabitants who speak different languages, dress on Sundays in their folk costume, each of them of a special beauty, build and paint their houses differently, live in villages with three or four churches, some raise animals, others beat iron, make clay pots or craft brass stills. Transylvania, Dobrogea, Banat or Bucovina, all look like a multicolored landscape of languages, customs and beliefs, which make the life of these places a mosaic full of meanings and amazingly rich experiences!

Traveling through the heart of Transylvania, you will meet the Saxons who remained in the villages to help their rebirth, to revive that world that functioned according to laws and rules perhaps unique in the world. Wherever you stop on your way, you will find land bread, you will taste the Saxon lichiu, you will drink a glass of Tarnave wine or you will taste a berry jam from the Apuseni Mountains.

Of course, you will meet rose growers or those who filled a village with tuberoses in Hoghilag. Or the Szeklers who open the gates of the masterfully carved gates daily, real outdoor exhibitions. You will eat Szekler goulash, listen to an organ concert in an evangelical church or wander the streets of Sighisoara, the only continuously inhabited medieval fortress in Romania, to understand the secret of cohabitation.

And if you start on the Olt Valley or through Hațeg Land and descend south of the Carpathians, traditional households, wooden churches or Roman castra offer you so many stories that you can live, from so many worlds, true layers of life spread over thousands of years. 

Your journey can certainly have taste. If you arrive in the communes of Apuseni, Arieşeni, Gârda de Sus, Scărișoara, Albac and Horea, you can eat the famous pies on slabs, or you can try other traditional recipes, such as "zama de picioci" (potato soup) or the traditional polenta with cheese and cream.

And if you start on the Olt Valley or through Țara Hațegului and descend south of the Carpathians, traditional households, wooden churches or Roman forts offer you so many stories that you can live, from so many worlds, real layers of life spread over thousands of years.

In Stone Land, every step is a story and a taste. On mountain paths, where summers seem cooler and more fragrant, you can discover the secret of "Moțului's pantry". Here awaits you an impressive collection of certified traditional products, from motesc cheese to raspberry and blueberry jam, from dandelion, blueberries, elderflowers, fir buds and raspberries syrups, to zacusca de ghebe (zakuska with honey fungus), each product being a testimony of the natural richness and culinary traditions of the area.

And if you want to discover a museum village, you can start through Bucovina, on a journey down the river valley with such a beautiful name – Bistrita Aurie (Golden Bistrita). This river is linked to the story of rafts that carried wood down the river and of raft craftsmen, the last keepers of this ancient craft. Visit Ciocănești, which is just 20 km from Vatra Dornei resort. Here you will see the houses painted like Easter eggs. This is how this settlement became a museum commune in 2004.

Or you can go to the heart of Vrance, to Spulber, where the architecture of the traditional house shines by using the Blockbau method, a technique specific to the area, which uses horizontal wreaths of beams. Wherever you go along the route of traditional houses in search of the authentic village, you will discover that the people of the village, although they led a hard life, knew how to make it beautiful.

And if we were to call it a "crown pearl", then the Danube Delta would be it. We often call it a paradise, but it is rather a heart that pulsates with life, in all its forms. Houses and destinies built on water, rich nature, bustling with life and a unique culinary tradition will make you fall in love with this wonderful place.

People, forests, houses and gardens, rest stops on country porches, tasty food, a picture of which nothing is missing. Because you are on the ways of a corner of the world where people of different ethnicities lived together, sometimes on the streets of the same village, sometimes in the same yard, and where different languages speak the same language: of the hospitality.