Romania - Bucharest (Final Part)

Romania - Bucharest (Final Part)

Last day in Bucharest, visited all the places I wanted to see already so I just randomly walked around the place and take random shots before heading to Belgrade in Serbia.

Woke up real late and then went back to the beer house I went the previous night cause the food is really nice and I love the interior.

Bar counter in the beer house

Some chicken dish

After lunch, walked around and the random shots mentioned earlier

Palace in Bucharest it's not open

War Memorial 

BYE Bucharest!!!

Romania - Out of Bucharest (Part 2)

Romania - Out of Bucharest (Part 2)

Tired of the Bangkok like city so I went on a 12 hour tour that was organised by the hostel and went to places outside of Bucharest like Sinaia, Brasov and Bran (Drucula Castle). The guide who was the owner of hostel was not too bad but more explanation could be done. We left the hostel around 9:30am and we headed to Sinaia which was about 2 hours drive away from Bucharest.

The river of Sinaia

The Peles Palace where the 1st King of Romania stays during summer (He is German)

Inside the courtyard

The Palace Garden

View from the Garden 

Gotten my ticket to enter

Too bad you have to pay to take photos inside the palace so...NO PHOTOS of the interior. Sorry~ 

Inside there are like tons of weapons displayed on the walls of the room ranging from European to Asian. There is also a theater that can house 60 people...

After visiting the interior, I was told by the guide that there is a smaller palace nearby cause another queen hated the 1st King and build another so she need not stay in palace where the 1st King resides.

The smaller Palace nothing much to shout about...

So after exploring Sinaia, off we go to Brasov which I heard from Nela (my Romanian friend) that is much better then Bucharest. 

Random shots along the way

So we arrived in Brasov after a 1hour drive

The main gate of Brasov where traders passed long time ago to get into Brasov city

Random shots of Brasov

  I don't have much to say about this place as we stop by here just for lunch

Main Square 

The Black church 

Black church taken from the main square 

Lunch (Top-Cabbage with stuffings / Bottom-Mix Grill)

After being in Brasov for around 1.5 hours, we are off to Bran to visit the Dracular castle...

Caught a shot of this beautiful sky on the way 

The Dracular Castle (not really scary afterall) 

My Ticket 

Shots of the Castle

Nothing much to brag about the castle was quite a disappointment as you can see from this comment

Our guide recommend us this place for dinner and off we went. The interior of this beer house is awesome together with the food and beer.  =)

Our Food (top-beef with salty sauce and cheese / below-grilled salmon) 

After dinner it's time to head back to our hostel and retire from this hectic day...

Romania - Bucharest (Part 1)

Romania - Bucharest (Part 1)

After a 12 hour train ride with slow and troublesome custom boarder checks, I have arrived in ROMANIA!!!

Train Station

I arrived at the Gara de Nord train station at around 6am in the morning and was staving. I went around searching for food around the train station and to my amazement, the people here drink beer at 6AM!!! It was the first culture shock and I thought Ireland was bad. You guys should totally check out Eastern Europe in the future, anyway I decided to have KFC for breakfast as it the only place serving breakfast menu, even the famous McDonalds doesn't even have a breakfast menu. BOO~

KFC Breakfast

After having breakfast, we were like LOST again, cause we printed out directions from the old website of the hostel and we went to the old location of the hostel, luckily we made it to the new location and we were so tired from the train ride that we took some hours to rest in our room.

Butterfly Villa 

The "squeezy" stairways and small room

We got out for lunch at La Mama which was recommended by the hostel.

Our Food 

Tripe soup (top) Mixed grill (middle) kind of lasagna but extremely salty (bottom)

After lunch we roam around the city and the place looked like Thailand, Bangkok to me. The buildings looked so old without paint and also there were mixture of new buildings with the old ones.

Concert hall near La Mama

The streets of Bucharest (Bangkok look and smell alike) 

Except for the churches around the city

The untidy cables that is the same in Bangkok

After a few hours walk in the city, I went back to the hostel to crash cause of the hot weather (it was near 30 degrees and I was melting) and the lack of sleep in the train due to the interruption that we got from the custom checks. 

So what you think??? Doesn't it remind you of BANGKOK???