Csegedi Szabolcs - Motoescapes: Back to the Middle Ages

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Back to the Middle Ages - Transylvania

This is a 3 day trip in Transylvania.We have a mini Easter holiday and how should we spend it, if not touring.

We want to explore some castles from the Middle Ages.

Destinations : Törcsvár(Bran) Castle maybe it's more familiar to you if I say the Draculas Castle,Szászkézd(Saschiz)Barcarozsnyó(Rasnov),Fogaras(Fagaras) Castle and the fortress on Hunyad(Hunedoara).

The route : Targu Mures - Saschiz - Brasov - Rasnov - Bran - Fagaras - Transalpina - Brezoi - Lake Vidra - Petrosani - Hunedoara - Alba Iulia - Targu Mures (approximately 800-900 km)

Day I

The first objective, the fortified church Szászkézd(Saschiz):

Pit stop before entering Brassó(Brasov)

Törcsvár (Bran) Castle - Dracula's Castle

Climbing to the castle

The interior

View from a balcony

The Legend

Next destination Fogaras(Fagaras)

JUST HANGING AROUND :p

Carpathian mountains

We find a good place for wild camping

It's cold in the night so we warm up at the fire

end of the first day...

Day II

We continue our journey through the mountains

KTM love

We start to climb in the upper parts of the mountains

Vidra lake

Transalpina

Managed to reach this point, where we felt down and we can't go further because of the big snow

Szidi enjoying the snow

Rainbow

We spend the night in an orchard

We bribe a dog with some food to watchour back at night

Enjoying the sunset

I wake up in the middle of the night because of wolves, which attacked the sheepfold , about 1km from us ...
Day III

In the morning I speak with the shepherd, the wolves have not managed to rob anything