Romania adventure travel - you can use any form of transport for fun!

Are you looking for a Romania adventure travel? Then Romania has all you are looking for! As soon as you get out of Bucharest (which contains adventures of a different kind -such as keeping your wallet intact!), you will discover a world full of adventure.

There are so many ways to experience an adventure here. If you go to Predeal or Sinaia, in the mountains, you can hire a couple of quad bikes and a guide. The guide is more there to make sure you don't run off with his bikes or completely trash them in your wild enthusiasm. My friend, Wayne, bought his own quad bike so he could live in Bucharest, but go for his own Romania adventure travel - a beautiful idea but not recommended for most people as he found out. I am lucky, I have a wonderfully rare thing called a garden and a garage - so if I wanted, I would be able to buy one and park it. He parked his in the street. Two weeks later, some enterprising Romanians, who learnt his predictable routine, arrived in the night, ad simply lifted it and drove away with it on a truck!

My own Romania adventure travel always rotates around our rather beaten up little white dacia cars. My wife, who dreams of owning a jeep, takes our car up the most impossible tracks. I use it for taking short cuts between my two country homes. Romanian back roads are terrible - most get washed out and are full of unbelievably large holes. This is why the Brits always make me smile. When you compare the British country side roads deemed needing massive repairs to my daily Romanian country roads, you would happily drive on the British roads for another 50 years or so before they reached Romanian road standards.

A more exciting way of creating a Romanian travel adventure is to go for walks in the Romanian wilderness. If you are not very careful and don't respect the paths and when a path is open or closed (they have good reasons to close them!), you could have more of an adventure than you planned for. The bears are the biggest problem, and in the past have even ripped apart a sleeping beggar in the center of Brasov during the night. Never attempt night walks - accept whatever place a hotel offers you, as it is better than coming down a mountain, even along a road at night. Similarly, if you hear the scuffles and oinks of a wild boar, don't follow your first thought of 'Wow, I have never seen a wild boar before!' - as it could be the last time you see one or anything else. They are really dangerous and are best appreciated on a dinner plate in a Romanian themed restaurant. Incidentally, bear meat tastes terrible and to save you from disappointment, pick a different meat from the menu - I have yet to meet anyone who said bear meat was good for anything else than going into dog food.

There are lots of companies that offer land rover tours of Romania - which do look jolly exciting. However, if you go to the north of Romania, to Moldova, you can travel between each of the monasteries - sleeping in them if you want the compete Romania experience. The roads are passable but very exciting to drive. I found all sorts of forgotten valleys that have an isolated monastery. It is odd - God always seems to pick the most stunning Romanian countryside to place his churches. He also seems to insist on the church being fabulous but the dusty road to it, a challenge, to prove any pilgrims metal.

I would love to know more about your Romania adventure travels. Where did you go and which company did you use? I would really love to see the photos of the trip!