Things To Do
Bear Lake, Sovata
The Bear Lake is a beautiful salt lake in Transylvania. The name comes from the shape of the lake as it looks like a bearskin from above. The lake itself is very nice, but it has a lot of trails behind it with great spots lakes and salt mountains. The trails are very well built and have easy access. Sovata is a beautiful tourist area, is noted for its salt lakes and springs (don't drink the water). It has a good nightlife and many health spas. Due to its salty lakes and the warm water, it became an increasingly popular health resort during the end of the 19th and the 20th century but till this day is a famous destination.
Salt Mine Praid
Salt Mine Praid is a unique underground world. After you pay the entrance fee (about $9) a bus takes you on a long tunnel, almost 1 mile to the entrance gate of the visiting base, which is about 400 feet deep. Arriving to the visiting level you can enjoy all of the benefits of a small village: illumination, Wi-Fi, television, playground for the children, Coffee Shop, naturist drugstore. The average annually underground temperature is 60 F.
Sighișoara Citadel
Sighișoara is one of the best-preserved medieval towns in Europe, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a landmark of Saxon heritage in Romania. In Eastern Europe, Sighișoara is one of the few fortified towns that are still inhabited. Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula was born here in this town at the early XV. century.
Târgu Mureș
Târgu Mureș is the largest city in this region, the city is the cultural, educational and industrial center of the countryside.