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Romania is a country in Europe, more exactly it's located in South-East Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory. It shares a border with Hungary and Serbia to the west, Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova to the northeast, and Bulgaria to the south.

Useful facts

Capital: Bucharest

List of all categories of monuments in our country

Map of Romania

Romania is constituated of 41 counties and 5 different regions. Each region has it's own culture, history and tradition.

Here, below, are the following romanian regions you can find by your own on the map, click on each region or city to show its CS local activity:

Transilvania

The main cities in this region are: Hunedoara, Deva, Alba-Iulia, Sighisoara, Medias, Targu Mures, Cluj Napoca, Bistrita, Reghin, Gheorgheni, Miercurea Ciuc, Sfantu Gheorghe, Odorheiu Secuiesc, Covasna, Brasov, Fagaras, Sibiu

Other important smaller cities: Sinaia

Important sites: Bran, Poienari, Rasnov, Sarmisegetusa, Blidaru, Piatra Roşie, Costeşti, Căpâlna, Baniţa, Hunyad Castle,

Banat

The main cities in this region are: Timisoara, Resita, Lugoj, Caransebes

Danube Delta

under construction

To connect to all locations check and read the city Tulcea.

From here you might have to take the ferry!

Maramures

under construction

The main cities in this region are: Baia Mare, Satu Mare, Sighetu Marmatiei, etc

Crisana

The main cities in this region are: Oradea, Arad

Moldova

The main cities in this region are: Iasi, Galati, Bacau, Focsani, Roman, Vaslui, Piatra Neamt, Onesti, Buzau, etc

Map of Romania with its 5 regions

Bucovina

The main cities of this region are: Suceava, Botosani

under construction

Wallachia (Muntenia & Oltenia)

The main cities in this region are: Bucharest, Ploiesti, Ramnicu Valcea, Pitesti, Târgovişte, Craiova, Calarasi, Slobozia, Giurgiu, Alexandria, Pitesti, Slatina, Targu Jiu, Drobeta Turnu Severin, Braila, etc

Dobrogea

The main cities in this region are: Constanta, Mangalia, Tulcea, Vama Veche

• Distances between Romania cities (km):

http://www.travelworld.ro/en/distances/romania_distance.php

Events & Meetings

Here you can find several events that are happening around Romania throughout the year and also some reference sites where you can find out more about these events.

All events will be posted on the Meet Tab from the CouchSurfing Website as well.

useful link for all events worldwide

Extreme Adventures & Sports

Specific Events in 2010

• January

• February

• March

BULGARIAN-ROMANIAN friendship meeting - episode 1

Where: Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria

When: 19 – 21.03.2010

• April

• May

• June

• July

• August

• September

• October

• November

• December

CouchSurfers & Easy couches

You can use the couchsearch method / advanced in order to find the real CS diamonds!

Here are the Tips that migh help you a lot

How to make a profile

How to read a profile

Finding and Requesting a Couch

Tips for hosting

Tips for surfing

Tips for solo travelers

Tips for family traveling

Tips

• All cabs / taxi in Bucharest are yellow! the price per km are written on sides of the car and

inside on the countor! usually the price is made of a starting fee ~2 LEI / RON + price per km is ~1.8 LEI or RON.

Romanian currency - LEU (pl. LEI), fractional coin - BAN (pl. BANI).

As of 1 July 2005, Romania's legal tender, previously coded as ROL, has been redenominated so that ROL 10,000 are exchanged for 1 new leu (RON). The old Leu was legal tender until end-December 2006.

Coins and notes in circulation

• Do not use private taxis, prices are higher and they can cheat very bad!

• Exchange rates are very bad in touristic areas and airports! Pay attention to not have comission from the amount used!

• Inside train stations / buses stations or airports prices for food / drinks are higher than usual! Better buy from markets close to those areas!

• Wi-Fi hotspots all over Romania check here

Mailing List

For the time being there is no mailing list set, but Vera did set-up an emergency mail; that you could use for receiving an automated response with all the infos for Romania that you might need in case of any emergency situation : 911csromania[at]gmail[dot]com

Saying HI

If you want more than few words presented here u can also check for more another part of the wiki: Romanian_phrase-page

salut! –> available all over Romania

buna! -> bucharest

servus! –> in Transilvania

ciao! -> in Banat & Crisana

Money

LEU (lion), singular: LEU; plural: LEI

Currency Convertor

http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic

Electricity Information

The local current is 220V AC and the connection is made by a two-pin plug in.

Travellers from USA / UK will require a voltage convertor & plug adaptor - not so hard to buy one from here.

Transportation

Hopefully these may help you in your traveling through Romania!

Have a safe trip and enjoy the country of all possibilities (good & bad)!

!!!! Transfăgărăşanul se deschide mai devreme.

Drumul Naţional 7C - Transfăgărăşan va fi deschis circulaţiei în zilele următoare, cu aproape o lună înainte de termenul obişnuit, 1 iulie. Deszăpezirea la peste 1.800 de metri altitudine a fost grăbită special pentru Turul Ciclist al României, programat în perioada 7-14 iunie.

Două utilaje la secţia de Drumuri Naţionale din Sibiu lucrează de câteva zile la foc continuu pentru a curăţa de zăpada de pe Transfărăşan.

Din cei 14 kilometri de drum ce leagă Bâlea Cascadă de Bâlea Lac au mai rămas de deszăpezit aproape patru kilometri. Lucrătorii de la Drumuri sunt convinşi că vor reuşi să termine la timp eliberarea carosabilului.

Drumarii speră ca vremea să îi ajute în înlăturarea munţilor de zăpadă de pe Transfăgărăşan. Cicliştii vor parcurge traseul pe 10 iunie. Până atunci, pentru turişti accesul între Bâlea Cascadă şi Bâlea Lac se face doar cu telecabina.

Connections from Romania to other countries by bus

Bus Contacts

On the link above you will find contact method, price, schedule, adress, etc.

Connections to: Germania, Spania, Italia, Franta, Anglia, Belgia, Olanda, Portugalia, Austria, Grecia, Elvetia, Maroc, Finlanda, Norvegia, Danemarca, Suedia, Cehia, Ungaria, Portugalia, Croatia, Belgia, Irlanda, Grecia, Turcia, Ungaria.

Airport

Airports in Romania

Airports in RO

Most important airports in Romania:

• Baneasa - Aurel Vlaicu / close to the city

Tel: 021-232.00.20; Fax: 021 - 232.36.87

E-mail: office@baneasa.aero

• Otopeni - Henri Coanda / out of the city

Address: Bucuresti, DN1 Bucuresti - Ploiesti nr. km 16

Tel: 021-201.40.00; 201.40.50

[otp@otp-airport.ro Otopeni E-mail] / [www.otp-airport.ro Otopeni Website]

Taxi companies

Taxis can be summoned by telephone or hailed on the street.

Fares per km are posted on driver’s and passenger doors.

Average Taxi fares:

Initial Fee: ~2.0 Lei (~$0.85) plus ~1.8 Lei / km (~$1.25 / mile)

Check the taxi fares and ask the driver to confirm the approximate cost of the ride, if not sure. Please note that some taxi companies may post and/or charge up to five times the fares mentioned above.

If you will call from an international number please add 0040 (romania code) + 21 (county code) in front of the taxi number.

Buses (national and international)

in Romanian in English

• Eurolines Romania

Romanian deutch English

• Atlassib

Romanian English Francais Deutch Italiano Espagnol

• C&I (national transportation)

Romanian

Trains

• national trains(can also check the price ticket)

Romanian English

• international trains

Romanian

Special note can see the route, departure / arrival time, but the ticket price is available only at the railway station

• Tickets reservations via phone:

rezervare prin telefon a biletelor de tren 15-Feb-2008 Serviciul de rezervare telefonica a biletelor functioneaza demonstrându-si eficienta si utilitatea din anul 2001, în Gara de Nord din Bucuresti – la numarul 9522, iar începând cu data de 01 august 2006, s-a extins astfel:

în gara din Constanta la nr. 0727 999952

în gara din Timisoara Nord la nr. 0256 200457

în gara din Cluj Napoca la nr. 0264 952

în gara din Brasov la nr. 0268 421700

în gara din Iasi la nr. 0232 202777

în gara din Galati la nr. 0236 496000

Caracteristicile serviciului de rezervare prin telefon :

rezervarile de locuri se fac numai în ziua plecarii trenului, la vagoanele clasa din compunerea trenurilor care circula în trafic local cu plecare din statiile sus amintite; serviciul poate fi utilizat si de catre beneficiarii de reduceri din tarifele de transport pe calea ferata, cu conditia ca la ridicarea biletului sa poata dovedi reducerea; biletele se ridica cel mai tarziu cu 30 minute înainte de plecarea trenului, în caz contrar rezervarea se pierde. Fata de contravaloarea biletului de tren se mai achita o taxa de rezervare de 3RON;

tariful pentru apeluri este cel obisnuit si aferent retelei de telefonie în care se efectueaza convorbirea; programul de lucru cu publicul este permanent;

• Online train tickets

Informatii suplimentare despre acest serviciu se pot obţine la telefon: (004)0731990129, de luni până vineri in intervalul orar 9.00-15.00 sau la adresa de email : bileteo nline@cfrcalatori.ro

You can obtain more suplimentary info calling this number: (0040)0731990129, from Monday till Friday, between 9am - 3pm or by e-mail: bileteonline@cfrcalatori.ro.

Distances between Romanian cities

InterRail info, in Romanian

Freebies

Museums

you can find them detailed to every city we described above!

Music

You can check here if is a concert that you would like to attend to:

http://www.bestmusic.ro/Concertele_2008-a7199.html

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