Transfagarasan Highway Balea Lake and Carta Monastery from Brasov
- 8–9 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
You will be taken from your hotel in Basov by a professional guide and you will go to the most spectacular road in Europe - Transfagarasan. We will stop first and visit the Carta Monastery built in the late Gothic style, by the Cistercian monks who came to Transylvania from Burgundy - France. Transfagarasan Highway is the most spectacular and beautiful mountain road in Europe, enough to feature on the UK motor show Top Gear, Transfagarasan Highway might just be “the best road in the world” as Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson claimed. It's a road going up in the mountains and unites Transylvania with Valachia. Great scenes, noisy waterfalls, Glaciar Balea lake, will make you feel great up there and forget about the stress of the city. During the winter, between the months of November and July, we will go up by van to the hotel Balea Cascada 1446, from where we will take the cable car (from here up the road is closed due to snow). The price of the cable car is not included .
Inclusions
What's included
- Professional guide
- Transport with luxury van mercedes or similar cars
- Pickup and drop-off at your hotel from Brasov
What's not
- Lunch
- Tickets at the cable car (20euro round trip) ( November 1th to July 1th))
- Entrance fee at the Monastery
Itinerary
It is the most spectacular and beautiful mountain road in Europe, enough to feature on the UK motor show Top Gear, Transfagarasan Highway might just be “the best road in the world” as Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson claimed. It's a road going up in the mountains and unites Transylvania with Valachia. Great scenes, noisy waterfalls, Glaciar Balea lake, will make you feel great up there and forget about the stress of the city
It is a glacial glacial lake situated at an altitude of 2034 m in the Fagaras mountain .Surrounded by mountains offers a miraculous view around it .It has a maximum depth of 11 m and its peels can be seen, how to swim trout.In winter, near the lake, you are building the ice hotel, an ice church and an igloo. we can visit them and try rooms and cool ice beds.
We will visit this beautiful monastery built in the late Gothic style, by the Cistercian monks who came to Transylvania from Burgundy - France
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 7 travellers
- Operated by
- Discovery Transylvania
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Between November 1st and July 1st, after 1460 the road is closed, here at Hotel Balea Cascada we will climb our car and then we will take the cable car to Lake Balea. The tickets from the cable car are not included in the ticket price. Cost of about 12 euros up and down
How it compares in Brașov
- Its from-price is 11% above the median of the 278 experiences we list in Brașov.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 30 of 278.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Brașov
Brașov is a medieval Transylvanian city ringed by the Carpathians, with a Gothic Black Church, a cobbled main square and day trips to Bran Castle.
Brașov lies in a basin of the Carpathian Mountains in central Romania, with the wooded Tâmpa hill rising above its old town. The city was built up by German settlers, the Transylvanian Saxons, and its centre is a tidy grid of baroque houses around Council Square, with the Old Council House in the middle. The Black Church, the largest Gothic church between Vienna and Istanbul, was blackened by a fire in 1689.
Top-ranked sights in Brașov: Black Church (Biserica Neagra), Council Square (Piata Sfatului), Rope Street (Strada Sforii).
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