Financial Times: Switzerland is like a garden compared to Romania's Transylvania
He was accompanied in his trip in Romania by Paul Lister, who founded the European Nature Trust for preserving the wild spaces such as the Carpathian Mountains. “The Carpathians form an arc through many central European countries but the Romanian part is the most biodiverse. There are, for example, more brown bears here than anywhere else in Europe. Lister believes this area should be regarded as Europe’s equivalent of Yellowstone National Park,” writes Clive Aslet. However, the illegal logging in the country may destroy the beauty of the forests here.
In his journey through Romania, the journalists also met a foreign tourist, a woman from Switzerland, who, according to Clive Aslet, said: “Switzerland is like a garden compared to this”.
Read the entire Financial Times article here.
Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com
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