The Romanian central region of Transylvania is known to foreign tourists for the stories about Dracula, but a journalist from Financial Times invites people to discover the Romanian area for its beauties, for a change. In the “Lost in Transylvania” article, Clive Aslet admits he was impressed by this area, saying that “Transylvania is a world that seems to share more with the lyrical novels of Thomas Hardy than modern Europe”.

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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