Destination Romania Romania's hospitality is proverbial. In the countryside, you can knock at practically any door and will always receive a warm welcome. Your host will serve the best that the kitchen can provide (even if he has to borrow it from next door), because he is truly honoured by your visit. The travel-weary visitor is very soon on the same wavelength and begins to appreciate one of Romania's big strengths: here you are "who you are" and "who you want to be" and not "who you so often have to be" - suddenly you are not a well functioning robot any more, not just a name or an insurance number, but you are accepted for what you are, as if you were part of the family community. This is what impresses visitors to Romania and induces them to return time and time again: the originality of the country and the heart-warming openness and hospitality of its inhabitants, the direct and genuine experience of everyday life, without the tourist masquerade. And this brings you into contact with details from the past. Visitors often make many good friends during their stay, so that when the urge to travel next overcomes them, they often return to the same destination. A further advantage is Romania's practically unlimited possibilities: nothing is forbidden: instead you encounter pure nature en masse, camp fires, free camping, public woodland paths and mountain paths leading up into the highest mountains, and the natural personality of the people you meet. It makes you feel like a discoverer and an adventurer. The beauty of the countryside also plays its part and when it is time to leave for home, you often have that nostalgic feeling that you have experienced something very special that will remain in your heart forever: true freedom!
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