Romania

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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

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: Cluj-Napoca, Brasov, Rasnov, Sibiu, Oradea, Targu-Mures, Sighisoara

Other important smaller cities: Alba-Iulia, 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

Moldova

The main cities in this region are: Iasi, Suceava, Galati

Map of Romania with its 5 regions

Valahia

The main cities in this region are: Bucharest, Ploiesti, Ramnicu Valcea, Pitesti, Targoviste, Craiova

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: http://www.whatsonwhen.com/sisp/index.htm?fx=home

March 2009

• Our main event from Romania is in March, every year.

For further information about this event called: The Sinaia Meeting you can visit our website

http://thesinaiameeting.99k.org

Also if you wish to come please feel free to register for the meeting through the same website, when the time will come.

August 2008

• 4 Iron Maiden concert - Romania, Bucharest
• 12-18 Sziget Festival - Hungary, Budapest

July 2008

• 4-6 B'EstFest Festival - Romania, Bucharest
• 11 B'EstFest Festival AfterShock - Romania, Bucharest special day for ROCK; already confirmed bands: Judas Priest
• 5-7 Kaliakra Rock Festival - Bulgaria - Manowar concert on the 5th
• 23-28 Peninsula - Romania, Tg. Mures
• 26 Lenny Kravitz concert - Romania, Bucharest

June 2008

May 2008

• 08.04 - 28.05 Stradivarius National Tour

CouchSurfers & Easy couches

Romanian People

Active Members

• Seby - Country Ambassador for Romania - an active member in Brasov, living very close to it, in a small town called Săcele in the east part of Transilvania
• Corina - City Ambassador of Cluj Napoca from the same part of Transilvania.
• Razvan - City Ambassador of Timisoara.
• Vera / GOPO - an active member in CS from Bucharest.

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!

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

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

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.

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

The online booking ticket is for more than 1 year under contruction! its lasting long time, maybe everlasting! :)

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• 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;

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

Other wikis

• Romania on the Hitchwiki
• Romania on Wikitravel
• Romania on Wikipedia