Transylvania. Just a mere mention of it conjures up images of vampires, castles and of course the legendary Count Dracula. However, Transylvania (and really all of Romania) is filled with a rich and ...

Transylvania, land of Dracula and part of the Austro-Hungarian empire for more than 1,000 years, is today in the isolated region of north-central Romania. It's been said that Transylvania sits on one ...

Balea Lake is a glacial lake nestled high in Romania's Fagaras Mountains, part of the famed Carpathian range in Transylvania. Surrounded by towering green slopes and shrouded in mist, the lake creates ...

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Cut off from the rest of Romania by the arc of the Carpathian Mountains, Transylvania still embodies a certain rural self-sufficiency. There are few better examples than the picturesque village of ...

A haystack on the Carpathian mountainside. All photos by Tom Hansell. I hiked up the gravel lane, following the ridgeline to a farmhouse at the top of the hill. My traveling companions were already in ...