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Romania

A world where video speedtraps monitor zooming Audis and horse carts carrying hay, fake

and real Dracula sites dot the landscape where shepherds tend to flocks and many farmers

plough by hand Romania may well be Europes most interesting country. Its certainly

beautiful. The mountains that spread and curl across Transylvania create a world of hiking,

biking and skiing options. Gothic towns like Braov still have walls guarding cobbled cores

with buildings from the Austro-Hungarian Empire standing still with chipped paint-jobs.

Sometimes con-artist taxi drivers unfortunately give Romanians a tainted name across

the region, but its far from the truth here, couples of all ages show more sickening PDA(public displays of affection) than any country in Eastern Europe, and volunteer to help you

get unlost. After joining the EU in 2007, some locals worry that the West will touch areas

that communism missed, like bucolic Maramure, with its merry cemetery and lush rural

life evoking (way) past eras. Those who limit their trip to chasing Dracula and the real

Vlad epe (that moustached impaler from the 14th century) is revered here will miss

out on a lot.

FAST FACTS

Area237, 500 sq km

Capital Bucharest

Currency nou leu: 1 = 3.51 lei; US$1 = 2.72lei; UK1 = 5.09 lei; A$1 = 2.04 lei;

100 = 24.25 lei; NZ$1 = 1.72 lei; see p687

for details on the changed currency as of2007

Famous for Dracula, Transylvania, NadiaComanecis 10.0 in the 76 Olympics

Official Language Romanian

Phrasesbun(hello); da (yes);nu (no);mulumesc(thank you)

Population 22.3 million

Telephone Codes country code%40,international access code%00

Visas Citizens of the EU, USA, Canada,Japan, Australia and New Zealand visa-free

for up to 90 days. Many others require a

visa; see p688

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