Romania - Village Life in Maramures and the narrow gauge steam train, the Mocanita
A lovely little 2019 documentary of life in rural Maramures, a district in northern Romania, where life is un-hurried, pastoral and green. Everyone was making hay, beautiful, herb and flower-filled, heaven-scented hay. Some was piled onto wooden racks to dry, some piled onto small haystacks ready for the winter.
Horse drawn vehicles are a common sight, loaded with logs, hay and people. Sheep and cattle wear tinkling bells and every small farm has a pig or two.
A trip up the Vaser valley on the Mocanita steam train, the last working timber railway in Europe, was very special and not without excitement in the form of a derailment!
We pedalled around on bicycles, at a gentle pace, soaking up the gorgeous scenery, wonderful country smells and happy smiles.
All filming was with my much-travelled, hand-held Panasonic HC X920.
LIFE IN A TRADITIONAL ROMANIAN VILLAGE IN BREB ???????? UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE! (????: Maramures, Romania)
Breb has to be added to your Romania itinerary!
The Maramures region in Romania is so beautiful! We really have to go back and explore more if it. Breb is one of those places where time goes by slower and you are forced to enjoy the little things. We loved walking the 'streets' of Breb, saying hi to everyone, playing with every single animal we crossed paths with, learning about their culture and values and just being there... it may sound strange, but even though you're obviously a tourist, it feels like you're a part of something. And it's very special ????
It's fascinating to us to learn and see how other people live. It really changes you. And it's the best part of traveling ❤️
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Romania, Village Life in Transylvania
A beautiful little documentary of village life in Gyimes, in the South Eastern Carpathians in 2018. Ancient, vernacular, small farm-houses line the stoned side roads on which horse-drawn vehicles carry logs, hay, stone and people this way and that all day long. Most people live by small-scale farming producing their own honey, cheese, bread, veg and fruit, milk and meat. Water is always from the well, pure, sparkling and cold. Cows and sheep wear bells and high above the village the mountain meadows hum with insect life while the extraordinarily rich flora remains untouched by sprays and chemicals.
Szekler people, Romania's Hungarian speaking minority live in Gyimes, which now lies within Bacau county. The history of the area and its association with Transylvania, is very complicated .... I am no historian and apologise for any errors I have made.
Enjoy the film, all taken with a little, hand-held Panasonic HC X920.
LIFE ON A ROMANIAN VILLAGE FARM (The Romania You've Never Seen)
This is the UNTOUCHED ROMANIA you’ve never seen before!
If you’re just now joining us, we are on an incredible two-week road trip around Transylvania. After exploring Peleș Castle in Sinaia and the beautiful town of Brașov, we explore the Romanian countryside and villages during our farmstay in Transylvania. With lots of good food, good people, and cute animals, we had a wonderful stay on the Cobor Farm and highly recommend them for your own Romania travel adventures!
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Village life in Romania
At least once a year I try to visit my grandmother that lives in Romania.
She lives in a small village called Popesti and its surrounded by a river and mountains. They still drive carriages with horses, collect water from the well and the roads are unpaved.
This time I visited the village with questions. Does everybody feel the same serenity that I feel? Or maybe its just a fairy-tale that I created in my mind because I am here for just a short time and then I will leave again.
I believe this video will make you experience the authentic life of Romania through the stories and feelings of locals.
Romania – Europe's MOST UNIQUE Country (Travel Adventure) ????????
Travel Documentary Romania. ???????? Part 2: This 8-day road trip will leave a lasting impression on you as it gives you an intimate look at life in Romania. Our Travel Vlog takes you to villages, cities, landscapes and people and explores the real, authentic Romania – a land of contrasts!
00:00 Intro
00:35 Transylvania & Bicaz Canyon
01:10 Moldavia Monastery
02:52 Suceava & Teenagers
06:12 Iași
09:13 Bârlad
10:52 Romanian Apartment
11:22 Traditional Market Bârlad
13:58 Poverty in Romania
20:02 Galați & Braila
21:21 Ferry Ride on Danube River
22:20 Priopcea Pass & Jurilovca
23:43 Argamum Fortress & Cape Dolosman
27:10 Dobrogea Canyon
28:04 Constanța
32:31 Bucharest by Night
34:28 Bucharest Obor Market
37:40 Bucharest & Palace of Parliament
39:18 Bucharest Ghetto Ferentari
41:54 Peleș Castle
Along the way, you meet the locals and get an insight into their lives, and come face-to-face with both the challenges and wonders of Romania. Be prepared to be captivated by the unexpected moments of our journey that will challenge your perceptions and captivate your heart (e.g., poverty in Romania, Orthodox Church).
From the vibrant cities of Bucharest, Iasi, and Suceava to lesser-known places like Bârlad, Braila, and Jurilovca (Tulcea County), you'll experience the cultural and social aspects of Romania, as well as its stunning landscapes. Discover the Danube Delta in Galati, the Black Sea in Constanta, the breathtaking canyons of Bicaz and Dobrogea, the Moldavia region with its magnificent monasteries and the beauty of Transylvania with a visit to Peleș Castle. And of course sample the flavors of Romanian food!
See this fascinating country like never before in 8 days.
Day 1: Transylvania, Bicaz Pass, Bicaz Gorges, Monastery of Saint Basil the Great in Bodești, Suceava & Iași
Day 2: Iași & Bârlad
Day 3: Bârlad & Galați
Day 4: Galati, Braila, Priopcea Pass & Jurilovca
Day 5: Jurilovca, Argamum Fortress, Cape Dolosman, Dobrogea Gorges & Constanța
Day 6: Constanța & Bucharest
Day 7: Bucharest
Day 8: Bucharest, Bucharest's ghetto Ferentari, Sinaia, Peleș Castle & Brașov
Thank you for watching & commenting!
Much love xx
Nicole & Roberto
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We are Nicole from Austria/Germany and Roberto from Switzerland/Italy. We believe that there's more to travel than just the typical tourist sights. We delve deeper into the culture, people, and way of life in each destination, rather than just focusing on the tourist attractions or surface-level experiences. Join us on this journey! We hope our travel videos inform & inspire you!
Village Life in Romania, Maramures ????????
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A lovely experience in rural Maramures, a region in the north of Romania, one of the last well preserved traditional village areas in Romania. . The village is kept alive by the hand made costumes people are wearing, the hand made pear brandy, the hospitality of the people welcoming you. A trip in Maramures has to inlude the Merry cemetery, the only UNESCO cemetery in the world, where we got to speak with the carpenter who creates the crosses.
One day in the Breb village will make you understand why so many foreigners chose to call this village their home.
The villlage life in Maramures is calm and unhurried, full of wonderful scenery and mistery places where your car will even run uphill with the engine turned off.
00:00 Welcome to Maramures
01:49 Village Life and tradition in Vadu Izei, Maramures
05:53 Merry Cemetery in Sapanta Village, Maramures
08:16 A talk with the master carpenter from the Merry Cemetery
10:50 Merry Cemetery, Unesco World Heritage site
12:08 Sapanta Peri Monastery, Maramures, Romania
14:53 A tour of the Sapanta Peri Monastery in Maramures, Romania
16:12 Barsana Monastery in Maramures
17:33 A tour of the Barsana Monastery in Maramures
19:17 Breb Village in Maramures
21:57 Village Life in Eastern Europe Breb, Maramures
23:11 Horinca in Maramures
24:50 Village food in Maramures, Romania
26:36 The antigravitational place
30:00 Village life in Maramures last impressions
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Romania, Transylvania Hay Camp 2015 Part 3
Watch traditional hay-making in Gyimes, Transylvania, where flower-filled hay meadows are cut with scythes and raked with Uncle Viktor's hand-made, wooden rakes before the hay is brought down to the village on horse-drawn carts. Horses and people work hard in this unspoilt village of traditional wooden houses and stoned roads. A colourful village festival highlights the sense of community and tradition.
Breb - Magical village in Maramures Romania ????????
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The Maramures region had always been pretty much on the top of my list when I was planning my Romania road trip. The more research I did, the more excited I got about it! Whenever I travel I'm looking for authentic experiences and in the Maramures there are plenty.
When looking for a nice hub to travel around from I marked Breb as my main place of interest. Because, as usual, I book accomodation pretty late. Everything that was a bit affordable seemed to be sold out in Breb. I decided to look around in one of the other towns around and noticed that Ocna Sugatag seemed a good alternative at only 10 minutes driving from Breb.
In this video I visit the Maramures region in Romania and I will show you what to do in Breb and the surrounding area.
Day 1: Exploring the little picturesque villages Breb and Mara
Day 2: Hiking to Creasta Cocosolui
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0:00 Intro Maramures
1:35 Exploring Breb Village
8:45 Visiting Mara waterfall
14:30 Hike to Creasta Cocosolui from Breb
25:45 Hotel tour Casa Alberta in Ocna Sugatag
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(Video filmed at The Village Hotel from Breb Village)
Maramures is all about the land, the ancient way of life and the people. Everywhere you look, creates images in your mind, of fairytales!
Maramures is the northern part of Transylvania, known as 'The Land Beyond the Forest
The land, gently undulating, is covered with hills and valleys, rivers and haystacks; ways of farming unchanged for centuries. Working the fields by hand, using scythes and rakes, hoes, axes and other medieval farming implements. Cartloads, stacked high and wide,
pulled by horses, bring the harvests home. Roads winding through hills and valleys... not a motorway to be seen, in
this county! Here are few fences, animals free to graze, tended only by local old folks or shepherds.
What an image!
An abundance of fruit and nut trees Bushes bursting with wild berries, to help yourselves to, whilst rambling through the fields and woodlands.
Hike through ancient forests, following footprints of bears, wild cats and boars.
You'll find four proper seasons in Maramures. Beautiful spring, showered in blossom, after a snow covered, freezing winter. Long, hot summer days, with beautiful starry nights, followed by a rich and glorious array of colours, in the Autumn.
Maramures is famous for its wooden architecture. Tall spires of the traditional wooden churches can be seen from a distance, often built on top of a hill, in the middle of the village. Old traditional wooden houses with shingle roofs. Ornately carved, entrance gates... even a cemetery, where the headstones are hand carved, depicting the lives of people deceased!
Village people, who's lives revolve around subsistence farming are hard working, but lead a healthy lifestyle.
It is difficult to imagine '1st world' stress here; there is little evidence of consumerism, in the rural areas. Where nothing, is more important than 'family'. The older generations, are revered and still have a purpose in life. Every family member, no matter how old or young, gets involved with day to day household and farming chores.
Neighbours...discuss and gossip.. over the garden fence, in the streets or out in the fields, the daily happenings, no matter how insignificant. Families and friends gather for 'entertainment', usually at home, to spend time together and share their stories. Always.. there is food on the table and a bottle of palinca! Most of all, they are known for there genuine hospitality. You can expect a warm welcome and often an invitation to join for warm donuts, and a small glass of Palinca!
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We Visit a ROMA Village
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In our latest video we say our goodbyes in Hungary after an incredible time visiting Budapest, the capital city and Hortobagy National park where we stayed with a local Horseman and his wife. Before we leave, we delve in to an abandoned military barracks and try to reach the tower, but once inside, we find we aren't alone.
As we leave Hungary, the border station decide they aren't happy with our friends Canadian passport, and they hold us for investigation. Will ever leave?! Spoiler, yes we will. As we enter Romania, our memories of this beautifully crazy country come flooding back. We make a brief stopover in Cluj Napoca, the capital of the Transylvanian region of Romania.
As we enter the second half of the travelogue, we arrive at an old friends house. Tibi is from the Romani community in Romania, a separate ethnic group thought to originate from the Punjab region of India over 3000 years ago.
He warmly invites us in to his home where we eat a feast of traditional foods, before cranking the music up and introducing us to Romani music and dance. We explore the village, meet the locals, hear stories, learn traditional basket weaving from one of the villages oldest weavers and drink plenty of Rakia!
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We’re Lucy and Ben, two photographers from Cornwall, UK who’ve been living and travelling in our self-converted LDV Convoy camper van for the best part of four years. We’ve travelled all across Europe from West to East documenting our encounters with the people we meet as well as our own travels and adventures. We embrace the ethos of slow travel and minimal living, generally spending between 2 and 8 weeks in each country, getting to know each culture, cuisine and people as though we were locals ourselves as well as hiking, wild swimming and camping as we go.
We are currently on our third 7 month long road trip, travelling through the Balkans for the second time beginning in the French Alps and venturing as far East as Turkey, visiting 13 countries in between.
Our plan was simple: visit every country in Europe in our rusty tin can of a van. So far we’ve made it to 28 countries, travelling as far West as Portugal and as far East as Ukraine, having all sorts of crazy adventures in between.
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Maramures, Romania - A Journey Back in Time with Touring Romania Private Guided Tours
Haystacks are the Trademark for Maramures, Romania ! Can be 4 or even 5 meters tall, so it is a chalenge to get down after building one. But, the ladies from Maramures really knows how to do it ! :))
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O ZI în MARAMURES | Legenda de la Cascada Cailor, Moara lui Mecleș și Muzeul Țărăncii Române
Experienta noastra din Maramures a fost pe cat de interesanta pe atat de emotionanta.
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Prima ediţie din noul sezon Exclusiv în România, difuzată duminică, 20 septembrie, de la ora 17:00, la TVR1, când Cristi Tabără şi echipa lui ne-au dat întâlnire cu Charlie Ottley.
Ce şi de ce a cumpărat proprietatea de la Şirnea, cine este Oana şi ce planuri au ei împreună, de ce insistă jurnalistul să promoveze România şi cum o va face de acum încolo am aflat chiar de la celebrul producător tv, scriitor și globetrotter, cunoscut la nivel planetar pentru serialelele sale de călătorie.
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Mocănița Maramureș, Cimitirul Vesel și Memorialul Victimelor Comunismului și al Rezistentei
O plimbare pe Valea Vaserului cu Mocănița. Cazare in Vișeu de Sus, restaurante și locuri cu un view superb.
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Maramures: WWII Resistance & Romania's Heartwarming Beauty ????????
???????? Delve into the lesser-known history of Romanian villages in Maramures during WWII, where the resilience of the people faced unimaginable challenges. On August 23rd, 1944, as Romania switched sides in the war, villages like Moisei in Maramures suffered massacres at the hands of Axis forces. Join me in this episode of Romanian Dream as we honor the sacrifices made by the heroes of these villages. Our exploration continues through the picturesque Maramures, visiting Borsa, Botiza, Viseu de Sus, and experiencing the last operating steam train in Europe, Mocanita. The day concludes in the charming village of Botiza, where I encounter the warmth of locals and witness a true Romanian village wedding.
Exploring The Village Life Of Old Romania
My time in Bucharest had been extended due to a rail strike. Searching for things to do to fill my time, I discovered the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum, an ethnographic museum devoted to Romanian village life. All the Romanian houses contained within the museum are original. They have been moved from all over the country to their new home in this popular museum in Bucharest. This video also contains possibly the biggest mosiac I had seen so far and a wonderful children's choir singing Christmas songs for their proud parents and families.
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Aventura in tinutul Maramuresului | Manastirea Barsana si Sapanta, Cimitirul Vesel, Sighet, Mocanita
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De data aceasta, am ajuns în nordul țării, acolo unde ”se pune harta în cui”. Și dacă tot se pune harta, am zis să batem și noi în cuie itinerariul pentru 4 zile pline de activități în Maramureș.
După un drum lung, am ajuns la mănăstirea Bârsana, care a fost construită în 1993. Ansamblul este foarte îngrijit, plin de flori și alei care conecteaza biserica de celelalte imobile din complex. Puteți să vă lăsați mașina la o parcare pe stânga lângă poarta de lemn. Parcarea este gratuită și până la mănăstire puteți să urcați pe scări sau pe un drum din dreapta parcării și în mai puțin de 5 minute ajungeți la intrarea în complex.
Aici este biserica ce are unul dintre cele mai înalte turnuri de lemn, având 57 de metri.
Am început a doua zi cu o vizită la Memorialul Victimelor Comunismului și al Rezistenței din Sighetu Marmației, care este primul memorial din lume dedicat victimelor comunismului. (bilet de intrare 10 lei) Închisoarea a fost construită în 1897 și este locul unde și-au găsit sfârșitul mai mulți opozanți ai regimului comunist. Din 1993 a fost înființat memorialul pentru a ne reaminti ororile la care au fost expuși deținuții de aici și pentru a nu da uitării această filă a istoriei. Închisoarea este organizată pe 3 nivele și în fiecare celulă este câte o expoziție tematică. Cea mai cutremurătoare cred că a fost celula ”Neagra” care era folosită pentru a pedepsi deținuții care nu se conformau diverselor ordine.
De acolo am plecat spre mănăstirea Săpânța-Peri care a fost construită în 1997 pe locul unde a fost o biserică de piatră care a fost sediul Episcopiei Române a Maramureșului. Cu o înălțimea de 78 de metri, este cea mai înaltă biserică de lemn din lume. Datorită înălțimii acesteia se vede pe o rază de 5 km, astfel că poate fi văzută și din Ucraina.
Ultima oprire pentru această zi a fost ”Cimitirul Vesel” care a fost înființat de Stan Ioan Pătraș (bilet de intrare 5 lei). De la prima cruce pusă în cimitir în 1935/1936 și până astăzi s-au adunat aproximativ 800 de cruci. Pe cruci sunt chipurile celor care au trecut în neființă sculptate în relief și câte un epitaf pentru cei care vizitează mormintele. Unele cruci conțin scrieri pe ambele părți, pe o parte o scurtă descriere a vieții persoanei și epitaful pe partea cealaltă. În epitafele de pe cruci am observat o afinitate pentru băutură și soacre. :))
În a treia zi am hotărât să facem un traseu cu Mocănița, așa că ne-am înarmat cu răbdare, apă, niște gustări și am pornit la drum. Dacă vreți să mergeți cu Mocănița vă recomandăm să achiziționați biletele din timp (se pot cumpăra on-line și biletul standard fără mâncare este 65 de lei). În total am petrecut 6 ore, câte două ore pe drum (au fost și câteva opriri scurte) și o pauză de 2 ore la Paltin, de unde vă puteți cumpăra ceva de mâncare, și să luați loc la mesele de lemn din ”poieniță” sau puteți pur și simplu să vă bucurați de liniștea naturii și susurul apei. Nu o să vă vină să credeți, dar în 2 ore se parcurg 20 de km :D, așa că aveți timp să vă bucurați din plin de peisaje. Pont gratuit: dacă stați pe scaunele din stânga cum urcați de la Vișeul de sus (deci pe dreapta la întoarcere) vă veți bucura de peisaje atât la dus, cât și la întors.
În ultima zi ne-am propus să vizităm satul Breb, dar o ploicică ne-a scurtat vizita. Am reușit să vizităm biserica din sat, care datează din secolul al XVII-lea și am cunoscut un meșteșugar în vârstă de 94 de ani care face unelte din lemn. Așa că ne-am întors la Sighetu Marmației și am vizitat ”Muzeul Satului” pentru a vedea casele și obiceiurile locului. (bilet de intrare 10 lei). Cu toate că nu se poate compara cu experiența autentică pe care o ai atunci când vizitezi satele, aici poți să vezi toate stilurile de case și gospodării pe fast-forward în câteva ore. Cu această ultimă oprire s-a încheiat vizita noastră în Maramureș, dar am reveni cu drag oricând deoarece ne-a fermecat prin peisajele frumoase, bunăvoința oamenilor și istoria locului.
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Barsana: (0:11)
Memorialul Victimelor Comunismului si al Rezistentei din Sighetu Marmatiei: (1:47)
Sapanta: (3:39)
Cimitirul Vesel: (4:47)
Mocanita: (5:23)
Muzeul Satului Maramuresan din Sighetu Marmatiei: (7:03)
Bloopers: (8:30)