Hi, surprisingly motivated to write so enjoy~
We booked a
biking tour online and its starting point was in Sibiu. Remember when Venie asked if I am okay with cycling before booking, I was like errrrrrrrrrrr yes go let's do it. I mean after cycling in Taiwan and Penang, it should be fine, but I don't know really, since I have not done a cycling tour, on road and mountain, I just grow to become more open to trying things I guess.
We met up with our tour guide in his house which was around 25 minutes plus walk from the old town. He was so cute hahahaha he didn't introduce himself throughout the tour. We communicated through email with someone named Mihai so he probably thought we knew that's him.
After adjusting the bikes and wearing the hat, we're ready to hit the road!
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| it was a good sunny day! |
From a park to road side bicycle lane to tar and rocky road, we rode to Rășinari. We can tell that Mihai must have slowed down a lot from his normal speed hah, I would guess his heart rate didn't rise lol exaggerating. After roughly an hour plus, we stopped at this
Muzeul Etnografic Răşinari. The door was closed when we arrived, but when our tour guide went to knock on the window (from what I remember hahaha not sure really), a lady came and welcomed us in. It is basically a museum showcasing the history and life of the residents in Răşinari.
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| it's made of hair, in 1855(?)! |
A random lucky (she wouldn't probably find the museum open if not for us?) tourist came in and just joined us. The lady was I guess like a caretaker or a volunteer or something of the museum, she explained about the artefact in Romanian and Mihai translated them to us. A whole new museum visiting experience, just us 3+the lucky tourist accompanied by a local guide and a translator! I am really grateful to have had this chance to visit this museum.
Leaving the museum, we continued to cycle up a hill. It was muddy, and hence chaotic, for me. To let us catch our breath, or just me, we stopped and had a little picnic!
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| prepared by Mihai |
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| our view |
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| all muddy |
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| still don't understand how venie can cycle without tying her hair and yea they got really bad sunburn after that :/ |
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| towards some private residence probably |
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| after our picnic/lunch, we rode to somewhere near the cloud okay not literally but near |
A small accident happened when we (except me, I was too scared of falling so I walked) rode down this rocky path shown above, Ong Xie fell down and got some bruises because a dog was probably thinking that she was playing with him and went straight towards her direction sigh lol ong xieeeee. Venie too got a cut somewhere so the conclusion is being scared of falling actually saved me from injuries but nope I am not proud of it, be braver please!
Our next stop was the
fortified church from Cisnădioara. We just left our bike at the ticket counter and went up. Again, the steps up to the church must be just like going to second floor at home for Mihai lol.
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| now sometimes a concert venue! |
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| my favourite photo of the trip aww |
We only have a polaroid with the tour guide, luckily well taken by a tourist (thankful!). Will upload it when I go home lol brought it back during summer break.
On our way back to Sibiu, we actually cycled past Romania's president! We, of course had no idea, but Mihai was all excited and pointed out to us. All the black security cars following the president on his bike, what a sight!
So, after about 5 hours of cycling, it's the end of the tour! I'm really glad we made this decision (again), please say more yeses to new challenges people, you never know, it might one of the memories that make you smile when you're 70 :目
We lingered in Sibiu old town for ice cream and some breads, and finally left to the train station for our last city in Romania, Cluj Napoca. It was I think a 6 hours ride and we had to transfer at
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| "Can you see the station name?" *wait for 5 seconds* |
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| Did they forget about the roof... |
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| and this, is how rainbow is formed! |
On our second train, we were in a cabin with an old man, grandpa age, and actually acted like ours. He tried all his best to offer us his help, talked to us in Romanian and sign language (
he wanted to know where were we heading to and showed us his ticket, his stop was like a small village, and would take 11 hours or so, poor grandpa :/ ), tried to give us fruits (
including kiwi which I was not sure if we had accepted it we'd have to eat the skin lol), helped to ask another drunk grandpa (
who followed me into the cabin when I went to the corridor to take photos) to leave our cabin, he was so niceeeee. May he be healthy and happy now and everyday, dear grandpa from somewhere I cannot recall in Romania :)
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| I can't choose so both sides |
When we got off the train at 9pm, the grandpa even tried to help us with our luggage. Too kindddd.
The
accommodation was again quite nice, somehow decorated with garlic hahaha. The son of the host was really good-looking, I don't even remember how he looked like, I just know that he is, okay stahp. We were too hungry and it was too late so we just bought some instant noodles from the host's mini market around the corner. How convenient hah! And then, we went home to realize there was no matches or blowtorch or whatsoever to start the fire lol, back to the mini market for matches, you're welcome, the next guests.
And that's it for the day, one last full day in Romania left!
To be continued.....
