Slovenia / Hungary / Romania: Romania Road Trip: Day 1
For this year's vacation around 1st of May we chose a road trip to Romania, organised by my friend Rok. On our first day we just drove over Slovenia and Hungary to Romania.
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| Road trip with a van, Renault Traffic Passenger 125, 1.6 litre diesel engine |
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| The crew consisted of 9 people (not all present): Nada, Špela, Špela, Tina, Gašper, Miha, Luka, Rok and Tuši |
Some facts and interesting things about Romania:
- Area: 238,391 km^2 (83rd)
- Population: 19,334,000 (October 2016) (59th)
- Flag of Romania: Three vertical stripes: blue, yellow and red.
- Capital: Bucharest ( București)
- Romania’s famous Peles Castle, located in Sinaia mountain resort, was the first completely electrified castle in Europe. The electricity was produced by the castle’s own plant.
- Bucharest’s Palace of Parliament, also known as the People’s Palace, is the world’s largest civilian building with an administrative function and the second-largest building in the world after the Pentagon in the US. It covers some 330,000 sqm.
- Timisoara, in western Romania, was the first city in Europe to have electric street-lighting (1889).
- Bucharest was the first city in the world illuminated by oil lamps (1895).
- The Danube Delta is the second-largest river delta in Europe and the best preserved on the continent. The delta hosts over 300 species of birds as well as 45 freshwater fish species in its numerous lakes and marshes.
- The stone sculpture of Decebalus, the last king of Dacia, is the tallest rock sculpture in Europe. Located near Orsova, the statue carved in stone is 40-meter high.
- Romania is the twelfth largest wine producer in the world and the sixth largest in Europe.
- Romania has one of the happiest cemeteries on Earth - Cimitirul Vesel
- Romania has 7 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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GeoCaches found:
- AC GRABONOS, GC3M42X
- M7 156 km EAST, GC3123K
- M5 35 West, GC57GV2
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