I just returned from a fantastic trip to the Maramures Valley, located in Northern Transylvania on the Romania-Ukraine border. Maramures is a Romanian county that has maintained its rich traditions and culture from centuries ago; a trip there feels like stepping into a living history museum. It's a land of wooden churches, small-scale agriculture, scenic landscape, and more horse-carts than cars. Many of the people there still felt their own wool, make their own shoes, distill their own alcohol, butcher their own pigs, live in the homes of their great-great-grandparents, and cook dishes that have been passed down from generation to generation. We stayed in a rural guesthouse in the tiny village of Botiza and toured a stretch of villages between there and Sapanta, home of the Merry Cemetery. Stay tuned for much more to come about this eco-tourism gem!
I remember well when Ceauşesco was overthrown and was later executed. It was at Christmastime and must have been 20 years ago.
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