Romania – Bucovina

outubro 07, 2015

Romania – Bucovina – Day Four

After visiting some beautiful monasteries in the previous day, and fallowing the advice of a good friend from Suceava, we went for a ride in a small old steam train (the Mocanita Hutulca – Moldovita), which has a small circuit in this area.

If you expect to find scenic views, with bridges, rivers and tunnels, this is not the best option… but on the other hand, if you want to be near traditions, houses made of wood, with beautiful gardens full of flowers, with people passing on the streets on their daily life… you must experience this small trip.

After this great train trip it was time to return to the monastery visiting, this time to Moldovita. We didn’t stayed much in here, but like the others we saw, in here you can see a lot of people, that I don’t know if most of them are in any way tourist, or just people with deep religious believes. It’s a calm place, even with so many persons around, and the daily life of the nuns doesn’t seem to be affected in any way with our presence.

Here there was a geocache to be found: Bucovina Trail - Moldovita

Now it was time to go up in and go to the mountains nearby, once the next stage was the Sucevita Monastery, that is located on the other side of the mountains. The views are more than wonderful, with green, a lot of different shades of green. At the top we stopped for a few moments, to see a monument dedicated to the builders of the mountain road in the Carpathians, to search a geocache ( Bucovina Trail - Moldovita), but most of all, to enjoy the landscape.

On our way down, to Sucevita, the road was to tricky… but nice views!

Our lunch was at the Popas turistic BUCOVINA’s, which a great place for a stop, and also for staying for some days, once the it’s very well preserved and with a lot of traditional meals.

Sucevita is one of the most wonderful monasteries, with a very beautiful church and nice surroundings. Here, the only thing that I regret was not to have the time to go to one of the surrounding valleys, which show us all beauty.

It's Santa!

This day had one more touristic site, but it wasn’t our next destination. We went to MARGINEA BLACK CERAMICS FACTORY, which is known for the traditional production of pottery which the colour is black

Finally, this day ended in Voronet, also a very well-known monastery, with great paintings, both inside and outside. It seemed to be one of the mostly visited places, with a lot of tourists.