Busteni is the main trailhead point for hiking to the top of the Bucegi massif - like up to that cross you saw at the top of the mountains. You made it to the waterfall, which is a good ways up the mountain. On my first visit to Romania, I hiked up to the cross from Busteni while the rest of my group went to Brasov. I believe that Cantacuzino was also the name of the Romanian Orthodox monk who made a trip to the Holy Land in the middle ages and founded the town of Sinaia, which is a little ways down the hill from Busteni. He named the town Sinaia because a prominent mountain seen from there reminded him of Mount Sinai.
I came to Romania for the first time in March 2023 and did not have very good expectations. However. What a beautiful country and some brilliant food… I could live on Sarmale and Papernasi…
Cantacuzino castle is built in the Neoromanian style ,romanias original architectural style which is a combination of Italian and Byzantine/Turkish styles + decorative elements from Romanian folklore
We hope you can get there soon! It is so wonderful. My entire family is from Germany, and I just got there a few years ago and it was amazing :) so fun connecting with your roots! Thank you for watching!
Thanks for pointing out that important difference, Stefan. The Eastern Orthodox Church is quite different from Roman Catholicism, in its basic understanding and approach to God and spirituality, and in so much else. While the western half of Eastern Europe, like Poland, tends to be Catholic, the eastern half of the Balkans, like Romania, is Orthodox.
Such a beautiful country! Love the waterfalls but not the bear worries! Coffee is so expensive in the US just a few days ago I had a small cappuccino in Nashville $6.
Five Below wishes they had coffee like 5 to go. You should have been able to see bears in that open field. That looked like perfect conditions. So happy we toured around Cantacuzino Castle. It's an incredible site!
Omg. If you are in Busteni, you really REALLY need to take the cable up to the mountain and go to Caraiman cross. It's easy hike (no bears, as it's plateau) and the view is INSANE. Do not miss it if u're still there.
We are seriously sooo sad we didn't get to do this, it was our plan to go but somehow time got away from us. But this gives us a very good excuse to go back ;) thanks for the recommendation!!
Entering the Castle's park was free, some years ago, but I suppose they decided to cash in the notoriety from the series. And you guys didn't actually reach the waterfall "Urlatoarea" that is at the end of that trail. You actually lost the trail, by the looks of it. At least you enjoyed the view, as it was :)
Hi, nice video. If you are still in Romania and have time, you must visit Fundata & Fundata Resort, Sibiu, Brasov and Oradea as well before leaving our Country. Thanks for visiting and Enjoy!
Castel Cantacuzino, very nice place, this year me and my fiance will do our wedding there. We rented the castel fom 14:00 till the next day in the weekend, just us the staff and the guests. We are so excited.
The Monastery is orthodox which is the dominant branch of Christianity in Romania. When the original christian church split in 1054 (i think, I m not sure exactely over the year but research the Great schism or split, not sure how to call it in English), it split into the Catholic Church in the Western Roman Empire and Orthodox in the Eastern or Bizantine Empire (the Eastern remanants of the Roman empire). Other mainly orthodox countries that you may have heared of are Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Belaruss, Greece and Serbia I believe. Mainly Greece and Russia havr the 2 types of orthodoxy that some people follow, the more influencial countries so to say but no many want to get away from the Russian orthodoxy ways for obvious reasons (the Russians celebrate Christmas on 7th of January while Romanians, Bulgarians and Greeks celebrate it with the Western Catholic world on the 24th of December, we still celebrate Easter with them but it s in talks to change and lots of people want that). However not all Romanians are Orthodox, there are Catholics, some protestant churches and even muslims, at least those are the official recognised cults. Edited to add the correct year of the schism.
@@JacobandJennyTravel the patriarchs from each country have to agree on changing the date for Easter. Russia will obviously not agree but the others can agree to change it if it s enough will from the leadership of those churches and from the followers. In Romania there is even some petition you can sign to show support for that measure. Even non believers want to change the date due to practical and political reasons. The orthodox churches dont have one leader like the Catholic church, it s all country based so tehnically Romania or Greece for example can change the date without Russia having a say into it for example. The Ukrainians already started celebrating Christmas in December since the war started as a statement of getting further away from the Russian culture and church. There are similar reasons for why the other countries would like to change the Easter s date plus the fact lots of Romanian emigrants work in Catholic countries and cannot celebrate Easter with all of us since they dont get their free days in the same period.
@@andreeas.2362 in fact, if we are talking about Easter, the Ierusalim patriarchate has the final decision. The mistery of the Easter fire in Christ's tomb is too important for Orthodox churches!
Many non-European countries practice some form of Orthodox Christianity (as far as Ethiopia or the southern Indian state of Kerala). Georgia in the Caucasus is one of the most Orthodox countries.
By the time you leave Romania you'll be 10 kilos fatter. Food is so, so good. The Monastery was built there because a monk I've met many years ago had a vision. You should have seen how modest were the beggings. Anyway, if you're still there, go up on the plateau and see the Caraiman Cross. The view from there is stunning and the cross I think is about 35 meters high.
Hahaha you are SO right, the food is delicious!! We can't eat enough cabbage rolls, they are too good! Wow that is fascinating. Now it is very big! Thanks for your comment :)
@@JacobandJennyTravel that dance made by Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) i like to watch often ... :D also the "Cold Mountain" (2003) movie, with Jude Law ,Nicole Kidman ,Renee Zellweger, Natalie Portman, was filmed in our country , in Brasov county... that movie won awards back then ("...Though the story is set in Virginia and North Carolina, nearly all of the movie was filmed in Romania (Brasov county) for its landscape and low costs. Minghella found the unspoiled beech and birch forests and mountains - home to bears, deer and wolves - and the rural farmlands the closest thing to the North Carolina of the Civil War...")
@@JacobandJennyTravel Haittaako teitä kun minä aina kommentoin näitä?? Kertokaa vaan, niin lopetan. Olen niin vanha että en tuota teidän kieltä osaa Kiitos.
@@JacobandJennyTravel It is not offensive to me, it is offensive to you, because this is a question of EDUCATION. And of sense of observation: there was nobody dressed like you inside the monastery. You would never go dressed like that to a Bach , Mozart concert or to Opera. „There are a few things to keep in mind when dressing for an Orthodox church. The first and most important is that you should dress modestly and not sexy. This means not wearing shorts, short skirts or low-cut tops. You should also avoid exposing your shoulders and legs above knee. When being back in your country, dress the same way and try to enter a Catholic Church....
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Bears in Romania are really chill, you should not get close to them, but if you don't mind them, they don't mind you.
That is good to know!! Thanks for sharing :)
Busteni is the main trailhead point for hiking to the top of the Bucegi massif - like up to that cross you saw at the top of the mountains. You made it to the waterfall, which is a good ways up the mountain. On my first visit to Romania, I hiked up to the cross from Busteni while the rest of my group went to Brasov. I believe that Cantacuzino was also the name of the Romanian Orthodox monk who made a trip to the Holy Land in the middle ages and founded the town of Sinaia, which is a little ways down the hill from Busteni. He named the town Sinaia because a prominent mountain seen from there reminded him of Mount Sinai.
We are so sad we never got to the cross on top of the mountain. We will have to go back someday to get there!! Thank you for watching :)
I really love when people come to visit our country and see the reality, not what media shows on tv and news.
I came to Romania for the first time in March 2023 and did not have very good expectations. However. What a beautiful country and some brilliant food… I could live on Sarmale and Papernasi…
@@simonpilk yes, because media shows bullshit about our country.
It is such a wonderful place, we love it very much! Thanks for sharing your country with us :)
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The monastery is Orthodox Christian. Nice vlog .I am glad that you felt good in our country! Thank you !
Good to know!! We had a great time. Thank you for your comments :)
Cantacuzino castle is built in the Neoromanian style ,romanias original architectural style which is a combination of Italian and Byzantine/Turkish styles + decorative elements from Romanian folklore
That is amazing, thank you for sharing :) it is a beautiful place!
Hey guys, I am originally from Romania and live in US and I haven’t been there yet, I am little gelos 😅😅 thank you for promoting the beautiful country
We hope you can get there soon! It is so wonderful. My entire family is from Germany, and I just got there a few years ago and it was amazing :) so fun connecting with your roots! Thank you for watching!
Wow. Monastery in the forest. A bear (though not shown) and a castle. It's really like Hansel and Gretel haha in a fairy tale.
Hahaha wow you are so right!! We really did feel like it was a fairytale village!
The Monastery is Orthodox. So is the main religion in Romania
That is great to know! Thank you for the information :)
Thanks for pointing out that important difference, Stefan. The Eastern Orthodox Church is quite different from Roman Catholicism, in its basic understanding and approach to God and spirituality, and in so much else. While the western half of Eastern Europe, like Poland, tends to be Catholic, the eastern half of the Balkans, like Romania, is Orthodox.
you can drink that water...nelive that??
Enjoy your stay wonderful people, thank you for visiting!
Thank you! We are having an amazing time!! :)
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Such a beautiful country! Love the waterfalls but not the bear worries! Coffee is so expensive in the US just a few days ago I had a small cappuccino in Nashville $6.
It is so wonderful! And the coffee prices make it better haha! Ugh, coffee prices are wild in the US. Such a bummer!! But I bet Nashville was amazing!
Five Below wishes they had coffee like 5 to go. You should have been able to see bears in that open field. That looked like perfect conditions. So happy we toured around Cantacuzino Castle. It's an incredible site!
Hahahaha!! Dang bears, show yourself!! It is so beautiful there!
to keep the bears away from you, you have to make noise 😉to turn up the volume to the music ! ❤🇹🇩
That is a great tip!! We will blast the music haha!🎉
Omg. If you are in Busteni, you really REALLY need to take the cable up to the mountain and go to Caraiman cross. It's easy hike (no bears, as it's plateau) and the view is INSANE. Do not miss it if u're still there.
We are seriously sooo sad we didn't get to do this, it was our plan to go but somehow time got away from us. But this gives us a very good excuse to go back ;) thanks for the recommendation!!
Good video!! Romania is very beautiful ! 👍
Thank you so much!! Romania is gorgeous!
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Entering the Castle's park was free, some years ago, but I suppose they decided to cash in the notoriety from the series. And you guys didn't actually reach the waterfall "Urlatoarea" that is at the end of that trail. You actually lost the trail, by the looks of it. At least you enjoyed the view, as it was :)
Yeah that is what we figured too since the show made the castle so popular!! Haha good to know!! Thanks so much for watching :)
* * Very nice presentation guys! Bravo! * *
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching :)
Such nice and cute people❤ Thank you for visiting and appreciating our country 🎉🎉🎉 Enjoy 🍀💙💛❤
Thank you so much friend ♥️ Romania is so wonderful!!
When you are in the woods, you need to make noise, so the bear can hear you are there and walk away from you...nice staying in Romania!...👍
That is great advice, that is what we have been doing 🙌🏼 thanks for sharing!
Also available for snakes...
Only on Transfagarasan you can be close in the car to them(bears) !
Good thing we are doing the Transfagarasan 🙌🏼🙌🏼 thanks for watching :)
Hi, nice video.
If you are still in Romania and have time, you must visit Fundata & Fundata Resort, Sibiu, Brasov and Oradea as well before leaving our Country.
Thanks for visiting and Enjoy!
We will look those places up! Thank you so much for the recommendations :)
So glad you guys get to experience a bit of our beautiful country. You seem so wholesome. Safe travels.
Thank you so much!! We are loving Romania, it is wonderful :)
Hello! Love your content! Those horses are actually poneys. :D which are basically little horses.
We are so glad to hear that!! Thanks so much for watching! And we loved the ponies 🐴
Castel Cantacuzino, very nice place, this year me and my fiance will do our wedding there. We rented the castel fom 14:00 till the next day in the weekend, just us the staff and the guests. We are so excited.
Wow that sounds like a dream wedding!! Have a wonderful time :)
Beautiful country
It is gorgeous!!
Really
Zile minunate in continuare 👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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I think you wanted to see Urlatoarea Falls but you did not reach it. It is a 45min hike
Hahahah yes I think you are right 😂
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Thank you so much friend!! Lots of love to you!
I love it ❤
Thank you friend ☺️
You are very nice people! And I m a bit jealous on you Jacob😅
You are so kind, thank you very much!! And hahaha 😉
I just finally watched Wednesday!
It is so good right?! A little creepy sometimes but perfect for autumn 🙌🏼🍂
The Monastery is orthodox which is the dominant branch of Christianity in Romania. When the original christian church split in 1054 (i think, I m not sure exactely over the year but research the Great schism or split, not sure how to call it in English), it split into the Catholic Church in the Western Roman Empire and Orthodox in the Eastern or Bizantine Empire (the Eastern remanants of the Roman empire). Other mainly orthodox countries that you may have heared of are Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria, Belaruss, Greece and Serbia I believe. Mainly Greece and Russia havr the 2 types of orthodoxy that some people follow, the more influencial countries so to say but no many want to get away from the Russian orthodoxy ways for obvious reasons (the Russians celebrate Christmas on 7th of January while Romanians, Bulgarians and Greeks celebrate it with the Western Catholic world on the 24th of December, we still celebrate Easter with them but it s in talks to change and lots of people want that). However not all Romanians are Orthodox, there are Catholics, some protestant churches and even muslims, at least those are the official recognised cults.
Edited to add the correct year of the schism.
Wow that is so interesting, thank you for sharing all of that information! How will they decide to change Easter or not?
@@JacobandJennyTravel the patriarchs from each country have to agree on changing the date for Easter. Russia will obviously not agree but the others can agree to change it if it s enough will from the leadership of those churches and from the followers. In Romania there is even some petition you can sign to show support for that measure. Even non believers want to change the date due to practical and political reasons. The orthodox churches dont have one leader like the Catholic church, it s all country based so tehnically Romania or Greece for example can change the date without Russia having a say into it for example. The Ukrainians already started celebrating Christmas in December since the war started as a statement of getting further away from the Russian culture and church. There are similar reasons for why the other countries would like to change the Easter s date plus the fact lots of Romanian emigrants work in Catholic countries and cannot celebrate Easter with all of us since they dont get their free days in the same period.
@@rain-cy6verussia have no say at all. Athos mountain (Greece) have a say. Russia did not even exist when orthodoxy was a thing.
@@andreeas.2362 in fact, if we are talking about Easter, the Ierusalim patriarchate has the final decision. The mistery of the Easter fire in Christ's tomb is too important for Orthodox churches!
Many non-European countries practice some form of Orthodox Christianity (as far as Ethiopia or the southern Indian state of Kerala). Georgia in the Caucasus is one of the most Orthodox countries.
By the time you leave Romania you'll be 10 kilos fatter. Food is so, so good.
The Monastery was built there because a monk I've met many years ago had a vision. You should have seen how modest were the beggings.
Anyway, if you're still there, go up on the plateau and see the Caraiman Cross. The view from there is stunning and the cross I think is about 35 meters high.
Hahaha you are SO right, the food is delicious!! We can't eat enough cabbage rolls, they are too good! Wow that is fascinating. Now it is very big! Thanks for your comment :)
The first season of 'Wednesday' was very good, I hope that the second season of the series will be as good as the first...
We agree!! We watched it after we visited the castle and really enjoyed it! Hopefully the next season comes out soon 🙌🏼
@@JacobandJennyTravel that dance made by Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) i like to watch often ... :D
also the "Cold Mountain" (2003) movie, with Jude Law ,Nicole Kidman ,Renee Zellweger, Natalie Portman, was filmed in our country , in Brasov county... that movie won awards back then ("...Though the story is set in Virginia and North Carolina, nearly all of the movie was filmed in Romania (Brasov county) for its landscape and low costs. Minghella found the unspoiled beech and birch forests and mountains - home to bears, deer and wolves - and the rural farmlands the closest thing to the North Carolina of the Civil War...")
BOTH ARE VERY SIMPATIC I WISH ALL THE BEST 4 AMERICA AND HIS PEOPLE
Thank you :)
The "5 To Go" name comes from the idea of having a 5 LEI ( 1.07 USD) coffee and other 5 LEI products. That was the original price.
That is so cool! Thanks for the information!
If you were trying to hike to Urlatoarea Waterfall, that was not it. You probably strayed from the path. It’s much bigger and it isn’t man made.
Haha that is good to know! Thanks for letting us know :)
Enjoy as you can guys bc you will 😭after🤔🤔🤔
Are you sick, or hungarian? Or both?
We will definitely be so sad when we leave Romania! It is such a wonderful place :)
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it is an orthodox monastery
Thank you for letting us know :)
Hienot paikat taas ja oppaat👍👍
Thank you Jari :)
@@JacobandJennyTravel Haittaako teitä kun minä aina kommentoin näitä?? Kertokaa vaan, niin lopetan. Olen niin vanha että en tuota teidän kieltä osaa Kiitos.
Walking is good , guys , makes you stay healthy an manage your ...weight !
Haha you are right! It is awesome to walk 🙌🏼
@@JacobandJennyTravel Hahaha.I like smart people with a good sense of humor
Covrigi e buonissimo 🤗👏🤩🇮🇹🇷🇴
It is!! Thank you so much for watching friend 🇷🇴☺️
Esti italianca de Moldova?
That river water is better to drink than any other supermarket bottles ... next level of water .
That sounds amazing and delicious! :)
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26 haha!
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Romanians are Ortodox
Thanks so much for the information :)
Not all many are catholics or Protestants
Im glas when someone descovery pur beutyfull country, jump ofer stereotipa about gypsie and corruption
It is such a wonderful place :) thanks for watching!
Awfully dressed to be on the premises of a monastery. THERE IS A DRESS CODE !
We did check to see if there was any signs about a dress code and we didn't see any. We are sorry if it was offensive to you!
@@JacobandJennyTravel It is not offensive to me, it is offensive to you, because this is a question of EDUCATION. And of sense of observation: there was nobody dressed like you inside the monastery.
You would never go dressed like that to a Bach , Mozart concert or to Opera.
„There are a few things to keep in mind when dressing for an Orthodox church. The first and most important is that you should dress modestly and not sexy. This means not wearing shorts, short skirts or low-cut tops. You should also avoid exposing your shoulders and legs above knee.
When being back in your country, dress the same way and try to enter a Catholic Church....
@@ppn194Calmează-te.
@@dag1512 Marș!
@@ppn194 Ziceai ceva de "educație"? 😆 Ce ironic și de-a dreptul penibil.
5 (bears) to go.
Hahaha!! 🐻☕️ thanks for watching!