Come along with Jake and Tom on our latest trip to Romania! Join us as we take a castle tour through Transylvania, drive through the stunning Romanian landscape and visit the old town of Brasov, full of gorgeous architecture and winding streets.

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Hello and welcome to Romania, I'm Jake from Holiday Extras Travel Guides and I'm here with Tom (Hello!) who's from our social team - he runs all of our social media platforms - and we're out here in Romania to shoot some lovely content for our Facebook page and everything like that and we just thought we'd give you a bit of a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like for us here on shoot so we're going to take you with us we're spending two days here shooting lots of lovely content and... yeah!(Let's see what we can see!) Yeah!

Day 1 of our trip in Romania and what we've got planned today is a lovely little sort of mini one-day castle tour and we're going to be heading to Peles Castle which is about an hour away from where we're staying then onto... ooh Rasnov Fortress and then Bran Castle from there Bran Castle is the one that's famous for having inspired Dracula whichI can't wait to see should be really really cool. Can sort of hear farm equipment and kids and stuff in the background of where we're staying there are some cows in the fields as well literally just off the balcony which is amazing very relaxing way to wake up I think. Feel very connected to nature. And the black coffee is helping as well, so. See you in a bit!

Hello! So we've just arrived at the beautiful Peles Castle which I think you can see in the background there along with dear Tom. Took us about an hour's drive to get here from where we were staying but it was a beautiful drive and the landscape was crazy. Hm suppose you can't see past the tree line but we're right in the middle of the Carpathian Mountains where
this is based and it's beautiful.

All finished up Peles Castle and now we're gonna head off to Rasnov Fortress which is about another hour's drive away but here's a quick Jake and Tom tip for you. This pathway up the to
the castle is cobbled and there are a fair few cobbles missing so I would say make sure you pack some lovely walking shoes to make it nice and easy.

So here we are on our way up the little forest path to Rasnov Fortress - Took about an hour to get here from Peles Castle which I've already said but still it was a lovely drive I really would recommend getting a hire car because the landscape here in Romania is insane and then you can do stuff like drive out to a castle that's an hour away! So. I'll see you at the top this roads getting quite steep as you can probably hear I'm already a little bit out of breath and See you when we're up there!

So here we are at the top of Rasnov Fortress and I don't know if you can see that but the view is absolutely stunning. It's brilliant.

So as you walk - we're inside Rasnov Fortress now as you walk through it not only is there stunning views in every single direction but it's also full of these like original structures as well some of which are really broken down and some others have sort of been restored and being used for tourist shops it's just really cool. To see such piece of history.

So we're on our way back down now from the top of the castle and it was stunning. I can't recommend it enough. The views of like the surrounding forest and mountains and then Rasnov down below was just crazy. Absolutely do it. And now we're gonna head to Bran Castle - hopefully catch ourselves a lovely sunset.

Here's another Jake and Tom tip - we're heading back down and this lovely little walk we showed you before but there is actually like a tractor that can take you up the hill if you don't want to do it. The walk is only about 10 minutes, but it is super steep so no shame in getting the tractor up here and it only costs about 5 Romanian lei (about that yeah) which is about like 1 pound, if that. So it's well worth it if you want to save yourself the trouble, save a bit of time.

So after a bit of a mess finding parking we're here at Castle Bran. Parking was really reasonable it's only 4 lei an hour so we've got plenty time to chill out. The Sun's setting there is a lovely garden here just outside Castle Bran which we're taking the opportunity to chill out in, its nice little water features you know it's just really nice it's good chance - good to get a chance - to unwind after such a busy day.