Day 46 ROMANIA Cluj Napoca

We went on a free walking tour of Cluj and learnt that Cluj had a checkered history having Dacian, Roman, Hungarian, Ottoman, Saxon rulers. Transylvania was protected in the Ottoman period because besides paying taxes to the Ottoman, they were self governed.
The much loved Hungarian King Matthias was born here.

After the walking tour we visited Hoia Forest, rumoured to be a haunted forest where a shepard and all 200 sheep vanished without a trace. We didn't find it creepy or spooky at all. We think the shepard and his sheep might have been carried away by mosquitoes. It was the descendentsof those mosquitoes that caused us to shorten our hike. Despite that, it was a very enjoyable hike, shady and not too hilly. Ruby did well navigating without trail markers and walking off track.Read more