Villages, cities and people
The rural part of Romania is increasingly becoming a great attraction for the tourists from all around the world. Attracted by
the old traditional architecture, the quietness of the village, the traditional food and traditional costumes or the scenery of
the areas, new tourists come every year and book a house in small beautiful rural spaces, leaving the city noise at home.
Most of them describe living for a while in this parts of Romania as stepping back in time. Romania is full of small villages,
where little wrinkled old ladies sit out on their front benches to gossip in the evenings, where shepherds still tend sheep and
cows, and where you’re more likely to be awoken by a rooster than the morning traffic. Electricity, satellite dishes and cell
phones abound here, but you are able to easily look past them to the essence of life in the Romanian countryside.
Life is still blissfully simple in these regions. You can still find fresh homemade bread, cheese, and butter on the table each
night. Farmers still use horses and carts to do the farming work and transport everything from hay to firewood. Kids still
play outside instead of on smart phones or in front of the TV.
These regions are poorer — people live on very little here, and have to be resourceful to survive, they live in small homes
and do lots of physical work (like building hay stacks by hand) Those are the elements that form the reality of life in rural
parts of Romania, in its beautiful and honest simplicity.
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