Transfagarasan Highway Tour from Brasov: Discover Balea Lake and Carta Monastery

Embark on a breathtaking tour of the Transfagarasan Highway from Brasov. Explore the stunning Balea Lake and visit the historic Carta Monastery. Book now!

Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Transfagarasan Highway - It is the most spectacular and beautiful mountain road in Europe, enough to feature on the UK motor show Top Gear, Transfagarasan Highway might just be “the best road in the world” as Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson claimed.
    It’s a road going up in the mountains and unites Transylvania with Valachia. Great scenes, noisy…
What's Included
  • Guidance by a professional guide
  • Provision of maps
  • Luxury transportation via Mercedes van or equivalent
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off in Brasov
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Tickets at the cable car ( 20 euro up and down) ( November 1th to July 1th))
Additional Information

A skilled guide will fetch you from your Basov hotel, taking you on a journey to the most awe-inspiring road in Europe - Transfagarasan. We’ll make our first stop at the Carta Monastery, an exquisite late-Gothic masterpiece constructed by Cistercian monks who migrated from Burgundy, France to Transylvania.
Transfagarasan Highway, popularized by the…

Location
Transfagarasan Highway
Dn 7C, Sibiu and Arges County
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Amanda_s
Nov 6, 2024
Lovely day! - Our guide Claudiu is very knowledgeable and gave great information and time with options of activities at stops. He provided a prompt and safe drive up and down the mountain. He even gave a recommendation for dinner near where we stay. It was a great day and recommend those who can to see these sights. The pictures just don't do it justice.
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Roshni2011
Oct 8, 2024
Transfagarasan day tour - Transfagarasan Road, Balea lake Carta Monastery with Discovery Transylvania. An exhilarating experience blessed with perfect. Traian did a perfect job. Lunch at a trout farm was the icing on the cake.
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Alfredo
Oct 8, 2024
Great experience - The Transfagarasan road is spectacular. The views are amazing. You have to drive with caution but it is not dangerous. It's very well marked. And you see bears in their natural habitat. Lake Bakea is nice, it's on the top
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886duncanb
Aug 20, 2024
Beautiful scenery - amazing road - We really enjoyed this trip. We started quite early as the Highway can get really busy and were rewarded with lots of easy stops to take in the stunning views as the road climbed ahead of us. Truly an amazing place and we enjoyed wandering around by Lake Balea at the top once we’d left the various stalls behind. The peace, tranquility and quite different beauty of the Monastery on the way back only added to our day. Claudiu was a super driver for the trip. He was knowledgeable, kind and helped make this a trip to remember. Thank you.
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Vetgirl2004
Jun 30, 2024
Would highly recommend this tour company - Great communication during booking process. Fun day. Hotel pick up and drop off, comfy transport. Traian was an excellent guide, full of knowledge so I learnt a lot about the area. Great views. We even got to see a bear too!
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115esayask
Jun 21, 2024
Transfagarasan Highway Balea Lake and Tarta Monastery with lake Balea and - The trip was well organized with a fantastic driver. The drive to lake Balea is spectacular with stops for pictures. Claudiu was an excellent guide with a deep knowledge about the monastery and explained it very well. The trip was well worth it. I recommend to anyone who comes to Braşov to book it with Claudiu. Esayas
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Nicklas_c
Feb 23, 2024
A Good Day Out - A really enjoyable day out. Trian was very knowledgeable - precise heights of mountains, dates, names, etc, all came tripping off memory. This being winter, the tour was not the full length of the highway and I knew that would be the case before we set out. I had expected we would be able to do more of the highway before moving into a cable car, but that was my mistake, so no stars deducted for that. But just as a note to others keen for the drive - book in summer! Still worth the day out, though, and I have some amazing snowy mountain photos. Strangely, I really enjoyed wandering into the road tunnel at the top of the mountain on foot, when the road is completely hidden under a snow drift. Bizarre juxtaposition of worlds.
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Tbowmanm
Oct 29, 2023
Peak fall colors on the Transfagarasan Highway - This is a fantastic trip, especially in late October. Claudio was our driver. He was very knowledgeable about transylvania. We orignally booked our trip from Brashov to Brashov, but had to make a late change because of our hotel. For a small fee, Claudio was able to pick us up in Poiana Brashov. He also adjusted our pick up time so that we got to the Carta Monastery just as it was opening. This was much appreciated. The drive up (or south) on the Transfafarasan Hwy was incredible. Claudio knew where to stop for the best views. On our way up, Claudio shared with us information about the abundance of brown bears in Transylvania and the crazy people who feed them on the highway. As if on cue, we spotted some crazy people feeding a brown bear and a brown bear on the road on our way down. Claudio dropped us off in Brashov at our request and provided us some recommended sites to see there. We can't recommend this trip highly enough.
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Oana_u
Sep 24, 2023
Excellence at its best! - Our tour guide was just perfect! Very knowledgeable on the history of each place visited who knew just what was needed at each point of the trip . He was extremely proffessional subtle and we ended up having a private experience that day which only made this surprise event for my boyfriend’s 40th bday ever more special and very intimate! High regards!
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Giovannicl318fe
Aug 9, 2023
Very professional and expert guide - It was an amazing experience. Traian is a serious, reliable, helpful and professional guide. He was able to show us the beauty of Transylvania in a well-organised tour.
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