Americans in ROMANIA (Our HONEST First Impressions) 🇷🇴
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2023
- As we enter our 25th country, we have nothing left to sugar coat. We're gonna share our honest thoughts on this country as we use the transport, eat the food, and even go on an exclusive tour. Today we present to you Bucharest like you've never seen a tourist show it before. Let's dive right in. This is Romania.
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Much love from Serbia to my Romanian brothers and sisters!
❤🇷🇸❤🇷🇸
Hello from here..😊
Hello, serbian friend. Cheers.
Добро вече, my Serbian brother! 😍
Much love from Romania! How are you?? ❤🇷🇸
@@SDan822 Great, thanks for asking! You? ❤️🇷🇴
what an adventure! we just came back from Romania and we're honestly impressed by the nature, people and all the wonderful culture it has 😍
Couldn't agree more! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
SOMO FELICE CHE LA MIO PAESE DI ORIGINE VI SIA PIACIUTO.MA BUCUR CA TARA MEA DE ORIHINE V A PLACUT .IO ANCHE SE VIVO DA 45 ANNI IN ITALIA NON DIMENTICHERÒ MAI IL NOSTRO BELLISSIMO, AFFASCINANTE PAESE E NEANCHE LA NOSTRA LINGUA.TRADUCO: EU CHIAR DACA TRAIESC IN ITALIA DE 45 DE ANI NU VOI UITA NICIODATA FRUMOASA SI ATRAGATOAREA MEA TARA,SI NICI LIMBA NOASTRA. 👵🌺🖐👍🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴❤❤❤❤🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
I like how you made that link with Romanian and Latin - we worked with a ton of Romanians and a lot of them could speak pretty decent Spanish 👀 And they always mentioned that they grew up watching tellanovelas too 😅 I don't know how telenovelas ended up in Romania, but it's pretty cool how knowing one latin based language helps you understand other latin based languages ☺☺
In Romania , all films have written subtitles , not dubbed languege . This helps us to understand Latin languages more easily .
Thanks for sharing! ❤🇷🇴
That is so cool! Who doesn't love a good telenovella? ❤❤
@raduvalentinrosca3996 Also because Romanian is fully a Latin language
@@WITYTRAVELSI don’t love telenovelas but in the 90s especially there was a lot of those on TV, it was known as “housewife tv”. Also many Romanians worked in Spain and Italy so they speak these languages pretty well. On top of it they’re all romance languages so there are a lot of similarities. I haven’t studied either of them in school but I’m decent at Italian and Spanish without living there or watching telenovelas.
Bine ați venit în România!
Thank you! ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
Oo lovely, we’ve always fancied Romania and never been. Wow it’s quiet! Great info on the local travel as always. The currency is very colourful! There’s some amazing architecture, loved the presidents house. There’s some amazing street art, but again so quiet! It looks beautiful - Bucharest now added to our future travels! Cheers 🍻
So happy, you are adding Romania to your list. We think that is a good idea. Those are some of our favourite bills. The capital was actually more peaceful than some other areas where we stayed close to a hospital I guess, because there were so many sirens throughout the day. Thanks friends!
Wooo we love Romania food haha!! That bowling was awesome! And the cinnamon roll looked so good!
Loved the cinnamon bun. Bowling was a great deal. How could you not love Romanian food??
If you want vegetarian cabbage rolls you should ask if they have "de post" - they are eaten during fasting time and have mushrooms instead of meat.
Thanks for the tip! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
or rise(orez).
Very happy you enjoyed your stay in my home city of Bucharest :)
Growing up, traveling abroad was a privilege for the rich. There was a time when just to leave the country you needed to obtain a visa, get an invitation from someone living in the country of destination and you needed to have 300 EUROS on your person, as proof that you're not going there to beg or squat. (300 euros was more than the minimum salary at the time).
I am very happy that Romania is becoming more and more of a tourist destination and there's people from all over the world discovering our little quirky country in Eastern Europe.
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It is not such a "rich" country, but at least it is a safe country without attacks or other problems. The future will probably be better. ❤ Wellcome.
We loved it! Very safe. ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
This video was insane, you did a great job on the video. So happy that you got to make it
Thank you so much!! Your comments mean more than you know.
Very good vieo. I'm glad you liked what you saw and lived here. I worked on the construction of the parliament palace, me, my brother, my wife and my father. It is good to communicate to those who intend to visit us that safety comes first and Romanians are very welcoming.
Welcome to Romania! We love you and have been waiting for you for 78 years. 👍
Thank you very much for your comment! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
The first thing I noticed is how quiet the city is - like foot traffic and road traffic 👀 I wonder if it's like that year-round? OMG Will you're killing me with that cinnamon bun with brownie on top, it's looks so good 😅🥲😍 Lol, when I clicked on this video I kind of expected to be seeing castles, haha, but I guess you don't see those in the big cities 😅💀
Those cinnamon buns were sooo good! Don't worry, many castles to come in the series! ❤❤
Actually at the south of the Charpatian mountains down to the Danube you will not find castles only ruins of fortresses because the Otomans when they granted the right to rules to Mihai the brave one of the conditions was that he destroys all the fortresses… which the idiot obeyed… I am not a fan of Mihai the Brave 😂😅
So in Bucharest close to stravopoles church you will find in the old city the ruins of the citadel that used to be the residence of the rulers and in Targoviste like about 60 kg to the north is the former capital which still has standing one tower
So yes no castles in this area
It's like this pretty much the entire year. It's busier in September-October and December-January because of the school year starts in in the beginning of autumn and everyone starts the winter break in December
no its not, they must have visited in the summer when many people go away on holidays or in the weekend when its also way quiet
I live in Bucharest born here & i don' t own a car. I go with bus, metro, tram & train & some time when i am really in a hurry and i don' t know the location i use Bolt (chepper then Uber, and faster) my kid loves to go with public transport, even from time to time a sweet granny gives her sweets 😂❤. Also dowlowd the aplication INFO STB ( with a blue colour) & you will see the hour , the location , when stb comes, what number of the bus you have to take just put the location there and you have all the information you need for stb( busses rides) ❤ the aplication is FREE❤
We love public transportation and Romania's is really good. That is so nice about the granny giving sweets. Thanks for telling us about the application. ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
9:42 you can also pay contactless straight at the thing where you validate the ticket. Just put your phone/card/smartwatch on top and that's it.
Thank you for this information! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Very nice walkaround the city...go to Therme baths, you will like it a lot for sure !
Thanks for the tip! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
I didn't know about Romania, interesting and beautiful!!!
Glad you know now. Thanks for the comment! ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
Great research and info. I learned so much about Bucharest that I didn't know and I live in Romania. Thanks for a great, informative video.
Your comment has made our day! Thank you. ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
Υπέροχο σέ ευχαριστώ ❤ είναι αγάπη με πρώτη ματιά 😂
Δυστυχώς χωρίς χρήματα για να βελτίωση ❤
Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ για το σχόλιό σας!
Thanks so much for the recommendation in the video & the link in the description - awfully kind of you & very much appreciated. Really pleased to see you in Romania & great to see Bucharest again - so many cool places and interesting sights. Did that chunk of gold fall out of Will’s pocket? You guys always sniff out the best markets! Happy that you enjoyed your time in Romania! Laughed at the outro 😂
It's our pleasure! We hope to all least be in the top 5 of your biggest fans. And you always do a great job with diving into the history of a place. We do our homework, and you still teach us a lot.
❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴 Don't worry about where that gold went!! 🤣😂🤣
The fact that I've found out many new things about Bucharest from this video while living in it😂😂
That is so cool! Thank you for the comment. ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Nice shirt 😀 Greetings from Poland
Thanks! 😃 ❤️🇵🇱❤️🇵🇱
Very nice and unique building in Romania
Thank you for the comment! ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
I was not expecting a Michael Jackson monument! That's a surprise!
He's the King of Pop in every country!
Michael means a lot to us Romanians especially to me!!!
Nice ,Thanks !!
Thank you too!
Yayyyy, hopefully we can join you on a bowling date in Cancun next year 🤗🥰 Gread video friends 👏👏👏
Definitely!! Thanks friends!! ❤❤
Congrats on the 25th country, incredible country and I got confused back then with the Lei... I took euros, that was a newbie mistake haha. Great to know they have Uber/Bolt now. Some stunning sites over there, good tips and beautiful drone shots! 18:01 love the wall art of Frida Khalo. 1 hour of Bowling for only 10 dollars? Wow, that's a good one for Wednesday morning!
Simple rookie mistake! Thanks we're really racking up the countries now. We loved the Frida art as well. Drone had some fun time flying in Romania, for sure. Bowling on a Wednesday morning needs to happen again. Thanks Ale and congrats on 10K! Keep Climbing!
@@WITYTRAVELS thank you guys! :)
Romanian army lost 1/2 million people in WWI , plus civilians , Arcul de triumf is dedicated to that !
Thanks for the info! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
I like! România is my country and București is my town. Good luck!😍
Thank you so much! We love Romania ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
Thank you so much! We love Romania ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
@@WITYTRAVELS 🤗👍
Thank you. It was a surprise this video. I like my 🇷🇴 +❤ = în 01.12 =our national day. Good health! Good luck! 😍
It is so nice to be PEOUD of ipor COUNTRY. Bravo!
That chain of fountains if you stay in the week end from 21 to 22 will give you an amazing show with lights and colours & water with biggg splashes that dances on the music is magical . In the summer from june till august you can see that amazing show, just 4 countrys in the world gives you a show like that so it' s special. ❤
Thanks for the information. We love fountain shows. ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
@@WITYTRAVELSif you ask a quard from there they will tell you or anyone passing that area that is from Bucharest, they don' t mind.
You can pay with credit card also at the subway entrance , like on the bus...
Thanks for the info! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Oh my gosh!!! So much useful information in this vlog!! It’s amazing seeing all the overlap of culture across Europe!! Romania looks like a combination of a lot of European countries we have visited. The peacocks are neat!! We remember seeing peacocks in Prague! Yum to the cinnamon rolls!! It wouldn’t be a wity travels video without a market stop!!! Bowling?? How fun!!!! Katy on the ending 😂😂😂
Yea, Romania is pretty amazing. More people should come here. Especially before it joins the Schengen Zone and counts towards your 90 days. We've seen a lot of peacocks in Romania. We need to make it to Prague one day! The cinnamon rolls were yummy. Always gotta find the markets. Bowling was great. And so affordable! Thanks!!
Don't worry, Romania will not reach the Schengen zone, some countries in Europe would loose too much economically, would be as when Great Britain lost them colonies.
Thank you for visiting and showcasing our country. I hope you had a good time in Bucharest.
Have fun and be safe in your next adventures.
Thank you! Will do! We really enjoyed Bucharest. Thank you so much for the comment!! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
You missed in King Michael Park ( Herăstrău ) village museum , in was on that alee , M.j alee❤. But i hope next time you will visit. It' s a museum outside and with translation in english and you can see traditional houses , tools etc from all over România true diferent periods of time❤
We actually tried to go, but the attendant there was unfortunately very rude to us. 😔So we just skipped it.
@@WITYTRAVELS So sorry about that. Oh my God i live very close to Herastrau Park and i go with my kid almost every day. I will say to them some words. Shame on them.
Very nice city
It really is! Thanks friend!
Welcome to our country❤thank you for the video❤
Thank you for your lovely comments. We really appreciate it! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
I thought it said "Katy will (something)" and I was waiting patiently for what Katy will do, then it hit me after a few seconds =))
That's hilarious!!
Yes, that arch does look like the arc d triomphe! I thought the same thing😉
Especially with the round about traffic surrounding it. Next time we'll have to climb to the top!
Actually, it is a French replica. Is like the one in Paris, but a little bit smaller. The Bucharest used to be called "Little Paris"
With 3 lei you can travel for 90 minutes. That's why it would be ok to buy a STB travel card :) All you have to do on the next bus/tram, etc., is to bring the card closer to the reader and it will say "validated card, change from line x to line y"
Thanks for the advice! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Where I live in Sweden, you can travel for less time on a ticket that's way more expensive. One simple ticket
for an adult in my parts is over 17 LEU and that's for travel within one "zone". Only real improvement is that they
merged allot of zones together (previously it almost looked like a map of pre-unification Germany🤣 ).
OMG - this video starts out on 1 May Blvd.. right near my best friend Sam's house on Dr. Felix street!
That's awesome! Thanks for the comment. ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
25th country y'all are exploring and no mo' sugar coating 🙏🏻. Wow that Arch of Triumph, the one in France and The India'Gate war memorial in Delhi have lots of similarities. At least that one and the one in Paris you can go under but not the one in Delhi. Good thing showing the cool Romanian currency 💵. Moon 🌝 walking MJ style. Keep enjoying the ride through life 😎🙏🏻.
Love seeing the arches in different countries! Glad we could go under it and if we go back we'll climb to the top. That currency is super cool! Living our dream life! ❤🇷🇴
Well nice because I am from Bucharest ❤❤❤
You are from an amazing city! ❤️🇷🇴
@@WITYTRAVELS that’s right I was born în Ploiesti I think maybe you heard about Buftea Studios and from October 2004 I moved to Bucharest city ❤️😁 that’s an expensive city and a lot of traffic but I am glad you enjoyed the trip to Romania 🇷🇴
Very nice👍
Cheers! Thanks for the comment! ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
Bran is related to Vlad Tepes. He stayed there with his border garrison while employed in the Hungarian Army then when he retreated from Wallachia before he was imprisoned by Corvin.
Not sure if you knew but Vlad built Curtea Veche as his residence and it's in the Old Town.
Thanks for the clarification! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Cute outro! I love Katy's giggle 😂
Thanks! 😄
Welcome to Romania!
Thank you! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Hope you have/had a pleasant stay! It was a very enjoyable video, and you guys covered things I haven’t seen many others do - like the National Bank tour or actually getting close to the Arch of Triumph. I will have to book my own tour next time I am in the capital. After all, not many chances to get my hands on a solid bar of gold 😂
Also hope you didn’t starve while you were here; we don't really do vegetarian. Oops!
hope we will be able to visit the capital as well, so far we just explore the amazing nature you have 😍
Thanks so much! 😊 We really try to check out things that not everyone does. Lifting the gold was awesome. We had plenty of good vegetarian food. And yummy Papanași! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Old building ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I remember that meme with the cinnamon rolls it goes: "that is not the right way to eat cinnannimminnmi rolls" 😆
😂😂
Beautiful vlog 😊
Thank you 😊 ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Welcome❤💛💙
Thank you for the warm welcome! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
One comment: I saw some drone footage. Please bear in mind that within Bucharest city limits you have to get permision from Air Force command in order to fly a drone. 😉
Yeah we have a mini drone, that you don’t need permission because of its size. Thanks for the tip.
cand nu merge semaforul, in Romania pietonul are prioritate !
Mai bine să fii în siguranță decât să-ți pară rău! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Every one that visits wants cabbage rolls but the best sarmale are the ones with grape vine leaves. ;)
Wrong! The cabbage taste fried in the oven is unbeatable.
Thank you for your comment! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
SARMALUTELE SINT AMINDOUA BUNE,CELE FACUTE CU VARZA SINT MINCAREA TRADITIONALA DE CRACIUN,CELE IN FOI DE VITA SINT INSPRE VARA DAR FOILE DE VITA TREBUIE SA LE IEI INAINTE DE A FI SUFLATE CU VERDERAME.TRAIASCA TARA NOASTRA .👵🌺🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴❤❤❤❤❤
if you really want to try veggie sarmale, you only have to wait for about a month. Christmas is coming, and it's traditional to fast before it, so chances are pretty high you'll get a taste of romanian vegan food. It's nothing special though, don't get your hopes up - lots of beans, mushrooms and preserved vegetables. For example, the sarmale would be made with onion (or leek), mushroom, rice and tomato paste
Thank you for the info! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Will you visit other cities or you already left Romania?
There are more Romanian videos to come!
@@WITYTRAVELS Nice, I hope you will enjoy my country!
Thank you! ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
Lewandowski& Mbappe Jersey...I guess Will truely understand whats THE REAL: FOOTBALL!! :) Romania here.
You already KNOW! Thanks for the comment.
Welcome and thank you guys! Read the comments, the Romanians are friendly and they'll give you good tips.
Thanks for your comment! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
A small observation about the public transport in Bucharest actually is 3 lei for 90 minutes of using any surface public transport regarding of type or route/routes you travel during this time :D Cheers!
Thanks you for your comment! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
So this is why the pos may not have worked if you jumped busses or trams within that 90 minutes they will not take your money again if you pay with the same card
When you said "vegetarian cabbage rolls" it made me laugh. In Romania pork is considered to be the main vegetable in almost any menu :) Don't think is a friendly country to vegans, sadly.
We still ate well in Romania. No worries. ❤🇷🇴
Hi
they are asking for passport to cut the tickt in romania for example timişoara.
thanks
Thanks for the info! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
loved this video, it was fun and a little silly! Great that knowing Spanish helps in understanding (I agree!). Don't take up bowling professionally please! LOL
Thank you! 😃 We had fun in Romania. Come on, we're great bowlers! 😂
The House of Parliament was called back in the Ceaușescu time, the House of People, because the romanians builded. The House of Parliament was designed by a woman! You should check her out
Wrong! I worked there, all the documents was containing the name "Casa Republicii". In the first days after the 22 December the tv started calling "Casa poporului" in terms of teling everyone that's all people house or to make looking Ceausescu a hypocrite.
Thanks for the comment! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
hey welcome and enjoy your stay here, I hope you will try eventually some traditional food, im really curious what you think :)
Hey there! Thanks for commenting. We tried some Romanian food in our second video that is now out. ❤🇷🇴
You got to touch a gold bar?! Cool! 💰
It was awesome!
Alhamdullila
Thank you for watching! ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
Romania 🇷🇴🇪🇺🌍✝️🙏🍾🥂😘😊❤️
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Pretty money! I love colourful money! 🤑
When we saw the bills, we had to include them. So pretty!
It's also water-resistant. I used to take my money with me when taking a dip into the sea :)
@@lucianene7741 that's awesome!
Once you get to the ourskirts of bucharest you'll only find old trams and white old citaros, trust me, those are NOT comfortable
Thanks for the comment.
Dute bă la cimitir. Peste tot în lume , sunt lucruri și bune și rele. O altă țară, o altă cultură.
How much you need to be considered rich in romania?
Not sure...
Visit Oradea, it is the most beautiful city in Romania
Thanks for the recommendation! ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
making/selling/eating vegetarian cabbage rolls is illegal in romania. punishable with 10 to 15 years in prison. some people ate those and they died or even worse, they ended up in a hospital
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@@WITYTRAVELSit' s a joke, just a joke , in our ortodox religion we fast 40 days , so if we fast we eat also cabagge rolls with rice & mushrooms , but we prefer the ones with meat for sure. This men just make a joke. Still my mother before Christmas does cabage rolls with rice & musgrooms , they are good , and you will find those in marcket only when we fast in those 40 days or you can make them in your home. You will find the recipe on you tube. Cabage rolls with rice or in romanian :" Sarmale umplute cu orez și ciuperci. ❤❤❤
@@clarakam3858 Thanks! ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
If you are vegetarion, you are really missing out on the Romanian food guys!
Feel sorry for you!
Don't cry too much!
Here you will find the biggest number of churches and pharmacies in one place.😂
Thank you so much! We love Romania ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
Your Girl' buddy Face Look Indian Realy 😂
20%??? are you crazy??
bruh, 10% is really good tip in Romania, 12% is absolute max , don't ruin the market with bigger tips :)
Fair enough.
Our money are made of plastic. 🤷♀️😂
my man, there's no "vegetable cabbage rolls" over here,we don't drink soy milk
ok
The lei are made of plastic. You can forget it in your pockets and safely put them in the washing machine. Literally do money laundering 😄
That's hilarious!
@@WITYTRAVELS Before 2000 we had paper money. But the constant circulation between people, made the bills ripped, distroyed, bended and very sensitive in general. So, they made polymer bills, that are way more resistent. The first polymer one was the 2000 lei bill, that was released by the Romanian National Bank on the ocasion of the sun eclipse from 2000. Actually, the bill had the eclipse drawn on it and it was very colourfull. Back then, when you got a 2000 lei bill, you could consider yourself very lucky. You kept it and never use it on regular payments, but on special occasions.
Thanks for that info. Very interesting!
Brașov the most beautiful city of Romania !!! ♥️💛💙
Avem dubii boss
The entire country is beautiful not just Kronstadt(this is how you like to call that city,right?),stop being so fucking subjective!!!
The angry birds land.
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From the begining that was a lie!
București is not Romania!
Where is it then?
@@WITYTRAVELS București is in Romania, but it is not Romania.
Nea mean?
@@ericmario7 yea, we made videos from other parts too...
arunca tricoul cu polonia !
The Poland shirt?
@@WITYTRAVELS Yes, he said to throw away the Poland shirt, not sure what he has against Poland though :))
Ba esti PROST sau te PREFACI?
Be careful with your wallet. Today, you will have it,tomorrow, you don't
this tip is available in any country from this world...but Bucharest is safe ,Romania is a safe country ,just stay in crowded area ,close to downtown, don't go in ghettos...ALONE in the night (also this tip is available in all countries, not just here)
What a lousy comment without proper proof.
Your wallet can be stolen in any major city. I am more worried in Rome or Barcelona than I am in Bucharest.
And on the plus side, you don’t get shot randomly like in the US 😉
@@andreeairina2169 what is Rania ?
Romania is in the top 30 most safest countries in the world😁
We couldn't feel more safe in Romania. ❤️🇷🇴❤️🇷🇴
Bravo
Thank you! ❤🇷🇴❤🇷🇴
If you are a vegetarian, you are in the wrong country…
I think we can survive off of Papanași 😜
@@WITYTRAVELSno you are not. We have the fasting menu. Its all whitout meat or milk/eggs etc. So ask at the restaurant for "de post" or "fasting"
@@lectiidefrizeriecucraciund6045 thanks!
Try the Romanian spreadable food. Are vegetarian food.