Transfagarasan Highway

Leaving Bucharest, I rented a car and drove the Transfagarasan Highway.  I think it's only about 60 miles, but you must drive slow with the elevation change and the hairpin turns, and I stopped for pictures several times along the way.  I saw five bears. (I have been to the Smoky Mountains many times - no bears.  I spent last summer hiking and camping in Washington - no bears.  Then I saw FIVE in Romania!!!). The landscape is beautiful, and I saw herds of sheep with their shepherds, and I saw people using horse carts for actual transportation - not just for a fun hayride.  There are many road side stands selling things such as pastries, cheese, and homemade wine.  At the end of the road, I stayed at a guesthouse in a small village, where I really did see the cows come home at the end of the day.  Like the saying - around 8 pm, there was a parade of cows on the main street as they left the pasture to go home to the barns.