The most underrated place in Romania!
all right the lovely Ivana putting her socks on because of the adventure that awaits just outside this big window so we love this apartment it's got a really nice view of both the historic Old Town in Pietra Nimitz as well as the orange cable car that is slowly moving across the mountainous Forest backdrop really for foreshadowing our adventure but first things first let's start off this Vlog right by potentially losing 10 000 Romanian subscribers okay yesterday for dinner Ivana made meech and mushroom soup that we ate with rice meech and mushroom stew served with rice thumbs up or thumbs down in the comments Romanians a lot of hits but it was good listen I will admit the flavor was good yeah but something about meech and rice it's a little bit like steak and eggs it's good but it's just just a bit off you know all right there you have it anyway guys uh we are super excited to go explore pieta and nymphs unfortunately this really nice apartment is uh fully booked tomorrow night because our first impression of pieta Nims was we should uh get some much needed editing done in this really nice apartment with the view here and extend our stay for a few days but we will be continuing the Romanian road trip tomorrow not complaining just saying yeah but uh with that let's get out the window here and let's uh start adventuring through this really beautiful looking City I think these might be communist era buildings all look the same in fact we might be in a communist air building right now but in the end I think the first stop is the historic Center City Center there which looks very inviting okay let's go all right so we've made it to the historic old town here in Pietra nimts which is quite a bit smaller than a lot of the historic old towns we've been to on our road trip but keep in mind that there are about a hundred thousand people living in Pietra nymphs so as far as small towns go it's a pretty small small town right now this Tower is called stuff in the great Tower built in the year 14.99 now one of the main tourist attractions in pieta nymphs is in fact an archeology Museum which I think is one of these buildings here because believe it or not Pietra Nims is the site of a prehistoric civilization we are talking thousands and thousands of years before Jesus now as far as archeology museums go Yvonne and I are going to skip this particular one because we find in prehistory everything sort of looks the same particular clay pots must be unique in some way and there is someone out there with a passion for prehistory it just isn't us so our main goal today is to take the cable car which you can see just beyond the tower here to the top of the hill it looks like it should provide a very good view up there and our assumption is you can probably get on the cable car at the bottom of the hill and then ride it up but believe it or not in our quest to go this way we're going to start by going this way because it looks like the cable car crosses the entire city so I think it seems like the more time we spend on the cable car the better because it should provide a view of the whole town going all the way across and then go up the hill yeah so in our quest to go this way we are going this way let the adventure begin see if we can figure out a way to get on this cable car looks really nice the orange cable car going across the city red it will car ivana's got the most interesting interpretation of colors the cable cover is clearly on let's go closer and see if it's right you're telling me it's red yes it's definitely orange red let's see let's see let's see if I know Ivana we will you're telling me oh you're telling me that's right you're right it's orange far away it looks red roof of the church is red it's orange you're right we got a backpack at home Ivana calls it the blue backpack and it's 100 green one's got her own definition of colors okay without further Ado we've made it to the starting point let's hop in this looks exciting man let's go let's go Steve oh my goodness thank you very much 30 late up and down hoping for a restaurant and top yes hopefully because I am Hungary maybe we can have some meech uh that are not stewed with rice it was good I was hoping I would close not bad iguana come on good right good oh Steve please a boat there there's some water legs there oh smile I'm trying look Mom no hands good really surprising to me that they built this across the whole town because it seems like the reason they built it is to get to the top of the hill so they could have just started it at the bottom of the hill uh we've been to Colombia South America where they use this kind of cable car as their Subway as their public transport is like this but in this instance I really think it's just uh uh a tourist attraction but maybe the best part might be this part here it's really convenient they build it across the city it's beautiful because the view is amazing and then we'll see what's at the top of the hill dude five star Gondola experience I love it yo good job you got to the NIMS this is fun okay that's fine it is a good tourist attraction yeah it's almost like it doesn't matter what's at the top of the hill it's already worth it go across the whole city it's a little bit scary but it's nice it's nice I mean you can see the view of the whole city we're surrounded by mountains it's really not scary Here Comes Zoom Zoom I was I have like a strap here or something everyone wasn't very sure you're almost there oh yeah goodness great success wow every time it Jiggles you want to screams it's a little scary we're very high up in the mountain we're actually at the very top look at this oh there's a ski hill over here is your left oh there's a scale okay okay get ready to go get ready to get ready let's go let's go let's go hold on hold on oh I think there's a restaurant up there I see it okay okay foreign but I think there's a ski hill here which would make Pietra Nims a 12-month travel destination not just now in the fall when the trees look really beautiful but it seems like there's a little bit of a chair lift happening over here as well as a little souvenir shops souvenir section dude we are living today vonna what a pleasant surprise without the gondola not much to do but the gondola opens all the possibilities wow this is the chairlift I was talking about yes dude good okay next stop eat yeah holy jump in I tell you what this is the type of view that will work up an appetite and I'm already hungry so check this out we are up here literally on top of the restaurant we will eventually go down here to eat but I didn't realize there's a whole nother section to pieta nymphs so the Viewpoint is maybe not quite a 360 degree view but at least a 260 degree view and every angle is really quite beautiful gorgeous man there's this whole other section we didn't see before which has a lake as well as a really beautiful football pitch nearly said soccer stadium nearly said soccer stadium um and so the cable car was absolutely worth it because the view up here is five stars amazing and uh Wow Let's eat I'm hungry I'm so hungry oh fantastic hello amazing sit here I'll Follow You Ivana you're the leader little roll leader but also the spiritual leader I just love the feeling come on can't beat it hello okay that's it let me be here Ken yeah no no for me Mitch no no meech oh no me sold out too popular No Mitch so No Mitch nice too pork pork stew like this yes like this okay okay and drink oh small okay okay okay Mercy all right so yesterday for dinner I had basically you made a Miche you I made it you made a combo accidental Fusion of flavors yeah we have never had takitara before so this will be our first time having it and I heard it's a traditional moldavian dish so you look so Romanian with your shirt oh my gosh all right welcome back to Toki Tora Tuesdays not exactly a stew sort of like pork egg polenta and cheese yeah it looks kind of like a breakfast like Canadian breakfast looks oh yeah it does doesn't it yeah very breakfasty now we are dealing with some copyrighted music in the background so we might have to make magic happen but I think it's okay let's try uh looks good manageable thank you oh thank you good bread yeah it is like a breakfast isn't it food looks like a breakfast sausages pork oh good enough these are burgers in there yeah good okay let's see all right final review of tokitura I tell you what I feel like I'm not going to eat for a month whew that was some heavy and greasy and oily and very tasty food now I will apologize for the music coming on this is a very common constraint of the traveling YouTuber we walked in the restaurant and where's the worst nightmare YouTuber's worst nightmare we walked in there it was totally silent the woman was very friendly we thought oh perfect place we order food in complete silence and then once the food comes the music comes on a bit of bad luck but still a very friendly lady and very good food I feel like talking to it is food for like hard labor like farming yeah farmers and peppers something like that because it's heavy my stomach is like time for a nap now time for the gym yeah maybe tomorrow really hike down hike down no no no no no you wouldn't want to disrespect the cable car Ivana now we told you guys about the archeology Museum which we skipped because archeology but we did find an ethnography Museum which looks interesting I know it's ethnography but it's got traditional costumes traditional hats and even traditional Romanian face mask oh for Christmas or New Year's looks interesting so come along with us as we journey towards the ethnography Museum providing we can walk oh my stomach man all right let's go oh my gosh you look like one happy lady oh my gosh she's a happy lady all right so beautiful drive to get here although this museum is really in the middle of nowhere we're in a tiny little village yeah it's so small I think we're lost but they're saying it's right here I think it's this one really you think you think I don't know there should be a sign but but nice drive it's a happy accident if we got lost maybe here Casa Popa oh right here that's right okay let's park and go I'm excited for this let's go right there foreign come on you can be with us I really feel like we are first visitor in museum history true right follow this Garden is so beautiful that's really special place and uh I would call this totem poles which seems very African to me but must be Romanian in some ways okay we got lots to learn Ivana wow nice there must be a story behind this let's go learn yeah yeah I'm excited I hope we find someone here it's so quiet yeah true I sort of feel like I'm in someone's property sneaking around beautiful oh nice place all right we got the information we were looking for so huge shout out to the guy we just met named Damien who is another son of the sculptor and of the painter and we learned all about these masks I am loving this information let's be clear five star let's be very clear six star Museum love this Museum yes so the idea is this everywhere on New Year's uh all the way back to pre-jesus the ancient dachian people would put these masks on and do these shows and they would sort of contain messages hidden in the shows so some of the earliest masks and costume performances were about uh the arrival of Christianity and Jesus coming and although the Christians came they wanted to integrate the previous religion and so uh you could imagine these shows on New Year's Eve uh integrating uh this new religion into this new area and then over 2000 years they kept doing these shows all the way through World War One there would be interesting messages in the shows World War II naturally during the Communist period maybe the messages would be less obvious because you know the regime might be after you and so what's incredible is this sculptor this uh folklore artist uh he was born in 1919. lived through World War II lived to the Communist Regime uh and so he was constantly changing the stories and being a real influential and driving force uh in the folklore that would be expressed every year on New Year's Eve now there are masks and costumes and other shows there's a Christmas show there's other things happening but the New Year's Eve one is where they would really uh transfer messages so some of them are quite funny uh Damien was telling us the story of one is uh this guy is going to sell his goats in the big city and so first things first the uh the motor vehicle bureau comes to him and says excuse me sir your goats are on the road they should have a license plate so he's got to bribe the cop and get that guy and then he's gold more than the doctor says you're gonna sell the goats I had to do a checkup and the farmer's like I know these goals are healthy to sell what are you and the guy's trying to do blood pressure on the goats and it's yeah they go dance so it's a story of uh the country people trying to uh follow the rules of the big city and being kind of you know comical about it uh really really beautiful Museum five star six star maybe it doesn't jump off the screen for video but I would really recommend this Museum especially if you're Romanian because I bet you a lot of Romanians might not know all the details that Damien just told us the interesting thing is this go on sorry one of my favorite story Damian told us was during New Year's that's when the people from this region believes that the sky opens up and that's where the spirit from the old people comes to Earth and watch over their relatives or give punishment to the bad people and that's why they have a lot of masks of old people so they wear this around the town and then after New Year's they burn The Mask to represent that the spirit has gone back up sure so the sky is opened up and they're doing these shows for their ancestors and then it's sort of finished yes uh really really great I absolutely love this Museum the interesting thing from the Canadian perspective is the people here like Romanian people are also like natives right because they were here long before right Jesus uh and actually the uh Popa was a bit of a archaeologist so he's got all this old school stuff but in Canada we've sort of lost native culture uh they would certainly be doing highly visual dances and stuff of this nature but because this Europeans came and sort of pushed the natives aside uh in Europe and in Romania the Romanian people are natives yeah as well as their modern people same people so in this way you can sort of see the I would call this like native culture like dachy and culture almost yeah whereas nowadays they're uh Christian population and they're not dressing like this in public but still once a year they do the show yeah the folk folklore folklore yeah stories oh this is a great museum I'm so glad we came here I really recommend it uh it might not look like much but the information Damian was telling us is really really special and uh this fella here was the one who was very prolific non-stop working Mr Popa Nikolai Popa I think his name is probably a self-portrait he was also a famous later he probably did it himself but you can imagine these masks uh conveying lots of messages on New Year's Eve dancing around and uh whether it's political struggle whether it's commentary and and comedic very interesting very good Museum you guys know every Museum I go to I say it's great but this museum is really great all right thanks for watching everybody get this fresh Apple oh thank you my hands are full thank you we can eat that too thank you thank you so much thank you good wow
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