Bucharest Travel Guide - Romania Travel Dest Guide

 Initial nu am postat nici un fel de explicatie referitor la acest articol, dar, intrucat articolul a fost dat drept exemplu negativ de un alt blogger, ma simt obligat sa fac mici precizari.

Am postat acest “Ghid” pentru a arata unor prieteni, cum este vazut Bucurestiul, si in General Romania, de unele ghiduri din vest. De mentionat ca este plin internetul de aceasta descriere, incepand de la Situl oficial al Beijingului: www.ebeijing.gov.cn/ying/t693487.htm  si terminand cu tot Yahoo Travel : http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-790621-bucharest_bucharest-i 

 Sa nu mai spun ca tot in acel ghid, turistii erau sfatuiti ca pentru o vizita in Romania sa ia cu ei un Ghid de conversatie, ATENTIE: “English - Hungarian”. Probabil ca aceste descrieri au si fost facute de vre-un englez de origine maghiara.

 In orice caz, descrierea se refera la realitatea anilor 95 - 2002. Probabil ca nu se sinchiseste nimeni sa caute informatii actualizate, si tot probabil ca din punctul lor de vedere nici nu este nevoie, dat fiind stabilitatea cu care sunt obisnuiti vesticii.

Acordati atentie si ultimei parti a articolului, unde se vorbeste despre populatie. Daca pana la acele paragrafe autorul putea fi banuit de obiectivism, la sfarsit reuseste sa-si dea bine de tot cu firma in cap, sau, cine stie, arama pe faţă.  Cititi si va minunati:

Bucharest Travell Guide - Romania Travel Destination Guide

BUCHAREST (Bucuresti), with a population of over two million, may be the largest city between Berlin and Athens, but not necessarily the most beautiful. At first sight the city is a chaotic jumble of traffic-choked streets, ugly concrete apartment blocks, grandiose Communist developments and brand new glass buildings of the new installed capitalism. Lying 64km from the Danube, Romania’s southern border, but 600km from its northern frontier, it’s also far removed from the country’s more obvious attractions. However, numerous atractions can be found in Bucharest, starting from nigt life and ending to a very developed cosmopolitan and cultural life. And yet, it’s Romania’s centre of government and commerce and site of its main airport, so most visitors to the country will find themselves passing through Bucharest at some point. Founded by the princes of Wallachia and dominated by their Turkish overlords, Bucharest only came into its own with Romanian independence in the late nineteenth century, when it was remodelled by French and French-trained architects. The city was dubbed the “Little Paaris” or “Paris of the East”, as much for its hectic and cosmopolitan social scene as for its architecture. The Romanian aristocracy was among the richest and most extravagant in Europe, but this lifestyle depended on the exploitation of the poor, and in Bucharest the two coexisted in what Ferdinand Lasalle described as “a savage hotchpotch”, with beggars waiting outside the best restaurants and appalling slums within a few steps of the elegant boulevards. Under Communism these extremes were reduced, but Capitalism has brought back conspicuous consumption and a new poor. The signs of Westernization are here now and a new prosperity, with glossy shops full of designer clothes and a rapidly expanding restaurant scene is showing up waiting for the tourist to enjoy. The architecture of the old city, with its cosmopolitan air, was notoriously scarred by Ceausescu’s redevelopment project, which demolished an immense swathe of the historic centre and replaced it with a concrete jungle, the Centru Civic , including a huge new palace for the Communist leader, now known as the Palace of Parliament . The palace has become one of the city’s prime tourist sites and is best viewed along the approach from Piata Unirii. The other site that can on its own justify a visit to the city lies to the north of the centre: the Village Museum , a wonderful collection of vernacular buildings collected from all regions of Romania. Between these two poles, in the centre of the city, the National History Museum lays out the story of Romania’s development from prehistoric times to the 1920s. It’s in much the same style as every other county museum, but this is the biggest and best in the country.

The heart of the city is the Piata Revolutiei , site of the old Royal Palace and the scene of Ceausescu’s downfall. It lies halfway along Bucharest’s historic north-south axis, the Calea Victoriei , which is still the main artery of city life. Buses heading north and south, however, use the unattractive boulevards east of Calea Victoriei; the main junction along them is the Piata Universitatii , scene of major events immediately after the 1989 revolution.The majority of sights are within walking distance of these two Piatas. Just to the south lies the historic centre of the city, with the remains of the original citadel . Beyond this, across the River Dâmbovita, is the contrasting cityscape of Ceausescu’s Centru Civic , with its centrepiece, the monstrous Palace of Parliament , now the city’s main tourist attraction. Just west of the centre are the Cismigiu Gardens , a tranquil space and a popular place for assignations. For a taste of the old atmosphere of the city, you need to wander north and west of the gardens past the vine-covered facades, to suburbs where life retains a village-like slowness and intimacy, or head north from Piata Revolutiei along Calea Victoriei to Herastrau Park , the site of a superb collection of buildings brought here from all over Romania and assembled to form an area known as the Village Museum .

Accommodation is more expensive in Bucharest than elsewhere, and you’re more likely to be hassled, hustled and overcharged. Though power and water cuts are now rare, many hotels are overheated in summer and freezing in winter, when snowdrifts grip the city and the temperature plunges to -20°F (-4°C). Unless Bucharest is your only destination, it’s as well to head for Transylvania or the coast as soon as possible. There are good train and road connections to the rest of the country, but local services to the towns and villages in the immediate vicinity are often limited or tortuous. However, there are some monasteries and mansions, notably at Snagov and Mogosoaia, which can be visited as day-trips

More than most European capitals, Bucharest is an insider’s city. Behind the congested arteries lies a tangle of backstreets where concrete is softened by abundant greenery and the inhabitants manage to rise above the bureaucratic obstructions and inadequacies of the city’s infrastructure. The people are a cosmopolitan mixture: Romanians, Gypsies, Turks, Arabs, Africans and Pakistanis, now joined by thousands of Chinese who add yet another layer to the thriving underworld of traficanti , prostitutes and beggars.

Yahoo precizeaza ca sursa pentru aceste articole pe Rough Guides , http://www.roughguides.com/website/shop/products/Romania.aspx

Eu recunosc ca nu am auzit niciodata de ghidurile acestea, in orice caz, la ei pe site vand un ghid despre romania, despre care spun ca “este atat de bun incat il folosesc pana si romanii” !.

Hm, sa moara ei ca e asa ? Ce putem spune : Tziganie occidentala.

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Tazmandev

Bucharest Travel Guide - Romania Travel Destination Guide