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Romania Health Guide for Travelers: What You Need to Know Before You Go

Romania Health Guide for Travelers: What You Need to Know Before You Go

Romania is a great destination, from Transylvania's forested mountains, the monasteries of Bucovina, to the Danube Delta, but like any destination, it comes with health considerations worth understanding. Is Romania Safe to Visit (Health-Wise)? Y...

Dracula Was Real: Why Romania's Vampire Legend Draws Millions of Tourists Each Year

Dracula Was Real: Why Romania's Vampire Legend Draws Millions of Tourists Each Year

Romania has built an entire tourism industry around a myth that was invented in London, based loosely on a 15th-century warlord who almost certainly never left Transylvania. The stranger truth is that the reality behind the legend — the landscape, th...

Hungary Travel Guide: Hot Springs, Ruin Bars, Paprika, and the Most Underrated Capital in Europe

Hungary Travel Guide: Hot Springs, Ruin Bars, Paprika, and the Most Underrated Capital in Europe

Hungary sits in the Carpathian Basin at the geographic heart of Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. It is a landlocked country of 10 million people with a language related to nothing else in Europe,...

Moldova's Wine Country: Why Eastern Europe's Smallest Nation Has the World's Biggest Cellars

Moldova's Wine Country: Why Eastern Europe's Smallest Nation Has the World's Biggest Cellars

Moldova is a microstate tucked between Romania and Ukraine, rarely mentioned in travel conversations and frequently confused with other Eastern European countries. It also holds the world record for the largest wine cellar, hosts one of Europe's most...

The Odessa Catacombs: Ukraine's Vast Underground World

The Odessa Catacombs: Ukraine's Vast Underground World

Every great port city has its secrets. In Ukraine's largest Black Sea city, Odessa, the secrets are buried — literally. Beneath the limestone bluffs and wide boulevards of this famous city lies the largest catacomb network in the world: an estimated ...

How Many Languages Does China Actually Have — And Do People Speak English?

How Many Languages Does China Actually Have — And Do People Speak English?

When travelers say they want to "learn Chinese before visiting China," they're opening a door to one of the most linguistically complex countries on earth. China doesn't have one language — it has dozens, possibly hundreds, depending on how you count...