Transfagarasan Highway Balea Lake and Carta Monastery from Brasov

Overview

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You will be taken from your hotel in Basov by a professional guide and you will go to the most spectacular road in Europe - Transfagarasan. We will stop first and visit the Carta Monastery built in the late Gothic style, by the Cistercian monks who came to Transylvania from Burgundy - France.

Transfagarasan Highway is the most spectacular and beautiful mountain road in Europe, enough to feature on the UK motor show Top Gear, Transfagarasan Highway might just be “the best road in the world” as Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson claimed.

It's a road going up in the mountains and unites Transylvania with Valachia. Great scenes, noisy waterfalls, Glaciar Balea lake, will make you feel great up there and forget about the stress of the city.

During the winter, between the months of November and July, we will go up by van to the hotel Balea Cascada 1446, from where we will take the cable car (from here up the road is closed due to snow). The price of the cable car is not included .

Additional Info

Public transportation options are available nearby

Specialized infant seats are available

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Between November 1st and July 1st, after 1460 the road is closed, here at Hotel Balea Cascada we will climb our car and then we will take the cable car to Lake Balea. The tickets from the cable car are not included in the ticket price. Cost of about 12 euros up and down

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What‘s Included

Professional guide

Transport with luxury van mercedes or similar cars

Pickup and drop-off at your hotel from Brasov

Lunch

Tickets at the cable car (20euro round trip) ( November 1th to July 1th))

Entrance fee at the Monastery

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

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What To Expect

Transfagarasan Highway

It is the most spectacular and beautiful mountain road in Europe, enough to feature on the UK motor show Top Gear, Transfagarasan Highway might just be “the best road in the world” as Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson claimed. It's a road going up in the mountains and unites Transylvania with Valachia. Great scenes, noisy waterfalls, Glaciar Balea lake, will make you feel great up there and forget about the stress of the city

2 hours • Admission Included

Le Lac Balea

It is a glacial glacial lake situated at an altitude of 2034 m in the Fagaras mountain .Surrounded by mountains offers a miraculous view around it .It has a maximum depth of 11 m and its peels can be seen, how to swim trout.In winter, near the lake, you are building the ice hotel, an ice church and an igloo. we can visit them and try rooms and cool ice beds.

2 hours • Admission Not Included

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Transfagarasan Highway Balea Lake and Carta Monastery from Brasov

Pickup included

Reviews

4.89

19 reviews

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

Must do!! Incredible!
Patrick K,
Aug 4, 2025
- Viator
5.00
Such an incredible experience! Way better experience than if we would have journeyed ourselves. We enjoyed the road, a short hike, the monastery, and got tons of incredible pictures! It was also great to just relax with my wife while our guide navigated the traffic.
Tour to Transfagarasan road
Elena S,
Jul 3, 2025
- Viator
5.00
The trip on Transfagarasan road to the glacial lake was absolutely amazing! Our tour guide Viorel was great, very friendly, knowledgeable and one of a kind driver. He did everything to make our day the most enjoyable and memorable. We would highly recommend Viorel and this tour.
Excellent transfagarasan tour experience
MARIA P,
May 4, 2025
- Viator
5.00
it was a great experience, great explanations, excellent tour, very complete, everything on time, we really enjoyed it
Lovely day!
Amanda S,
Nov 6, 2024
- Viator
5.00
Our guide Claudiu is very knowledgeable and gave great information and time with options of activities at stops. He provided a prompt and safe drive up and down the mountain. He even gave a recommendation for dinner near where we stay. It was a great day and recommend those who can to see these sights. The pictures just don't do it justice.
A Good Day Out
Nicklas C,
Feb 23, 2024
- Viator
5.00
A really enjoyable day out. Trian was very knowledgeable - precise heights of mountains, dates, names, etc, all came tripping off memory. This being winter, the tour was not the full length of the highway and I knew that would be the case before we set out. I had expected we would be able to do more of the highway before moving into a cable car, but that was my mistake, so no stars deducted for that. But just as a note to others keen for the drive - book in summer! Still worth the day out, though, and I have some amazing snowy mountain photos. Strangely, I really enjoyed wandering into the road tunnel at the top of the mountain on foot, when the road is completely hidden under a snow drift. Bizarre juxtaposition of worlds.