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Some more photos from around Bran castle in Translyvania, Romania.

There is a beautiful view from Bran castle across the Transylvanian landscape.

I visited the inside of Bran’s castle. It is a fairly sparse environment, nothing special and certainly not somewhere you would desperately want to live in.

Bran’s castle is the location the Transylvanian locals pimp as the castle of Count Dracula. The actual castle that many believe to be the castle of Dracula is Poenari, the ruins of the castle of Vlad the Impaler who was the inspiration for the Count Dracula story. However Poenari is not actually in Transylvania at all, it’s over the Carpathian mountains via what is apparently a very rough road, so I never visited it. Instead of visited the locals like to market as the Dracula castle and which does look like something that Dracula would have lived in.

I visited Peleș Castle, an incredibly beautiful castle in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania. It is on the route linking Transylvania and Wallachia. Interestingly, it was the first castle to be built with central heating pre-installed. Unfortunately I wasn’t allowed to take photos of the stunning interior, so I only have exterior shots of the building, but suffice to say that no expense was spared on the interior of this thing. It is truly spectacular and well worth visiting if you are ever in the area.