BUCHAREST, Romania – A rescue official says an Israeli tourist has been killed in a fall in the Fagaras mountains in central Romania. Nicolae Plesita, head of the Curtea de Arges mountain rescue team, ...

As far as travelers are concerned, Romania tends to get resigned to three fates: ignored, considered unsafe, or stereotyped because of Transylvania's bloodthirsty 15th-century madman Vlad the Impaler.

The bison had all but been driven out of Europe by hunting and the destruction of its habitats - Copyright POOL/AFP/File Alexander Zemlianichenko The bison had all ...

The first time I laid eyes on the impressive rock formations called sfinxul and babele (Romanian for “the sphinx” and “the old women” ), I was on a visit home during a college vacation. As my father ...

Viktor Pinkhasov can’t stop smiling. He has just managed to escape Ukraine after hiking alone for five days across the Carpathian Mountains. “I want to go and be free, to live,” the 34-year-old told ...

Desperate searches are taking place for a Midland teenager missing in the mountains of Romania for more than a week. George Smyth, 18, vanished after asking for help as he hiked in the Bucegi ...