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“The New Experience Romania Self-guided Walk”

written by Gordonbz111 on 26/09/2015

The guided walks are clearly very successful. However be more careful if you undertake a self-guided walk. I have just been on one to the Carpathians in Romania. The good points were the attractive countryside; the welcome given us by the Romanians and their kindness; the challenging walks which are in places well waymarked; the pensions we stayed in. The bad side were the failure of New Experience to equip us initially with a suitable large scale map. Later it produced a 25,000 and we also managed to buy a 30,000 locally. New Experience had purchased the walking notes from a foreign company and the translation failed in many places due either weak translation, loss of sequence and loss of meaning. I cannot recommend this walk unless and until New Experience re-write the notes. I can however recommend contacting the owner of the Nea Marin Pension in Maruga (not far from Brasov) if you want to do some walking in those parts.
New Experience do offer better self-guide walks which I have done, but avoid this one.