Apuseni Mountains

The Apuseni Mountains are a mountain range in Transylvania, Romania and a major tourist attraction of Romania, which belongs to the Western Carpathians, also called Occidentali in Romanian. The palm-shaped mountains have been erroded in time and they are the most fragmented mountain group of the Romanian Carpathians. They are crossed by corridors and depressions and gulfs. Their name translates from Romanian as Mountains of the sunset. The highest peak is Cucurbata Mare; Hungarian: Nagy-Bihar - 1849 metres, also called Bihor Peak. The Apuseni Mountains have about 400 caves.


Choose to travel to the Apuseni Mountains for your family holidays or to get rid of the dusty, noisy city during weekends. Enjoy the magnificent landscapes, the clean, crisp air and the quietness of mountain resorts. Go hiking. Discover the caves: there are more than 400 caves in the Apuseni Mountains. And in the evening, enjoy the tasty Romanian food and rest in the comfortable rooms of a Romanian village house or bed-and-breakfast (B&B) in touristic villages. Admire the popular costumes worn by inhabitants of the Ocolis-Salciua and Lupsa areas or in the entire area, during feasts and fairs. Buy souvenirs made by locals: simple, functional objects specific to the Tara Motilor region: horns, whistles, fabrics, breast-plates decorated with leather, metal tools adorned in various patterns. Visit the villages in the Apuseni Mountains such as the Arieseni commune, where the distance between houses is up to 60 square kilometers.


Besides enjoying the beauty of the Apuseni Mountains, you can also reap the benefits of treatments available due to the richness of natural treatment factors:

• mineral and thermo-mineral waters;
• lakes and therapeutic muds;
• medicinal plants;
• climatic factors (aerotherapy)
• aero-ionization.