So,
What does Transylvania actually look like?
Look Below -- if you dare!
Peles Castle, Sinaia
Perceived Vampire Threat: Medium
Actual Vampire Threat: High
Mountains outside of Predeal
Perceived Vampire Threat: Low
Actual Vampire Threat: High
Castle Bran, advertised as "Dracula's Castle," although historians uniformly agree that Vlad the Impaler only visited this castle once, and that was to attack the castle.
Perceived Vampire Threat: High
Actual Vampire Threat: High to Very High
Shack near Bran Castle
Perceived Vampire Threat: High
Actual Vampire Threat: Off-scale High
Bar just outside Bran Castle
Perceived Vampire Threat: Low
Actual Vampire Threat: Negligble
Town and Hills outside of Bran
Perceived Vampire Threat: Medium
Actual Vampire Threat: High
Scary Tree near Fundata
Perceived Vampire Threat: Extreme
Actual Vampire Threat: Low (like a vampire would hang out next to a tree that screams "vampires!"
Hills and Farms around Fundata
Perceived Vampire Threat: Low
Actual Vampire Threat: High to Extremely High
Cave near Pestera
Perceived Vampire Threat: Extreme
Actual Vampire Threat: Extreme
Hills Between Fundata and Rasnov
Perceived Vampire Threat: Medium
Actual Vampire Threat: High to Very High
Teutonic Fort overlooking Rasnov
Perceived Vampire Threat: Low
Actual Vampire Threat: High
Birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, in Sighisoara
Perceived Vampire Threat: Very High
Actual Vampire Threat: Low to Negligble (the place is a restaurant and bar now, not the best locale for a vampire)
Nightclub in Sighisoara
Perceived Vampire Threat: Low
Actual Vampire Threat: Negligible (too cheesy even for the most desperate of vampires)
Fast Food Restaurant in Sighisoara
Perceived Vampire Threat: Low
Actual Vampire Threat: High
Hills near Borsec
Perceived Vampire Threat: High
Actual Vampire Threat: Medium (too obvious for most)
Lake Izvorul Muntelui
Perceived Vampire Threat: High
Actual Vampire Threat: Medium (on Transylvania's border with Moldova, so fewer vampires)
Ruined Castle outside of Targu Neamt
Perceived Vampire Threat: High
Actual Vampire Threat: Low
Cow outside of Dragomirna Monastery, outside of Suceava
Perceived Vampire Threat: Negligible
Actual Vampire Threat: Low to Negligible
Carpathian Forest near Ciumarna
Perceived Vampire Threat: Extreme
Actual Vampire Threat: Low (not in Transylvania, you see...)
Farms and Forest in the Carpathian Mountains near Campulung Moldovenesc
Perceived Vampire Threat: High
Actual Vampire Threat: Low (again, not in Transylvania)
Death is always near...
Perceived Vampire Threat: Extreme
Actual Vampire Threat: Low, but death from another means, Extreme threat
Farm near Borsa
Perceived Vampire Threat: High
Actual Vampire Threat: Very Low (in the Maramures, not Transylvania)
Transylvanian Forest
Perceived Vampire Threat: Extreme
Actual Vampire Threat: Extreme to Certain
Transflagarasan Highway, the pass over the Fagaras Mountains
Perceived Vampire Threat: Extreme
Actual Vampire Threat: Extreme to Certain, at least until you get above the clouds...
Castle Poienari -- Vald the Impaler's actual castle
Perceived Vampire Threat: Extreme
Actual Vampire Threat: Probably Low. The hike up to this castle was serious enough that there are probably not enough traffic to keep your average vampire sufficiently nourished.
Princely Tower, Targoviste
Perceived Vampire Threat: High
Actual Vampire Threat: Low (it's in Wallachia, not Transylvania)
Jennifer, on Bulevardul Unirii in Bucharest
Perceived Vampire Threat: Low
Actual Vampire Threat: Negligible to Extreme, depending on whether or not she had a vampire encounter earlier in the trip...
Bulevardul Unirii and the Palace of Parliment in Bucharest
Perceived Vampire Threat: Low
Actual Vampire Threat: Negligible (this was where Ceausescu hung out, not Vlad the Impaler -- although who was the eviler one is subject to some debate...)
