Your guide will pick you from your accommodation in Cluj at 8:30 am and lead you first through a fabulous voyage into the wombs of the ancient salt mine of Turda*, the most beautiful salt mine in Romania. Used as an antiaircraft shelter during WWII, as a cheese maturation facility during the communist period and finally upgraded to Transylvania’s unique underground amusement park, Salina Turda still preserves millions of chisel and hammer marks, left as ‘salt signatures’ by the miners who once worked here. The visit of Turda Salt Mine will be an unforgettable experience in the heart of Transylvania. *It is not recommended to visit the salt mine if you have heart, lungs, digestive and other health conditions. You can check them all here.

Entering the Apuseni Mountains, you will discover Rimetea, a Hungarian village wonderfully preserved in harmony with nature. For centuries, Rimetea was famous throughout Transylvania for its iron mines and for the workmanship of its blacksmiths.

The next and last visit of the day will be that of the imperial military town inside Alba Iulia’s star-like shaped fortress. Though most impressive, the Vauban style Alba Carolina fortress is not the only attraction here to have interesting stories to tell: so do Alba Iulia’s ancient Roman ruins, the Hungarian royals’ tombs found in Transylvania’s oldest church or Romania’s most important political event of the last century, its union to Transylvania.

Back to Cluj in the evening, at the end of the best mini-tour of Transylvania.