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	Fur: Fur Tip Rating:

By ATLC on October 23, 2002

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by ATLC

I know it's a tricky subject but I must say: the fur on sale as coats and hats is simply incredible. Of course you wouldn't buy and one would certainly not be able to import it to their own country but still...... it is very very impressive.

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	open-air markets: Local craft Tip Rating:

By zaffaran on February 24, 2006

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by zaffaran

As I usually stop by local crafts, I did so in Romania and I got enchanted with colours and patterns i saw- my favourite stuff are traditional colours and patterns of carpets.

As you are buying -don't forget to haggle-the beginning price of the carpet I wanted to buy was 3600000 leu (approx.100 euro then) and it ended at 1200000 which was also touristy I think.

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	Sighisoara Tourist Shops: Shopping, Vampire Style Tip Rating:

Updated By Shockgirl on June 8, 2005

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Souvenirs inside the Dracula
Bar at Bran Castle

by Shockgirl

Yes it's a kitschy tourist trap, but you have to appreciate the variety of swords, wood-carved scary-masks and Dracula t-shirts the vendors at Bran Castle offer. Upstairs in the Dracula Club (I don't know if it's really called that) there's lots of weapon replicas, hand-painted stemware (which I don't think is local, but may be) and less traditional crafts, but these are higher priced.

This is a great place to buy keychains, t-shirts and small souvenirs to bring home for friends and family. You don't have to tell them your rich experience visiting a centuries-old fortress complete with an original village had nothing to do with Dracula.

The local crafts are inexpensive, but inside the bar the prices escalate considerably. But it's a different quality and type of souvenir.

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Address: Bran Castle

Directions: Bran

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	Superb souvenirs Tip Rating:

Updated By Fam_Stoica on July 20, 2006

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Suveniruri, Romania

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Handcraft items in Bran (Brasov county) near the castle.

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Directions: near the entrance of the Bran Castle

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	unusual souvenirs

By Tom1971 on March 25, 2005

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look around in rural areas for carved wooden objects and pottery, also wild boar skins make an unusual souvenir that can legally be taken out of the country.

A wild boar skin shouldn't be much more than €40 - 60

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	EVERYWHERE: GLASS

By catdockev on March 23, 2003

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Glass and porcelain is wonderful and very cheap! Be careful that what you bought is what is wrapped up for you! Also, seconds are often passed off as normal careful!

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	Been there, bought the tee-shirt

Updated By CliffClaven on August 11, 2003

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by CliffClaven

Don't laugh - there used to be a Dracula listed in the New York telephone book. He probably moved there because he wouldn't look out of place in a crowd of New Yorkers. Nowadays, Dracula tours are big business in Romania. They take you around the spooky Transylvanian countryside and show you castles supposedly associated with Vlad the Impaler, whose reputation makes poor Dracula quite angelic by comparison. If you are stuck for souvenirs to take home, they sell Dracula tee-shirts at Bucharest Airport.
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Theme: Children's Clothes

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	Prices

By dracul_wamphyri on November 15, 2005

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Brasov Town Square

by dracul_wamphyri

Prices are quite cheap in Romania, it's about £1 for 20 cigarettes, less than £2 for a bottle of wine and, the food is also excellent value. Imported goods, on the other hand, are not so cheap, expect to pay western prices for these. It also pays to haggle if you're buying from the markets.

Romanian wine is excellent, you must buy some!

Theme: Food and Drink

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	Bucovina Monasteries or Peasant Museum, Bucharest: Handcrafted Easter Eggs -- and more

Updated By PaulinSF on October 9, 2006

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by PaulinSF

The Gift Shop at the Peasant Museum in Bucharest has a lot of great things to bring back home: check out the handpainted folk tiles, and the genuine high quality (secondhand donated, I assume) folk costume articles.

Near the cash register is a big basket of intricately hand decorated Easter eggs in great designs (a bit more $ than at the painted monasteries - see below)

You can buy packages of a dozen intricately decorated Easter eggs (Ukranian-style) very reasonably at the gift shops at the painted monasteries in Bucovina. I think I paid 20 RON for a dozen, and considering the careful craftwork involved, these are little gems.

Pack them carefully, & you'll get them back home unbroken -- I brought back 18 of them without too much worry.

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	Street stalls: Romanian souvenirs

By hydronetta on June 26, 2007

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wanna buy?!?!?!

by hydronetta

I can't say I was thrilled with the variety and quality of souvenirs in Romania. This was a bit surprising for a country with such rich folklore. Wooden crafts (but unfortunately not in the artistic perfection found in Maramures), painted icons (if you like naive iconography this can be great), carpets, tableclothes etc. I wouldn't like to mention the Drakula parafrenalia which were all very kitsch!
The only exclusion was a young artist I found in Sighisoara whose woodcarving work was perfect but alas a bit expensive

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