Country trip

Spent two weeks in March exploring a bit of Moldova and Romania. My trip started in Moldova, where I spent about 4 days in Chișinău. The city itself doesn't take too long to explore and I'd say 1,5 days are enough to check most of it.

After that, I went to Tiraspol. The trip to Transnistria was pretty smooth: I took a marshrutka from Chișinău to Tiraspol, which then stopped at the border between Moldova and Transnistria. There, they checked my passport and asked how long I would stay. Received a piece of paper that allowed to stay for 12hrs and, in Tiraspol, I exchanged some Moldovan lei for Transnistrian roubles and visited most of the places I had previously tagged (it's hard, even with a Moldovan eSIM, to get a proper connection once you pass the border, although there are places with WiFi). I took another marshrutka in the afternoon back to Chișinău.

My last trip in Moldova was to Orheiul Vechi. Just like the trip to Tiraspol, I went to the central bus station in Chișinău and took a "marshrutka" to the village of Butuceni. From there, it's a short walk to the top of the hill where the old Orthodox monastery is located - the views are incredible from there and worth the visit. Schedules to and from Orheiul Vechi can be found on their website.