Things to do
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Bucegi Sphinx
The cable car does not run in strong wind, so have a fallback plan. A day that looks settled in the valley can end at the bottom station.
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Babele
A group of mushroom shaped rocks near the Sphinx, cut by wind and frost out of conglomerate, beside the plateau's main hut and the junction of most of its paths. The cable car from the town reaches the plateau in about ten minutes, and the walk on to the Sphinx takes another five.
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Cantacuzino Castle
A neo-Romanian house of 1911 built for Prince Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, with a terrace looking straight at the Bucegi wall and a park of grottoes and springs below it. It has been used as a filming location often enough to be recognisable.
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Caraiman Heroes Cross
A steel cross twenty eight metres high on a seven metre base, standing at 2,291 metres on the Caraiman peak, raised in the late 1920s for the dead of the First World War and lit at night. It is visible from the valley and it is a long walk up.
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Omu Peak
If you want food or a bed at the summit, go at a weekend in high summer. The hut there, the highest building in the country, opens only then.
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Urlătoarea Waterfall
A waterfall about fifteen metres high in the forest south of the town, reached on an easy marked path of about forty minutes. The name means the one that howls. The path leaves the Bușteni road at the southern edge of town, and the water is heaviest in May as the snow above goes.
