Day two leads us back to base, revealing more scenic pleasures along the way, our horses never failing us in their long tramp home to a day of rest. Swapping four feet for four wheels, we visit the countryside immediately surrounding Sinca Noua. Medieval towns, citadels and sleepy hamlets create a scene of Transylvanian Saxon antiquity; none more so than the village of Viscri, with its restored guest house owned by HRH Prince Charles who, together with locally revered Count Kálkony has famously established a foundation to protect Romania's rural heritage. We drive on, heading further south to Transylvania's most celebrated landmark, the picturesque Bran Castle, which is tenuously linked to Bram Stoker's story of Dracula, even though the writer never visited Romania. If anything, the history and the setting are much more exciting than the fiction.