The Szeklerland starts about 25 km north from Brasov. Szekler is Szekely in Hungarian and this land actually is populated by the Hungarian ethnic minority. Here they are the majority as over 80% of the land is populated by Hungarian Szeklers.
We had the famous "Kürtös kalács", the fresh ans hot home made bread, which came out right from the oven, and also you can get very cheap potatoes.
Visited the lake Maksa too.
2. At Zizin valley
Zizin (Zajzon) is famous for it's natural mineral water. This village is about 20 km east from Brasov. The village before it, Purcareni, at 16 km from Brasov, is the place where my father is buried. He used to live in that area. Actually is a group of 3 villages (Tarlungeni, Purcareni and Zizin). All these 3 villages have Romanian and Hungarian population. In some the Romanians in other the Hungarians are the majority. In fact this is not very important. What is important that after Zizin, it is another small village entirely populated by gispy people. Their number is in continous increase. The people from Zizin is speaking about the gipsy like a different village of different people. The gipsy would tell you that they are still part of the same Zizin village. Further to them is a very beautiful valley, and people go out there for weekends or holidays for a barbacue or even for a few days out. This part of nature hasn't been spoiled yet. 
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