Participate along side with the locals at:

1. Prăgșor or Easter Chop

• In the largest town of Apuseni Mountains, Bistra,  there is a tradition that is observed for over 250 years.  The tradition starts on the  good Thursday, when young men of the village go to the forest and search for a sycamore and build from that wood  a chop which they will hang in the church yard. On good Friday, 12 unmarried young people named philanderer, will start organizing this event. They place some special pipes  for shootings similar to handmade fireworks. The philanderers beat the stump and shoot the fireworks up until Monday morning, meanwhile if the chop is stolen it must be ransomed from the thieves, and after that they must arrange the Easter Ball.

2. Girls-Fair on the Găina Mountain

• One unusual  holiday of the moți take place every year in Avram Iancu village from Apuseni Mountains. It’s called Girls-Fair and it is a traditional celebration older than 100 years which fame crossed country’s border. In the closest weekend to Saint Elijah Day – celebrated on 20 July- the moții climb the Love Mountain to celebrate and to participate at dance-competitions , gastronomy-competitions , at concerts and spectacles. In the old times the girls came to the fair to be courted by young men, and some even got married on the Găina Mountain Top. The legend says that once upon a time there was an empress that had a hen, and the hen layed golden-eggs. Every young person that went there to confess their love, received an golden egg. In reality the festival showed up due to the fact that people felt the need to communicate with one another, because their communities were scattered and isolated.

3. Saint Andrew or The Ghosts Night

• The legend says that on Saint Andrew’s Eve young ladies can find out who their weird is. On daytime every young lady prepares a salty-pretzel and in the evening time she eats only half of it, without drinking water. The other half she lays it underneath her pillow, and during night-time shell dream her weird -bringing her water. There are a lot of superstitions about Saint Andrew –it says that it is the ghost night and the love-charms night. On that evening the spirits came out in the world, the wolves talk humanly, while people protect themselves by means of charms and garlic.