Travel Reference
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lei, 2½ hours, 12 daily) leave from a car park behind the bus station, dubbed 'Autogara In-
tertrans'.
Window 4 at the bus station sells international tickets. One daily bus theoretically
serves Chernivtsi in the Ukraine (35 lei, three hours), though if it doesn't have enough
passengers the bus may not even come from Chernivtsi. Alternatively, local tour operators
like AXA Travel can arrange car transfer (450 lei for up to four people).
One daily bus at 6.30am serves Chişinău (60 lei, seven to eight hours).
Train
Buses to the train stations stop east of Piaţa 22 Decembrie, across B-dul Ana Ipătescu.
Suceava's two train stations, Gara Suceava (aka Gara Burdujeni, Gara Sud or Gara
Principala) and Gara Nord (aka Gara Iţcani), are both roughly 5km north of the centre,
and easily reached by bus or maxitaxi (7 lei). The Agenţia de Voiaj CFR (
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sells advance tickets. Most trains originate or terminate at the Gara Suceava.
Train services include Gura Humorului (10 lei to 17 lei, 70 minutes, 10 daily) - disem-
bark at the Gura Humorului Oraş stop - Iaşi (39 lei, two hours, nine daily), three to Tim-
işoara (115 lei, 14 hours), four to Cluj-Napoca (71 lei, seven hours), one to Braşov (86 lei,
8½ hours) and Buchareşt (86 lei to 107 lei, seven hours, six daily). The old train route to
Moldoviţa via Vama was no longer running at the time of research.
Getting Around
The central bus stops at the eastern end of Piaţa 22 Decembrie; all buses to and from the
two train stations arrive and depart from here. Bus 2 runs between the centre and Gara
Suceava. To reach Gara Nord, take Bus 5.
Autonom
( 0748-295 660; suceava@ autonom.ro)
offers good car-hire rates.
Bucovina Monasteries
Southern Bucovina's historic monasteries are among the most distinctive in all Christen-
dom. Unusually, some have frescoes both outside and inside. While the region's prevail-
ing winds and rains mean that north-facing exterior walls have largely lost their five-
century-old paintings, frescoes facing other directions have survived - almost a miracle,
considering that the plaster is only 5mm thick on some of the most impressive paintings.
