Borgo or Tihuta Pass

This pass was made famous by Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. You will remember that the stagecoach was going over this pass from Transylvania to Bukovina and dropped Jonathon Harker off at the mouth of the pass to await the Count. All the riders in the trap begged Jonathon to continue with them over the pass and forget about meeting Count Dracula. This pass is in the Carpathians and connects the old Transylvanian Saxon town of Bistritz (Bistrita) to what is now the ski resort town of Vatra Dornei in the Romanian Bucovina. The pass is about 4000 feet high. Borgo is the Magyar name for the pass as Transylvania was Hungarian in Dracula's time.