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Now in its fourth year of operation the Bucharest City Tour sightseeing bus - much maligned when it first appeared - is more popular than ever and is without question one of the best ways to explore the city.Tickets for the buses are valid for 24 hours, allowing you to hop-on and hop-off as many times as you like throughout the day. You do, however, need to validate the tickets each time you board a bus. Tickets are priced at 25 lei for adults, 10 lei for children, and can be bought either on board, at RATB ticket kiosks or at selected hotels. In all there are 14 stops along the route (all are well signposted) and every one is directly outside or very close to a major sight. Leaving Casa Scanteii (officially now called Casa Presei Libere) the bus follows Soseaua Kiseleff, passing Herastrau Park and the Village Museum on the left, and Romania’s national rugby stadium on the right, before arriving at the Arc de Triumf. The Arc, which is due to be fully refurbished this year (and a pedestrian underpass built) is currently, alas, fenced off and not open to the public. From here the bus continues along Soseaua Kiseleff, passing some of the most expensive real estate in Bucharest. Most of the splendid houses on this street are now embassies. Pavel Kiseleff by the way, for whom the street is named, was a modernising Russian general who was the de facto governor of Bucharest and Wallachia in the 1830s. READ MORE...http://www.inyourpocket.com