Itinerary

Day 1

ROUTING: BUCHAREST
- Upon arrival your private English-Speaking guide will pick you up from your location in Bucharest Airport and take you to your hotel in city centre
- Check in hotel
- Then enjoy a city tour including visits to People's House (built by Ceauºescu, the second biggest construction in the world, after the Pentagon), and The Peasant Museum.
- Dinner at Carul cu Bere (The Carriage with Beer) restaurant, one of Bucharest's historical restaurants
- Free time in town
- Overnight in Bucharest
ACCOMMODATION: CITY CENTRE HOTEL 3*
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Day 2

ROUTING: BUCHAREST - URLATI - SINAIA - BRASOV
- We leave Bucharest after breakfast and head for Urlaþi
- The vineyards here are well known for wines which perfectly accompany dishes prepared from game
- Feteascã Neagrã is one of the few original wines in our country, a red wine which recalls the taste and color of blackberries
- Visit the wine cellars and get all information about technology
- After a wine tasting of five different types of wines and barbeque lunch, accompanied with wine
- Then a drive through the beautiful Prahova Valley (wonderful scenery) to Sinaia in order to visit The Romanian Royal Castle (Peleº Palace), built on the demand of Carol of Hohenzollern : Sigmaringen, the first Romanian royalty
- In the afternoon we continue our way to Braºov town (Kronstadt, by the German name, one of the most beautiful Medieval Saxon Citadels)
- Upon arrival a city tour including visits to the Black Church (Biserica Neagra : the largest church between Vienna and Istanbul)
- Dinner in Braºov Medieval Citadel, accompanied by traditional dishes of this region.
- Overnight in Brasov
ACCOMMODATION: CITY CENTRE HOTEL 3*
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Day 3

ROUTING: BRASOV - SIGHISOARA - PIATRA NEAMT
- After breakfast we depart to Sighiºoara (the best preserved medieval fortress, still inhabited, where one can still feel something of the medieval atmosphere)
- Lunch in Dracula's birth house, now a cozy restaurant
- Then continue our way to Piatra Neamt with some stops to admire the beautiful Red Lake (Lacu Rosu) and Bicaz Gorges : the most spectacular gorges in Romania, with rock walls as high as 300m
- Dinner with traditional food of the region and with home made brandy and wine
- Overnight in Piatra-Neamt
ACCOMMODATION: PENSION 3*
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Day 4

ROUTING: VAMA - HUMOR - VORNET - VAMA
- After breakfast we leave towards Bucovina
- Visit Humor and Voronet monasteries, 2 of the 5 famous painted monasteries, the symbols of Romanian spirituality
- Transfer to Vama village, where we will go by foot to a sheepfold, where we can see the process of cheese making and taste all varieties
- In the evening we return to Vama for a traditional dinner
- Overnight in Vama
ACCOMMODATION: PENSION 3*
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Day 5

ROUTING: VAMA - COTNARI - TULCEA
- After breakfast we head for the most famous wine-growing region in Romania : Cotnari.
- Here the vineyards are over seven centuries old, dating from the time of Stephen the Great (1457 - 1504)
- The premium wine here is Grasã de Cotnari, another original Romanian wine, which even in the 15th century was known in many other parts of Europe
- Visit of the cellars, wine tasting and lunch
- In the afternoon we head for another region of Romania : Dobrogea
- Cross the river Danube by ferryboat and reach the town of Tulcea, the entrance gate into the Danube Delta
- Dinner with fish specialties
- Overnight in Tulcea.
ACCOMMODATION: HOTEL 3*
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Day 6

ROUTING: TULCEA
- Breakfast
- One day trip on Danube Delta - the second widest Delta in Europe, included in UNESCO's world heritage list, unique for its fauna and flora
- Lunch with fish specialties on board the boat.
- Dinner with fish specialties and wine from the local vineyard of Murfatlar and Niculiþel.
- Overnight in Tulcea.
ACCOMMODATION: HOTEL 3*
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Day 7

ROUTING: TULCEA - BUCHAREST
- After breakfast transfer to Bucharest and final good-bye from your guide
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Extra Information

Inclusions -

All local taxes

Exclusions -

Airfare - Gratuities - Extra charges of hotel, eg. Laundry, telephone or fax charges, room service, etc.. - Insurance

Extras -

There are many ways to get to know a culture, but few are as pleasurable as eating and drinking.

Romania is a country where traditions are still alive and where the way people in the countryside eat has not been influenced very much in the last hundreds of years.

We want to offer you a relaxing, fun and easy way to explore our exciting and vibrant country, through its inhabitants most loved way to spend their time: eating and drinking.

Wine and Gastronomy Tour of RomaniaWe can plan theme tours, including visits to small local producers or peasants houses, and even short cooking lessons. We suggest a guided tour of a sheepfold, where you can see the way the sheapards prepare the cheese (the same technology used by their ancestors) and also all of their food, a guided tour in a peasant's household to see them in action, and of course a guided tour in a wine cellar, to see the whole process of wine making.

Wine and Gastronomy Tour of RomaniaThe famous Sarmale with Mamaliga (a kind of polenta) and sour cream, tripe soup, Mititei (a kind of sausage), special cheese pie called Poale-n brâu - all these accompanied by Palinca (plum brandy) and traditional wine, make a specific, rich and delicious Romanian lunch.


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