NEW NEW NEW Ask for the detailed itinerary of the new HOMESTAY WALKING TOUR in Transylvania. Tour highlights: walking trails to medieval towns, history of fortified churches, meet and talk to the gypsies, evening to a sheppard camp and experience the process of cheese making, home bread making, optional cycling trails, ... and much more.
Although Transylvania, that lies north-east of Romania, is known as a weird destination after Dracula's myth, Romania is a rich country with beautiful landscapes, fauna and flora.
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... are just a few of all that you will discover traveling in our country.
It will be a pleasure for us to have you around and to be able to show the country and its secrets at its best, while spending the most relaxing holiday you ever had. That's where we are good at!
Crai is a male wolf, born in 1996 on a fur-farm in Romania. He came together with Poiana, a female wolf, to the Carpathian Large Carnivore Project (CLCP) when they were only about 16 days old. It was Christoph Promberger, the Project leader and initiator who wanted to have these two wolves. I came to the project as a student in 1996 and helped to hand raise to wolves who became very tame. Because of my background knowledge in veterinary medicine and animals specific dietry requirements Christoph asked me to take responsibility for the diet of both wolf puppies to ensure their good health during the first 4 months, this is the most critical period. I became
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donations welcomed to build for Wolf Crai the 20.000euro worth enclosure in the new sanctuary around Zarnesti
online donations will be available soon - check Peter's website for up-to-date details - or write us an email to keep you posted with the last news
One week hike in 4 of the Carpathian mountains: Fagaras Mountain with the highest peak - Moldoveanu Peak at 2544meters, Piatra Craiului National Park, Bucegi Mountains.
Experienced hikers only due to longer days - trails are not extremely tehnical but long - the longest is ~11hours for a normal hiker.
Extraordinary views - see some photos bellow;
dormitory style mountain huts
all meals included
all transfers - starting from Sibiu - optional trip can start in Bucharest
Explore the beauty and the unicity of the villages and country side in Romania. Cycling trips or mountain biking trips on dirt/gravel roads or single paths for all difficulty levels with stops at major cultural sites.
A cycling trip
will allow you to cover a wider area, peddaling on secondary roads, admiring the locals doing their daily work out in the fields. The overnights are in different family run guesthouses or very small hotels, to get you closer to the people and their lifestyle. The routes are of medium easy / difficulty with not very steep or long hills, but over a roling landscape with a large diversity. Along the route there are several stops at fortified Saxon churches built starting with 12ve century to defend themselves against the migrating invaders from the south: turks and tartars.
Mountain biking
over the Carpathian Mountains and over the Transylvanian hills will open a new perspective of the area. There are very few marked trails in the forests, so the guided trips will follow cart roads, small/narrow paths, routes over the meadows covered with bloosom flowers. The stops at very nice family run gesthouses that offer good food and accommodation are a very good break allowing you to relax for the next day, around the same area on different rotes or just further to the next village. Luggage transfer is included for your convenience or peddaling light.
spend an evening in the coldest place in Romania - Ice Hotel Balea Lake.
Package includes:
Welcome Cocktail
+ 1 night at Ice Hotel with breakfast and festive dinner - altitude 2034meters
+ 1 night at Balea Lake Hut with half board - dinners, breakfast ... click for more details from 149Euro/person
We offer a full learn to horseride package, based at a very nice horse riding center, with authorized and experienced instructors.
Optional half day cultural visit to the best preserved medieval town - Sighisoara - continously inhabited by people from 12 century - also birthplace of Vlad Dracula the Impaler.
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Spend an afternoon in an observation hide into the Carpathian Mountains, watching bears or also wolves and linxs.
In Romania live about 60% of the bear population in Europe with a total number of more than 5.500 bears.
there are more than 80% chances (as the previous reports) that you will see bears in the wild; also you can see a lot of ohter birds
- no smoking alowed in the forested area
- not allowed to use parfumes or simmilar
- you have to keep quiet durring the whole visit
- do not forget your binoculars and photo camera