Wildlife holiday in Romania
| country: | Romania |
| location: | Danube Delta |
| departures: | This trip can be tailored to individual requirements with flexibility on dates |
| price: | From £1010 (5 days) excluding flights. |
| more info: | Price includes donations to Climate Care and The Travel Foundation. Price depends on exchange rate. |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
introduction to Wildlife holiday in Romania
You drive from Bucharest to the Danube Delta, leaving the car there and taking the ferry to Crisan village in the heart of the Delta. You will explore the creeks and reed beds with an ornithologist , spending two nights in the Delta and seeing a truly wonderful range of birdlife. You will see how floating islands have developed and the full range of habitats.
On the way back to Bucharest you will have the opportunity to spot many more species of birds including bee-eaters, marsh harriers and godwits..... After overnight in Bucharest you may explore Bucharest on your last morning before transfer to the airport.
Accommodation, breakfasts & dinners, and entry to listed attractions included. This tour is by car, ferry and small boat, with an English speaking guide. The costs will be significantly reduced for a group traveling by minibus. We strongly recommend that you couple this with a visit to the painted monasteries of Bucovina and/or to explore the massifs of Bucegi and Piatra Craiului, part of the South-Eastern Carpathians looking for signs of bears, wolves, lynx, red deer, wild boar in forest and mountain tracks. This also provides the opportunity to visit the World heritage Sites of Transylvania.
Contact us to develop an itinerary to your interests.
On the way back to Bucharest you will have the opportunity to spot many more species of birds including bee-eaters, marsh harriers and godwits..... After overnight in Bucharest you may explore Bucharest on your last morning before transfer to the airport.
Accommodation, breakfasts & dinners, and entry to listed attractions included. This tour is by car, ferry and small boat, with an English speaking guide. The costs will be significantly reduced for a group traveling by minibus. We strongly recommend that you couple this with a visit to the painted monasteries of Bucovina and/or to explore the massifs of Bucegi and Piatra Craiului, part of the South-Eastern Carpathians looking for signs of bears, wolves, lynx, red deer, wild boar in forest and mountain tracks. This also provides the opportunity to visit the World heritage Sites of Transylvania.
Contact us to develop an itinerary to your interests.
day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1: | Arrivalt. You will be picked up and transferred to the comfortable Residence Hotel Arc de Triomphe in Bucharest. If you have time we can arrange a tour or point you to the main attractions in Bucharest. |
| Day 2 | Towards the Danube Delta. Today we leave Bucharest heading for Tulcea , where we take the ferry to the village of Crisan in the heart of the Delta. Along the way you will have great views of the wild wetlands dotted with picturesque fishing villages. You will also get a first insight of the huge variety of the birdlife here: great white and little egrets, pygmy cormorants, flights of pelicans; hoopoes, white-winged black terns and sometimes even the impressive white-tailed eagle. After arriving at our guesthouse in Crisan village we may take a short walk through some typical Delta landscapes - small lakes and large reed bed areas. It is a good area for different waders: glossy ibis, black-tailed godwit, black-winged stilt, as well as rollers, marsh harrier, ferruginous duck and many more. The dust on the road can also register wild-boar footprints eagle.. |
| Day 3: | Exploring the Delta. We head off by boat, entering the Magearu channel and making way towards Letea village. These small channels are amongst the best places in the Delta for bird watching, crossing small lakes, backwaters, floating and wooded islands etc. Red-footed falcon and hobby are here as well as woodpeckers (green and black); little bittern; grey, purple, night and squacco heron; spoonbill and egrets; grasshopper, and river, great reed and many other warblers. After about three hours we will reach Letea, a charming small village with Ukrainian inhabitants and thatched-roofed houses. We travel by tractor, specially converted for visitors to Letea forest, one of the oldest reservations with an impressive virgin forest, including some trees more than 500 years old. After walking through some of the best of this forest we return by tractor to Letea and from there, exploring some other channels, back to Crisan.. |
| Day 4: | Terrestrial species. We take the ferry back to Tulcea, from where we drive to Enisala, close to an old Turkish village, with an ancient fortress on top of a hill. Here there are many different habitats: forested slopes, bare limestone rock, bushy scrub, overlooking a vast area of reed beds. Close to the road side there is a large colony of bee-eaters. Exploring different areas you may see highlights such as: levant sparrowhawk, honey and long-legged buzzard, booted, imperial or lesser spotted eagle; calandra lark; tawny pipit; black-headed bunting to mention a few. We then drive through Dobrogea and the flat plains of Wallachia to Bucharest. Overnight accommodation at the Residence Hotel. |
| Day 5: | Bucharest. In the morning you will have a tour of Bucharest by car before transfer to the airport for the flight back home. The tour can be taken on the first day, depending on flights. |
how this holiday makes a difference
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We are committed to playing our part through caring for the places and communities that we visit. We will continue to work with our suppliers to deliver a responsible product and quality performance.
We are helping to minimise the effects of emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases on the global climate from the transport that we use (aircraft, buses, trains, cars 7 hotels) by contributing to Carbon Offsets Ltd (wwwcarbon-offsets.com).This contribution is equivalent to some £1.50 per customer and will be invested, for example, in renewable energy schemes in less developed countries. We will continue to do this until governments bring in alternative ways in which to address the climate change impact of transport. We are contributing 50p per customer to The Travel Foundation– a British based charity that is implementing tourism projects and practice around the world to deliver long term caring. We will contribute also £1 per customer to a community project in Romania. Our customers are asked to make suggestions, based on what they see in Romania, about suitable projects to support. |
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