Ideal for a summer or early autumn days, this program introduce you in the atmosphere of the south eastern part of Romania named Dobrogea – the gate to the magnificent UNESCO Biosphere Reservation which is the Danube Delta. It shows you after that some of the ancient antique monuments in the area.
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: The Niculitel basilica was built at the end of the 4th century during the rules of the emperors Valens-Valentinian the 2nd, according to a Christian Roman layout, with protruding semicircular apses, wide in comparison with its side, with rectangular nave divided in three by independent pillars which supported within the vertical space of the building a wooden two-sided roof, covered with burnt-earthen shingle.The ensemble of Niculitel is included in a protecting building having a planimetry which harmonizes with the shape of the paleo-Christian tomb. Its elegance and the uncrowned interior space create a pleasant atmosphere. The side gallery designed for the visitors ensures a permanent visual contact with the monument. The permanent exhibition of paleo-Christian objects, color photos and slides completes the visit of the whole paleo-Christian ensemble.
The Sarica Niculitel vineyard lies in the northern part of the Tulcea County. It is renowned for its red wines, whereas the white wine of Aligoté is considered to be the best of its kind in the country. It is a high quality wine, dry, strong and properly acidulated; it has a pleasant taste and a special bouquet. This region is one of the pearls of the Romanian wines where the climate is a factor determining the successful vine growing and high quality of the noble wines.
- Departure from Bucharest to Niculitel village
- Visit the basilique from Niculitel
- Optional, wine tasting and lunch at Niculitel vineyard
- Transfer Niculitel – Murighiol village
- Transfer Murighiol – Uzlina by motorboat
- Accommodation in Cormoran Hotel 3* in Uzlina
Day 2: Crisan village is the place from which fork the majority of the escapades in the Danube Delta. Being a fishing village of its origin, the Crisan village faced a quick development because of its privileged position on the most circulated channel, Sulina, frequented by both commercial and touristic ships.
Sulina is the only free port on the Danube, and is much used for the trans - shipment into seagoing vessels of grain which is brought down the river in large lighters from Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Austria-Hungary. No agricultural produce is grown in its neighborhood, owing to the reed-covered swamps with which it is surrounded.
Letea forest, that grows between the dunes under the shape of some bands with 10-250 m breadth, separated by the top of the dunes, is formed especially from: English Oak (Quercus robur, Q. pedunculiflora), White Poplar (Populus alba), Black Poplar (Populus nigra), Narrow-Leafed Ash (Fraxinus angustifolia, Fraxinus pallisae), Pyrus pyraster, Silver Lime (Tilia tomentosa), Elm tree (Ulmus foliacea) and rarely Common Alder (Alnus Glutinosa) and is completed by a rich scale of sub-shrub species (Crataegus monogyna, Ligustrum vulgare, Euonymus europaeus, Cornus mas, C. sanguinea, Rhamnus frangula, R. cathartic, Viburnum opulus, Berberis vulgaris, etc).
- Breakfast at Cormoran Hotel
- Boat trip: Crisan - Sulina - Letea Forest - Mila 23
- Optional lunch in traditional rural guest house
- Accommodation in Cormoran Hotel 3* in Uzlina
Day 3: Sfantu Gheorghe is a community of fishermen specialized in fishing sturgeon, which live only in the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Sfantu Gheorghe is the newest land of Europe, with its narrow streets covered with fine sand, a land emerged from the Black Sea's waves and the sediments carried by Danube no longer than 150 thousand years ago. A small village, with 300 families, keepers of many ancient traditions such as the Easter of deaths when all village goes to cemetery to "sit at the table" with the spirits of their ancestors.
- Breakfast at Cormoran Hotel
- Boat trips: Isac - Isacel - Sf. Gheorghe
- Optional lunch in traditional rural guest house
- Accommodation in Cormoran Hotel *** in Uzlina
Day 4: Razim-Sinoie lagoon complex is situated to the south of the delta and has a total area of 1,015 km2 of which the limans (flooded valleys) and lagoons comprise 863 km2. The complex consists mainly of basins that were originally marine bays (the former Gulf of Halmyris) that became isolated from the sea by sand bars and dunes resulting from the deposition of sediments. In the last decades of the century, the complex suffered severe changes being transformed partially in a fresh water resource for irrigation.
Gura Portitei is a village of a few Lipovani reed huts which connects the waters of the Razim-Golovita complex with the sea about 7 miles from Unirea. It has been marked on European maps ever since 1710. There is a fisheries station, a campsite, chalets and a restaurant. It is a peaceful, secluded place sought by Romanian intellectuals, and the starting point for those who go to the Periteasca-Leahova seabird reserve, to the north. Here is the place where you can watch a sunrise you never forget.
- Breakfast at Cormoran Hotel
- Boat trips: Dunavatu de Jos - Razim - Gura Portitei
- Optional lunch in traditional rural guest house
- Accommodation in Cormoran Hotel *** in Uzlina
Day 5: Histria, whose name derives from the ancient name of the Danube - Istros, was founded by Greek colonists (merchants and sailors) come from Milet (a city situated on the western coast of Asia Minor in today's Turkey). By the end of the 1st century B.C. the Romans took over, so that the traces that make up present-day the archaeological site today like defense walls, squares, temples, basilicas, thermal, shops, workshops, household tools and items, remnants of frontispieces, of other architectural elements, and of streets evince a Roman-Byzantine urban organization and a flourishing civilization (5-6th centuries A.D.) which lasted until the 7th century A.D., when the town was left by its inhabitants and fell into oblivion.
- Transfer Uzlina - Murghiol by motorboat
- Transfer Murghiol - Histria
- Visit Histria Ruins of the Greek and Roman ancient ruins
- Accommodation in Savoy Best Western Hotel **** in Mamaia resort
Day 6: Constanta is the biggest port in Romania, a powerful industrial commercial and tourist center, a wide gate towards the world, due to the harbor, was the "lung of the Romania".
- Breakfast at Savoy Best Western Hotel
- Tour of Constanta with visit to The Roman Mosaic, History Museum and The Casino
- Optional lunch
- Transfer Constanta - Bucharest
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Price Includes:
- Car/van/bus transportation
- Accommodation in 3* or 4* hotels in double rooms on B&B basis
- English speaking guide/driver
- Boat trips
- Entrance fees at the museums
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