Travelling by coach
From border to border I
Here is a possibility to know Romania for the persons who have air-sickness and who may choose to travel by coach, starting from their own country.
| Price/person |
starting from 225 € |
| Extra payment for single |
95 € |
Included
• accommodation and half board and lodging, in 2 and 3 stars hotels;
• all the hotel rooms have phones, TVs and shower baths/ vats;
• all the trips and entrances to the sights described in the program; |
An escorting guide for the whole time of the circuit, speaking the foreign language known by the group.
Facilities: for every 20 paying persons, a free place in a single room is provided. |
A tour through Romania is truly an occasion to discover a country that is continuously changing. You will see a nature still little transformed by the man’s hand, with picturesque villages, with an intense spiritual life or with historical cities, like Sibiu and Braşov. All over the country, you will meet hospitable people, proud to disclose you as much as possible from their culture, faith and traditions. This is, probably, the best moment for you to see such a country, because here present, past and future stay now together, in a mysterious combination.
DAY 1: - getting in Romania, through Nădlac; the group will be taken over by the Romanian guide, around noon, and they will travel towards Arad. After a short walking through the center Arad, you will be able to admire the building of the Mayoralty, the Roman-Catholic Cathedral, the Red Church and so on; dinner and accommodation, in a hotel from Arad.
DAY 2: - after breakfast, the departure towards Brăila. In this town, of over 2000 years old, it was built the Citadel of White Carolina, in the style of Vauban, at the beginning of the 18th century, after the plans of an Italian architecture, named Visconti. The group visits the Orthodox Cathedral and the Roman-Catholic one, after which follows the departure towards Sibiu. The city of Sibiu, an old Saxon citadel, also called Hermanstadt – fascinates you by its medieval aspect, perfectly defined by the Museum of Brukenthal, the Towers and the Bridge of Liars. Dinner will be served in a peasant household, in the village of Sibiel.
Accommodation, in one of the center town hotels, itself an architectural monument.
DAY 3: - Today, we will make for Braşov, a city of great importance for Romania’s history, culture and economy. After a short tour of the town, we will visit the Black Church, famous for its Anatholian carpets collection. Then, you will have some free time to spend in the center of Braşov, after which we make for the Bran Castle. This castle was built as a military barrack at the beginning of the 20th century and its name is nowadays related to the famous legend of Dracula. After this, follows the departure towards Sinaia, where we will stay for three nights.
DAY 4: - From Sinaia, we will make a day trip to Bucharest. In sightseeing of the town, we will admire the Romanian Athenaeum, the Triumph Arch, The National Museum of History, the Palace of the Parliament and so on…Also, will be visited The Village Museum and, if it’s possible, the Patriarchal Church. Bucharest, once called “The Little Paris”, is a fascinating city, where the classic meets the modern, the city of the Revolution of 1989, the only directly transmitted revolution. In the afternoon, we are back to Sinaia, for dinner and accommodation.
DAY 5: - This day is a more relaxed one; we will be free to enjoy the beauty of the city from the lap of the Bucegi Mountains. After visiting the Monastery of Sinaia and the Peleş Castle, you have a half day free time to walk or to climb by the funicular to the 2000m Height. Dinner and accommodation, in at the same hotel, in Sinaia.
DAY 6: Today, we say good bye to Sinaia and we head to the province called Moldavia. The road gets us through a spectacular landscape, through the wonderful Gorges of Bicaz. Here, on the high peaks of the Oriental Carpathians, grows the famous edelweiss. Then, we will visit the Monastery of Voroneţ, famous by its blue color, better known also as “The Sixtin Chapel of the Orient”. Dinner and accommodation in Câmpulung Moldovenesc for two nights.
DAY 7: It is the turn of the monasteries of Moldoviţa and Suceviţa, other two monasteries of the five that are both inner and out painted. The spiritual life of the nuns who are living here impresses any tourist. Before coming back to the hotel, in Câmpulung Moldovenesc, will be visited the Wooden Museum. During dinner, a folk spectacle will be organized.
DAY 8: Our next destination is the city of Satu-Mare, for your final staying overnight. Through the pass of Prislop, we will get in Maramureş, a province that is famous for its wooden gates and churches. Here, you can still see people dressed in their traditional folk costumes, but also an unique cemetery, called “The Marry Cemetery of Săpânţa. The wooden crosses in Săpânţa impress by their blue color, but also by the “life story” of the person buried there, a story with a humorous tinted story written on the cross. After that, dinner and accommodation in a hotel of Satu-Mare.
DAY 9: After breakfast, you will leave Romania through the border point Petea. |
|
