Hiking in Transylvania
Our hiking tour in Transylvania is proposing you not only hiking and trekking in one of the nicest and best preserved zones of Europe, but also a few days for discovering the Maramures and the Bucovina regions. The tiny village Lunca ilvei is located at the feet of the Bargau Mountains (Northern Carpathians). The kindness of its inhabitants and the gorgeous scenery will stay engraved into your memory.
These four days of hiking in Transylvania will offer you the true image of the meaning of rural life in Romania. Sharp green meadows, flocks of sheep with their shepherds and the watch dogs returning daily for milking at the sheepfold, multicolor mountain flowers, and not for last simple local people who, despite their rude life, preserve their native humour- everything is present to impress the visitors. Not to mention the perfect silence of the high mountains,with no civilisation sound, which impresses anybody living in a town!
Being modelled for all public, our short Transylvania hiking and trekking tour does not ask for important hiking skills.
After the days of hiking in Transylvania we continue across two other regions of Romania: the Maramures, land of the wooden churches and the Bucovina, land of painted monasteries (UNESCO Patrimony), but also paradise of local gastronomy.
For the entire duration of this Transylvania trekking tour you will be accompanied by a specialized English speaking tour guide, doubled on the hiking trails by a local guide, who will take you off the beaten tracke, following cattle and sheep pathes. For usthis hiling tour in Transylvanian carpathians is one of the best and accessible hikings in Romania.
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Itinerary
Please click on each day to see the daily details.
Arrival in Cluj and departure (by minibus / bus) to Lunca Ilvei, a mountain village between Maramures and Bucovine.
Dinner and overnight in a rural guesthouse.
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These days you will enchant your eyes with authentic summer log houses. The peasents here live in isolated rustical dwellings, often without any electricity, however well located in the nature.
You will also discover a breathtaking view over the entire Valley of Ilva. And don't be surprised to recognize sources of mineral water.
About 12-15 km/ day, easy to medium level. Slope max. 350 m. Picnic lunch.
Accompanying : local guide
Dinner and overnight in the same guesthouse as he previous day.
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These days you will enchant your eyes with authentic summer log houses. The peasents here live in isolated rustical dwellings, often without any electricity, however well located in the nature.
You will also discover a breathtaking view over the entire Valley of Ilva. And don't be surprised to recognize sources of mineral water.
About 12-15 km/ day, easy to medium level. Slope max. 350 m. Picnic lunch.
Accompanying : local guide
Dinner and overnight in the same guesthouse as he previous day.
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These days you will enchant your eyes with authentic summer log houses. The peasants here live in isolated rustic dwellings, often without any electricity, however well located in the nature.
You will also discover a breathtaking view over the entire Valley of Ilva. And don't be surprised to recognise sources of mineral water.
About 12-15 km/ day, easy to medium level. Slope max. 350 m. Picnic lunch.
Accompanying : local guide
Dinner and overnight in the same guesthouse as he previous day.
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These days you will enchant your eyes with authentic summer log houses. The peasents here live in isolated rustical dwellings, often without any electricity, however well located in the nature.
You will also discover a breathtaking view over the entire Valley of Ilva. And don't be surprised to recognize sources of mineral water.
About 12-15 km/ day, easy to medium level. Slope max. 350 m. Picnic lunch.
Accompanying : local guide
Dinner and overnight in the same guesthouse as he previous day.
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Traditional music evening with local musicians in Maramures.
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This monastery is highlighted by its unique blue colour and the scene of the Last Judgement painted on the Western wall is one of the most impressive achitectural and aesthetic achievements of Moldavia.
Traveling by train back to Lunca Ilvei, starting from Vatra Dornei (famous health and SPA therapy resort).
Visit the city of Cluj-Napoca (3 hours), one of the most important educational, cultural and industrial centres of the country, also named the historical capital of Transylvania.
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Farewell dinner in restaurant. Overnight in a 3* hotel in Cluj Napoca.
Transfer to the airport for departure.
What's Included
Notes
Price does not include: extra taxes for cameras and filming (requested in some places - e.g. the monasteries), personal drinks off the boarding, tips (optional).
Pricing
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Participants no.PeriodPrice/Pers.Supplement (single)
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8-20 (constitued groups)April - October865 EUR80 EUR
Notes
Rates do not apply in Easter period.
Quotation on request for other group sizes or discounts for children under 12
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