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7 Days Transylvania and Bukovina Small Group Tour from Budapest

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Duration

7 days

Group Size

1 to 15 people

Ages

7 - 90 yrs

Languages

English

Tour Overview

Experience an 7-day small group tour from Budapest that includes European capital of Culture 2021 - Timisoara, and from 2007 - Sibiu. Learn how three different cultures converge in one country. Enjoy sightseeing in Bucharest, Romania's capital. Visit Dracula's birthplace, also Unesco citadel - Sighisoara. See Borgo Pass, Dracula's Castle, Peles Castle, Bicaz Gorges and the magnificent painted churches from Bucovina.

Additional information

Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
A dress code is required to enter places of worship and selected museums. No shorts or sleeveless tops allowed. Knees and shoulders MUST be covered for both men and women. You may risk refused entry if you fail to comply with these dress requirements
A minimum of 2 participants is required to organise the tour. If the tour it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund

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• Comfortable walking shoes are recommended • A dress code is required to enter places of worship and selected museums. No shorts or sleeveless tops allowed. Knees and shoulders MUST be covered for both men and women. You may risk refused entry if you fail to comply with these dress requirements • Comfortable walking shoes are recommended • A current valid passport is required on the day of travel

What's included

Acommodation in 3/4* hotels

Air-conditioned vehicle

Breakfast: 6

Small Group Tour (max 7 travellers)

Professional licensed tour guide that will be also the driver

Other

Itinerary

Day 1: Budapest – Timisoara

Visit Timisoara, a very charming city for its architectural features for many Turkish, Serbian, Austrian and German elements, which will become the European Capital of Culture in 2021

Overnight in a 4* hotel in Timisoara.

Day 2: Timisoara – The Corvini Castle – Alba Iulia – Sibiu

Visit the most fascinating gothic castle in Eastern Europe and one of the most beautiful and greatest of our continent, the famous Corvin Castle

Overnight in a 3* hotel in Sibiu.

Breakfast:

Day 3: Sibiu – Sighisoara – Targu Mures – Bistrita (260 km)

Visit to the city of Sighisoara, with its imposing Clock Tower. This citadel is the best preserved in Europe and, extraordinary, it is still inhabited. Since 1999 the historic center of Sighisoara is a UNESCO heritage site. Here we will admire the church on the hill, reachable after a wooden staircase called the schoolchildren’s ladder. We will also see the statue of the famous Hungarian national poet Petofi Sandor, testifying to the fact that in Sighisoara the Magyar community was in the past numerically important. Next to the statue is the beautiful Catholic church, reserved for the Hungarian community, and the tower of the shoemakers. You can have lunch at the house where Vlad the Impaler was born (not included)

Overnight in a 3* hotel in Bistrita.

Breakfast:

Day 4: Bistrita – Voronet – Moldovita – Sucevita – Marginea – Gura Humorului (250 km)

Visit the monastery of Voronet (Unesco), nicknamed the Sistine Chapel of the Carpathians, founded by the great prince Stephen the Great and characterized by a beautiful blue color, inimitable and unique in the world

Overnight in a 4* hotel/pension in Gura Humorului or Suceava.

Breakfast:

Day 5: Gura Humorului – Piatra Neamt – Bicaz Gorges – Miercurea Ciuc (290 km)

Short stop in Piatra Neamt, a famous ski resort that preserves a beautiful citadel founded at the time of Stephen the Great, in the fifteenth century and an 18th century synagogue. The city has a wonderful geographical position being surrounded by mountains that guard beautiful lush vegetation.

Overnight in a 3* hotel in Miercurea Ciuc.

Breakfast:

Day 6: Miercurea Ciuc – Brasov – Bran – Sinaia (180 km)

Visit Brasov, a wonderful Transylvanian town, once entirely fortified, an important cultural, tourist and commercial center. Brasov impresses with its typically German architecture, where the Gothic, the Baroque and the Renaissance intersect to give life to an interesting and culturally very lively city. Visit of the First Romanian School, which is located in the oldest district of the city, and which was inhabited exclusively by Romanians, the Schei district, interesting for the entrances into the city that were carried out in medieval times through the Caatherine’s and Schei Gate, quest last of the nineteenth century. In Brasov we will also visit the impressive Black Church, the largest evangelical Gothic church in Eastern Europe, with a 65 meter high bell tower and a length of 90 meters, the church houses the most beautiful nineteenth-century mechanical organ of Romania. We will then admire the palaces and houses of the historic center, recently restored, with the Council Square which now houses a beautiful museum, and the pedestrian Avenue of the Republic.

Overnight in a 4* hotel in Sinaia.

Breakfast:

Day 7: Sinaia - Bucharest (130 km)

Visit the fabulous Peles Castle, the summer residence of the first king of Romania, the King Charles 1 of Hohenzollern, of German origins. The castle was beautifully designed by a Czech architect, and is famous for being one of the most modern castles in Europe at the time of its construction, between the 19th and 20th centuries. Each room is characterized by a unique style, different from the styles of the other rooms. We will also admire the Florentine room, where we will breathe a typically Italian and Renaissance atmosphere.

Overnight in a 4* hotel in Bucharest.

Breakfast:

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7 Days Transylvania and Bukovina Small Group Tour from Budapest

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