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Small & Traditional

Moldovita Railway, Romania © Ramona Cazacu 12 Days From £2,850pp

HOLIDAY HIGHLIGHTS
■ Stunning mountain and forest scenery
■ Remote villages with a traditional way of life
■ “Homestay” accommodation, full of character yet with

Rural Romania - all necessary facilities
■ Sighişoara medieval citadel
■ Painted Monasteries of Bucovina
■ Two narrow gauge steam railways
Where Time Stands Still ■ Many meals from locally sourced organic produce

SELECTED HOTELS
Cluj Napoca
Veseud Grand Hotel Napoca
Veseud 11
Friday 6 October to Tuesday 17 October 2023 Praid Pensiunea Stefania
Hoteni Popica Guesthouse
Vişeu de Sus Mirage Resort
UK’s Leading Specialist Operator to Romania Moldovita Pensiunea Crizantema
Please note - hotels can be subject to change
Relive a bygone age when rural life meant working fields with horses, stacking hay in haystacks
and preparing meals from home grown produce. Visit remote Saxon villages with their fortified PRICE INCLUDES
■ Flights in Economy Class by scheduled airline
churches in Transylvania, enjoy village life in Maramures˛ and the painted monasteries of Bucovina.
■ Rail travel as specified
Stay in family run “homestay” accommodation and ride two steam narrow gauge railways. ■ Other travel by private mini-coach
■ Hotel accommodation in Cluj and Vişeu de Sus
Day 1 - Flight to Cluj Napoca Day 7 - Village Life ■ Other accommodation in good quality guest house
Afternoon flight from London for a late evening Exploring some of the local villages, we find old or family “homestay” with en-suite facilities
arrival in Cluj. Overnight hotel stay. wooden churches, examples of domestic industry, ■ All breakfasts, 8 lunches and 8 evening meals
machines powered by water and fields worked by ■ Admissions to monasteries, fortified churches
Day 2 - Mediaş and Veseud hand or horses. We will also visit the famous Merry and Merry Cemetery
Morning train to Mediaş arriving in time for lunch Cemetery where the gravestones have been painted ■ Airport and other transfers
(included). We stay for 2 nights in homestay by local artists to depict the lives of those who have ■ Services of a tour leader from London and throughout
accommodation in the village of Veseud. (All our passed away. the tour plus local professional Romanian Guide
homestay accommodation has been specially
converted for tourist use and includes en-suite Day 8 - Vişeu de Sus Price per person:
facilities). Dinner at the accommodation. Visit more remote villages, have lunch with a village Escorted holiday £2,850
family and continue to Vişeu de Sus, centre of the Single room supplement £375
Day 3 - Saxon Villages logging industry, for a 1-night stay.
We explore Saxon villages with their fortified Deposit for this holiday £200
churches and have lunch with a village family. Day 9 - The Last Forestry Railway in Europe
There is no road access to much of the Vaser Valley
Day 4 - Sighişoara Medieval Fortress and so the timber is removed by train. We take a Day 12 - Cluj to London
Visit the fortified citadel of Sighișoara, a UNESCO ride along the 20km route behind steam. BBQ lunch Transfer to airport for flight to London, arriving early
World Heritage Site and birthplace of Vlad the provided at the upper terminus. In the afternoon we afternoon.
Impaler (better known as Count Dracula), then drive over the Prislop Pass into Bucovina and our
continue into Eastern Transylvania, an area settled by next homestay at Moldovita where we stay for 2 Due to the limited number of rooms in “homestay”
Hungarian peoples. Accommodation with dinner for nights. Dinner included. accommodation, this tour will be limited to 12 persons.
2 nights at a homestay in Praid.
Day 10 - Painted Monasteries
Day 5 - Hungarian Villages A visit to the Painted Monasteries at Sucevita
Optional visit to the Praid salt mine before driving and Moldovita and take a trip on another former
to Corund, famous for its ceramics. We continue forestry railway. Lunch included and dinner at our
through a remote area with small Hungarian villages, accommodation.
stopping en route for lunch with a village family.
Day 11 - Return to Cluj
Day 6 - Maramureş Today we visit the Voronet Monastery before having
We drive north, pausing en route at the delightful lunch in Gura Humorului and catching the early
Liliac Winery for wine tasting and a picnic lunch. afternoon train across the mountains to Cluj, arriving
Cross the Carpathians into Maramureş, a remote mid-evening.
region where life has remained almost unchanged for
centuries. We stay for 2 nights in Hoteni.

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