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AN AWESOME AND RELAXING 3-DAYS TOUR IN THE TRADITIONAL MARAMURES
This private three days Discover Maramures tour is the perfect option if you don’t have more time to visit whole Romania and you want to discover the most traditional part of Romania.
Maramures is the place where the time stands still. It is one of the few places in Romania and Europe where the old customs are still kept alive.
Book this Discover Maramures Tour for the best experience in Romania and for taking your holiday to the next level!
The tour can be personalised according to your time and points of interest.
Itinerary: Bucharest Airport – Sapanta Merry Cemetery – Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance – Barsana Wooden Church – Woman Museum – Steam Train Trip – Maramures Region Highlights & Folklore Show – UNESCO Wooden Churches – Organic Smoked Bacon Tasting – Cluj-Napoca Walking Tour – Bucharest Airport
| DEPARTURE/RETURN | Bucharest |
| TRANSPORTATION | Fully insured sedan/minivan with climate control |
| TOURIST GUIDE | Certified English-Speaker Tourist Guide (speakers of other languages at request) |
| 3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites | Surdesti Wooden Church (Maramures Wooden Churches) Budesti Wooden Church (Maramures Wooden Churches) Barsana Wooden Church (Maramures Wooden Churches) |
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS AND UNIQUE CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
- Benefit of complete flexibility of having the tour tailored on your requirements, in terms of the route, the duration and the features of the tour;
- Enhance your experience through our choices of tours to match your particular interests and traveling style;
- Visit through our exclusively designed tours and cultural connections in Maramures no less than 3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites;
- Enjoy the exceptional knowledge and expertise of Romania’s top rated licensed tourist guide with excellent reviews;
- Enjoy traditional Maramures delight specialities, authentic local dining in our traditional home in Maramures;
- Meet local people in traditional markets and in a real home in Maramures;
- Meet & interact with locals in both home hosted experiences and local markets on our authentic cultural connections;
- Enjoy 2 nights of accommodation at full of character, in two superb local homes in Maramures;
- Meet local artists such as a woodcarver and an icon designer in their workshops and learn about the traditional arts & crafts;
- Make the most of your tour experience through our exclusively designed tours with all admissions included and not just only guided walks.
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Day 1: Bucharest Airport – Maramures – Sapanta Merry Cemetery – Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance – Barsana Wooden Church – Woman Museum - Home Hosted Dinner in Maramures
The Discover Maramures Tour will start with your visit the village of Sapanta. On the road to Sapanta you will see one of the most reach and beautiful commune of Romania, Certeze commune. Sapanta is known for the world famous Merry Cemetery. Here each wood cross carries a funny epitaph about the person’s life. Next, take a view of what is the tallest wooden structure in the world in this moment, Sapanta Peri monastery. Later, visit the colourful fruit and vegetable market in the town’s open-air market. After this, we will visit the Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance, which is a former political prison in the communist times. Alongside Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Battle of Normandy Memorial, this is one of the main memorial sites of Europe.
Next is the house of Nobel Prize Winner, Elie Wiesel who was born in this Romanian town.
We continue our tour along the picturesque Iza River Valley – an excellent opportunity to witness daily life in this corner of Romania. First, we will stop to visit a wooden church that is in UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Barsana village, where we will visit a famous master carver in his own workshop too. He represented Romania at the 1999 Smithsonian World Folk Festival in Washington, DC, famous for the wonderfully carved wooden gates. Next is the exquisite Barsana Monastery, an example of Maramures wooden church architecture at its best.
In the village of Dragomiresti we will visit the unique local museum located in a 300-year old home. You will be accommodate in a guesthouse located in the Upper Viseu village area in a double room with dinner and breakfast included.
Day 2: Steam Train Trip – Exclusive Walking Tour – Dinner with Folklore Show
Next, you will have an exclusive walking tour of a traditional Maramuresan village including an icon-glass workshop – where you will learn about the technique too, the local traditional plum brandy distillery and a natural whirlpool still used by the local women to wash the carpets and the blankets.
In the evening enjoy the home hosted dinner with the traditional home-made plum brandy, this helps the people to get deeper into the local culture faster, with an exclusively organized Maramures folklore show at the accommodation place.
Day 3: Surdesti & Budesti Wooden Churches – Organic Smoked Bacon Tasting with Home-made Lunch – Cluj-Napoca Walking Tour – Bucharest Airport
Before stopping at the airport for your returning flight take a walking tour in Cluj Napoca, the capital of Transylvania in the 18th and 19th century, today an important university center. The walking tour with the main landmarks such as the Hellmer & Felner Opera House, the Gothic St. Michael’s Church, the City Hall and the birth house of Mathias Corvin. After the walking tour your Discover Maramures tour will finish with your flight to Henri Coanda International Airport at 7:40 in the evening.
***Optional: Two day Black Sea & Danube Delta Extension with Danube Delta Private Cruise accompanied by certified skipper (requires two extra days)
***Optional: You can choose a Bucharest City Tour (requires one extra day)
NOTE: The tour is further customizable.
Extra full day Bucharest City Tour
After the breakfast, we will start the visit of the capital city of Romania. The day starts with a visit to the Village Museum, one of the most impressive open-air museums in Europe with century old original peasant households from all parts of Romania.
After, we will visit the world’s largest, heaviest and most expensive administrative building, the Palace of Parliament. Between the two communist landmarks, we will have a panoramic tour of the city with Victory Square and Avenue, Royal Palace and Revolution Square and a short stop and visit of the Romanian Athenaeum. Next, we will attend a visit to the former residence of Ceausescu family, the last communist leader of the Socialist Republic of Romania. In contradistinction with the Ceausescu former residence we will have an incursion back in time, in the communist time, where you will have the opportunity to experience life in the 80’s with the help of authentic decor and furniture, working appliances and household accessories, local drinks and homemade snacks and historical and archive footage.
Before arriving in the old city center we will stop in the Cotroceni Neighborhood where we will visit the Presidential Palace and a typical 1930s Bucharest Residence.
In the late afternoon, we will reach Bucharest’s Old Town, with the ruins of the Old Princely Court, known as Dracula’s residence, where the legend says that Vlad the Impaler was keeping his prisoners. We will take a sightseeing tour of this part of the city, filled with lively cafes and street food to see why the nickname of Bucharest is “The Little Paris”. The rest of the evening is on your own.
Two day Black Sea & Danube Delta Extension with Danube Delta Private Cruise accompanied by certified skipper
Extra Day 1: Bucharest – Constanta Walking Tour – Histria Fortress – Tulcea
Extra Day 2: Danube Delta Private Cruise with Lunch – Bucharest Airport
After the tour we will drive back to Henri Coanda International Airport for your afternoon return flight.
Tour Reviews
It was a private tour with our guide, Dan and the tour experience in Maramures was great! Dan is knowledgeable & he certainly knows his way around. He is very accommodating, drives safely & has a sense of humour. An enjoyable trip with a great guide!
The tour explored different villages in the Maramures region. What you are able to see there depends on the season; (when I went there was not much farming activity) but we were able to visit the Merry Cemetery, a number of wooden churches, craftspeople, a local festival, a wedding party, scenic areas and local households. We happened to visit on a Sunday so were lucky to see some religious services and meet people dressed in their beautiful traditional clothes.
Dan was also invaluable at introducing us to some talented craftspeople in the area. With his accompaniment, we received a warm welcome everywhere we went. People were so inviting, generously showing us around their homes, sharing food and drink and even letting us try on their handmade traditional clothes. These experiences, and the great photographs I was able to take, were made possible by Dan’s rapport with the local people.
We had a remarkable time in Maramures. Dan is an easygoing and charming guide who gave us a deep insight into Romanian culture in just few days. He has big knowledge and is happy to share it with you. We will definately come back to book one of his other tours to get to know romania better. highly recommended!
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