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Small & Traditional

12 Days from £3,330pp

HOLIDAY HIGHLIGHTS
● Stunning mountain and forest scenery
● Remote villages with a traditional way of life
● Homestay accommodation, full of character yet
with all necessary facilities
Sheep near Breb © Ramona Cazacu ● Sighişoara medieval citadel
● Painted Monasteries of Bucovina
● Two narrow gauge steam railways
● Many meals from locally sourced organic produce

SELECTED HOTELS
Rural Romania - Cluj Napoca Grand Hotel Napoca
Veseud
Veseud 11
Praid
Pensiunea Stefania
Where Time Stands Still Hoteni Popica Guesthouse
Vişeu de Sus Hotel Gabriela
Moldovita
Pensiunea Crizantema
Please note – hotels can be subject to change
Friday 18 September to Tuesday 29 September 2026 PRICE INCLUDES
● Flights in Economy Class by scheduled airline
UK’s Leading Specialist Operator to Romania ● Rail travel as specified
● Other travel by private mini-coach
Relive a bygone age when rural life meant working fields with horses, stacking hay in haystacks ● Hotel accommodation in Cluj and Vişeu de Sus
and preparing meals from home grown produce. Visit remote Saxon villages with their fortified ● Other accommodation in good quality guest house
or family homestay with en-suite facilities
churches in Transylvania, enjoy village life in Maramures and the painted monasteries of Bucovina. ● All breakfasts, 8 lunches and 8 evening meals
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Stay in family run homestay accommodation and ride two steam narrow gauge railways. ● Admissions to monasteries, fortified churches and
Merry Cemetery
● Airport and other transfers
Day 1 - Flight to Cluj Napoca Day 7 - Village Life
Afternoon flight from London for a late evening Exploring some of the local villages, we find old ● Services of a tour leader from London and throughout
the tour plus local professional Romanian guide
arrival in Cluj. Overnight hotel stay. wooden churches, examples of domestic industry,
machines powered by water and fields worked by
Day 2 - Medias & Veseud hand or horses. We will also visit the famous Merry PRICE PER PERSON:
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Morning train to Mediaş arriving in time for lunch Cemetery where the gravestones have been painted Escorted holiday £3,330
(included). We stay for 2 nights in guest house by local artists to depict the lives of those who have Single room supplement £425
accommodation in the village of Veseud. All our guest passed away. Deposit for this holiday £300
house and homestay accommodation have been
specially converted for tourist use and include en- Day 8 - Viseu de Sus
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suite facilities. Dinner at the accommodation. Visit more remote villages, have lunch with a village Day 12 - Cluj to London
family and continue to Vişeu de Sus, centre of the
Day 3 - Saxon Villages logging industry, for a 1 night stay. Transfer to airport for afternoon flight to London,
We explore Saxon villages with their fortified arriving late afternoon.
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 Due to the limited number of rooms in homestay
Day 4 - Sighisoara Medieval Fortress and so the timber is removed by train. We take a accommodation, this tour will be limited to 12
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Visit the fortified citadel of Sighișoara, a UNESCO ride along the 20km route behind steam. BBQ lunch persons.
World Heritage Site and birthplace of Vlad the provided at the upper terminus. In the afternoon we
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
Hungarian peoples. Accommodation with dinner for nights. Dinner included.
2 nights at a homestay in Praid.
Day 10 - Painted Monasteries
Day 5 - Hungarian Villages We visit the Painted Monasteries at Sucevita and
Drive to Corund, famous for its ceramics. We continue Moldovita and take a trip on another former
through a remote area with small Hungarian villages, forestry railway. Lunch included and dinner at our
stopping en route for lunch with a village family. accommodation.

Day 6 - Maramures ̧ Day 11 - Return to Cluj
We drive north, pausing en route at the delightful Visit the Voronet Monastery before having lunch in
Liliac Winery for wine tasting and a picnic lunch. Gura Humorului and catching the early afternoon
Cross the Carpathians into Maramureş, a remote train across the mountains to Cluj, arriving mid-
region where life has remained almost unchanged for evening.
centuries. We stay for 2 nights in Hoteni.

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