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Rural Romania

4 September to 15 September 2025
19 September to 30 September 2025

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 churches in Transylvania, enjoy village life in Maramureș and the painted monasteries of Bucovina. Stay in family run homestay accommodation and ride two steam narrow gauge railways.

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Danube delta

Romania’s Danube Delta & the Carpathians – a Wildlife Paradise

15 May to 24 May 2026

Discover some of the last true wilderness areas in Europe, teeming with wildlife. We search for rare wading birds in the Delta, visit a bear sanctuary in the mountains in the company of experts and encounter a rural life that makes Romania so appealing.

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Water mill

Romania – West & Danube Valley

5 June to 14 June 2026

This tour explores the historic cities of Timişoara and Sibiu, the beautiful Danube Gorge and a hidden valley with working water mills. Visit the narrow gauge railway workshops in Criscior, ride a steam charter from Criscior to Brad and the tramway museum at Ghioroc.

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Washing

Rural Romania – Where Time Stands Still

18 September to 29 September 2026

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 churches in Transylvania, enjoy village life in Maramureș and the painted monasteries of Bucovina. Stay in family run homestay accommodation and ride two steam narrow gauge railways.

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