
The tour offers great opportunities for family bonding as it takes you through the most interesting regions of Romania: Transylvania, Maramures and Bucovina.
Accommodation at a traditional rural guesthouse in Maramures.
Drive time: 4h
You will walk on a trail between villages for 5-6 hours which will allow you to discover the region, see the traditional houses and churches and the way people live and work the land. You can start or finish the day with a visit to a pool with salty water in a nearby village where you can bathe and swim.
Accommodation at a traditional rural guesthouse in Maramures.
Accommodation at a traditional rural guesthouse in Maramures.
Drive time: 4h
Accommodation at a traditional rural guesthouse in Bucovina region.
Drive time: 5h
Accommodation at a traditional rural guesthouse in Bucovina region.
If you would like to have other activities instead of visiting the monasteries or hiking you can have a 1h drive to a swimming pool. Nearby there is also an adventure park where the children can do climbing. Another option is to have a ride through the countryside with an old narrow-gauge train passing by villages, meadows, forests and mountains. The round-trip will take around 3 hours.
Accommodation at a traditional rural guesthouse in Bucovina region.
Drive time: 2-3 hours
Then you will arrive at Sovata, a resort appreciated for its natural spring waters and home to the largest heliothermic lake in the world. In this lake, in the summer the temperature of the water at the surface is 15-20 degrees while at 1.5 m depth it reaches 40 degrees Celsius so it offers a very interesting experience. Being half way through your tour you will stay 2 nights in this region so you can bathe and rest.
Accommodation at a hotel in Sovata.
Drive time: 5h
In the afternoon you will have an introduction workshop into pottery, you will get your hands dirty and try to make your own bowl or vase.
Accommodation at a hotel in Sovata.
In the evening you will arrive in a village near the mountains where there is a guesthouse and a horse stable.
Accommodation at a guesthouse with a horse stable near the mountains.
Drive time: 3 hours
Horse riding time: 2 to 5-6 hours depending on your preference.
Accommodation in a tent
Horse riding time: 2 to 5-6 hours depending on your preference.
Accommodation at a guesthouse with a horse stable near the mountains.
You can choose to drive to a certain point, leave the car and then have a 4h hike to the highest point where the road goes. There is also a lake and on the way you will pass by a waterfall. The way back it will take 3 hours or less. Or you can drive all the way and once at the lake you can do a 3 hours roundtrip hike to a 2500m peak.
Accommodation at a rural guesthouse near Sibiu.
Drive time: 4h30-5h
Accommodation at a rural guesthouse near Sibiu.
Drive time: 2h
Accommodation in Bucharest.
This is the last day of your Family Tour in Romania. You will be transferred to the airport where you will take the flight back home.
The drive time is calculated without stops.
This tour was designed together with AuthenTrip.ro
- Trip planning. This will include a personalized self-drive booklet with vouchers for accommodation, detailed information about the places you are visiting, directions, useful contacts and recommended things to see and do along the way. This is like a personalized Lonely Planet guidebook.
- Accommodation for 14 Nights with breakfast included
- 3 nights in 2 double rooms at a rural guesthouse in Breb, Maramures region
- 3 nights in 2 double rooms at a rural guesthouse in Orata, Bucovina region
- 2 nights in 2 double rooms at a hotel in Sovata
- 2 nights in 2 double rooms at a rural guesthouse in Sinca Noua and 1 night in a tent during the horse-riding trip
- 2 nights in an apartment at rural guesthouse in Orlat village
- 1 night in Bucharest Hotel Capitol, 3*
- Meals
- 11 Dinners
- 5 Packed lunches for picnic while hiking or horse riding
- 1 Lunch
- Rented car for 15 days: Toyota Auris, Ford Focus, Opel Astra or similar, all insurances are included. 500 EUR (approximately 550 USD) will be blocked on your card when picking up the car and it will be released if the car is returned without damages. Pick up in Cluj Napoca on the first day and drop it at the hotel in Bucharest on the 14th day
- Activities
- Full day of working at the farm of the guesthouse in Orata, Bucovina region
- Pottery workshop for 1h30
- Guided day trip in the countryside around Sibiu
- 2 days guided horse-riding roundtrip with 2 to 5-6h riding a day, depending on your preferences. You will spend the night in a tent (tent and sleeping bags are provided).
EXCLUDED SERVICES
- flights
- Meals (except those included above)
- For the car: GPS, fuel
- entrance tickets to tourist sites

1100 EUR
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