Full
detailed itinerary
Day 1
We gather at Bucharest airport
we will drive north to Zarnesti, at the foothills of Piatra Craiului mountains
which will be our base for the night. Day
2 & 3
Today our biking tour starts by crossing the villages at the foothills
of the highest Romanian mountains, which are the entrance to the Saxon Land of
Transylvania. Overnight we will stay in a traditional Saxon village with family
guesthouses. The next day we will continue biking to one of the most famous Saxon
villages, Viscri. Listed on the Unesco Heritage List, the village delights the
eye with the most amazingly kept traditional architecture, due especially to the
Mihai Eminescu Trust that started to work here in the late 1990s. We will spend
the night in one of the traditional houses which was restored with the help of
the trust. Day 4
The
amazing hills that surround the Saxon villages are renowned for the extraordinary
richness of wildflowers and also as a perfect place for meeting the shepherds
that work in the area. Today we will take a horse and cart over the hills and
we’ll experience the sheepfold life and products of one of the many that
are spread on the hills. We’ll continue our ride to the next Saxon village
to visit the fortified church there. A car will pick us up for the ride to our
next destination, beautiful medieval Sighisoara town. Day
5, 6 & 7
These three days we’ll
be biking through remote Saxon villages that didn’t change much with time.
Being away from the main road we will have the opportunity to experience the traditional
way of life, to stay in family homes and to taste the great meals prepared by
gifted women in the villages. Some of the villages that we’ll cross became
famous due to their amazing fortified churches that survived for centuries to
the numerous attacks, or bad weather for that matter... We’ll admire the
wonderfully kept frescoes at Malancrav and we’ll visit the biggest of the
fortified churches in Transylvania, also a Unesco Heritage Site, Biertan. Our
final destination is the capital of the Saxon Land, Sibiu that was declared in
2007, due to its amazingly well kept historic centre, the European Cultural Capital. Day
8
Today we’ll return to Bucharest and
say goodbye. | Included
service for this itenerary
8
days, 7 nights
Group size: 1 - 5
Moderate
biking
- 7
nights of accomodation at selected local guesthouses and local farms
- All
meals
included
- All
airport transfers conducted by private A/C comfortable and new model vehicles
- All
tours by private professional tour guide (English speaking)
- All
entrance fees to sites mentioned
- All
necessary taxes
- All
of our tours can be customised upon request
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