|
WALKING TOUR TO THE PAINTED AND WOODEN CHURCHES
A 10 days tour to the north of Romania, which includes visits to the painted churches in Bucovina and the wooden churches in Maramures. The visits are not made just hopping in and out of the car, but walking through the hills and mountains to reach a new church!
The tour is focused on admiring the nature and landscape, talking with locals and taste de home made and home grown products of our hosts.
 Day 1:
Arriving in Romania. Fly to Suceava or Iasi, where you will be meet and transferred to your accommodation in Bucovina.
Diner and accommodation with village families for the next 4 nights.
Day 2:
Walk from your accommodation to visit Sucevita painted church. Continue a 5 hours walk through a beautiful forest to Putna monastery. Return by car to the accommodation.
Picnic lunch. Dinner with our hosts.
Same overnight accommodation.
 Day 3:
We walk today to Moldovita painted church (7 hours walk). During the walk we have wonderful views over the mountains and hamlets.
Moldovita, build in 1532 and painted in 1537, is known for the specialists as the yellow painted church. The museum holds the “golden apple” price, received in 1977 from a French magazine by all the painted churches in the area, as the best tourism destination.
Picnic lunch. Dinner with our hosts.
Same overnight accommodation.
Day 4:
We visit in the morning two pottery work shops in Marginea and Radauti.
 Then we do a small walk (2 hours) over the hills and through the villages to reach Humor painted church. The small church of Humor is designed as the red one and it has similarities with the church of Moldovita.
Before the dusk visit Voronet, the Sistine Chapel of Orient and understand the famous painting of the Last Judgment.
Picnic lunch. Dinner with our hosts.
Same overnight accommodation.
Day 5:
Today we cross Carpathians to reach Maramures, the land of wood. Maramures is a region up north Romania, surrounded by mountains and with picturesque meadows and valleys, where people still wear their traditional clothes everyday. The region is also famous for the small timber houses, with huge wooden entrance gates and for the wooden churches competing to reach the sky.
Picnic lunch. Dinner with our hosts in Maramures
Overnight accommodation with village families.
"THE MARAMURES is a land cut off by mountains to the south and, since 1945, by the border with what was the Soviet Union to the north. Still today there is something distinctly sylvan about the Maramureseni, especially when one sees them huddled together in their wooden churches prying to God to help them eke out a living, with their mostly wooden tools, from their small patches of ground encircled by the enchoing forest.
In valleys surrounded by forests and mountains, with no towns of any size nearby, remote and poorly connected to the outside world, the Maramures remained one of the most unaltered regions of Europe" (WILLIAM BLACKER, Along the Enchanted Way)
 Day 6:
We walk today from village to village to explore the countryside, to talk with the people and to see them engaged in their day by day activities, which change with the season. During the walk we have the chance to visit a traditional wooden church, UNESCO heritage.
Picnic lunch. Dinner with our hosts.
Same overnight accommodation.
Day 7:
Today is a challenge for walking. We will be driven to the starting point, then we start an easy hike, before taking the path to the peak (2 ½ hours hike). We descend from the peak to continue our hike back to village (3 ½ hours walk).
 Day 8:
Visiting (this time by car) more valleys and villages in Maramures, we start our journey south to Cluj, for your last night in Transylvania. Stop to visit an UNESCO heritage church with lovely restored paintings.
Dinner independent.
Overnight accommodation in cluj to a 3* hotel in the center.
Day 9:
Transfer to the airport.
Total price: 1050 EURO/person.
Starting with 2.
 The price includes:
- 8 Overnight accommodation as described in the itinerary; 7 nights with village families, 1 night in a 3* central hotel in Cluj double sharing;
- Meals included (except dinner on day 9). Lunches are as picnic. Dinners are with our hosts (local and home made cooking).
- Full time guide/interpreter; the walking path are not marked, the tour can not be done self guided.
- Comfortable AC car from your arriving point to the departure; Driver; Fuel included.
- Visits included: 4 painted monasteries, 3 wooden churches in Maramures.
The price does not include:
- dinner on day 8 in Cluj;
- photo/video permit to some monuments (painted monasteries have extra charge for photo or video)
- alcoholic drink with the meals (but usually the hosts provide free home made alcoholic drinks as plum brandy or wine);
- flights and travel insurance.
Please do remind that the itinerary is just an example, we can adjust the tour to fit with your enquiries and interests.
Eco-Cultural Tour Romania/My Romania
www.myromania.com.ro;
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
phone: +00.40.723.191.755
fax: +00.40.334.429.483 |
