BUCHAREST SIGHTSEEING TOURS
If you have only a few hours or half a day available, you can join us on one of our fascinating Bucharest City
Sightseeing Tours. The themes of the tours vary in accordance with your interests as they focus on different
aspects of the history and culture of Romania’s capital city. They range from explorations of the city’s arts,
mediaeval history, commercial past or French eclectic architecture to a discovery of communist Bucharest and
the daily life of its inhabitants.
BUCHAREST - FULL DAY TOUR (8-9 hours)
Period: TUESDAY & SATURDAY, 22nd of May & 26th of May 2012
Rate: 69 EURO/person
The rate is calculated for minimum 10 persons.
Route: The Vilage Museum, The Triumphal Arch, Victory Square,
Magheru Avenue (comercial street), Royal Palace (National Art
Museum - optional visit), Atheneum, Revolution Square, Calea
Victoriei Avenue, Unirii Square, Parliament Palace, Mitropoliei
Cathedral, Old Princely Court, Old District: Lipscani street,
Stavropolus Church, Capsa Hotel, Manuc Inn
Services included:
- transportation by minibus / bus;
- english guide;
- entrance tickets at Village Museum and Parliament House
(Standard Tour + Overview of the city - Terrace)
- driver.
Services not included:
- photo and video fees;
- lunch and dinner;
- other services not specified on „Services included”.
Details:
Pick up from your location in Bucharest early in the morning and start to explore the capital of Romania.
First stop at Village Museum, lying in a specific romanian setting, on the Herãstrãu lake shore in Bucharest, is
one of the biggest and the oldest outdoors museum in Europe. Its exibits - genuinemonuments including
houses, pens, churches, water and wind mills, cloth mills, of great historic and artistic value - acquaint the
visitors in two hours with the specific of the Romanian village. The objects inside the households - carpets,
pottery, rugs, icons, furniture - point to the originality of the folk creation, the sensibility and care for the
beauty of the rural people.
Than we’ll start a panoramic tour of the most important sites and areas from the city such as: Triumph Arch,
Victory Square, Magheru Avenue (comercial street), Royal Palace (nowdays the seat of National Art Museum),
Atheneum, Revolution Square, Calea Victoriei Avenue, Unirii Square, Parliament Palace (Standard Tour +
Overview of the city - Terrace (Upper Floor Access by Elevator)), a "giant" built during the "golden age" of the
dictatorial regime and born in the mind of a man for whom the notion of "reasonable size" did not exist. The
Guiness Book of World Records lists the building in second place according to its 330,000 sq.m. surface, that is
after the Pentagon building, and in third place according to its 2,550,000 c.m. volume.
After the Parliament Palace visit we will make a short stop for lunch (optional), at a traditional Romanian
resturant, „La Mama”.
Near to the Parliament Palace is the “Mitropoliei” Hill where we can visit the Mitropoliei Cathedral the seat of
the Orthodox Romanian Church.
Than return in the Old District for a walking tour: Lipscani street, Stavropolus Church, Capsa Hotel, Manuc Inn,
a.s.o.
The best way to end the day is with a dinner (optional) in a character restaurant such as: “Carul cu bere”,
“Manuc” Restaurant. Drop off at your location in Bucharest.
Note: This tour is not accessible to disabled persons.
For booking please click on Hotel
Accommodation / Tours Registration Form.
BUCHAREST – PANORAMIC TOUR (2-3 hours)
Period: TUESDAY & FRIDAY, 22nd of May & 25th of May 2012
Rate: 27 EURO/person
The rate is calculated for minimum 10 persons.
Route: Triumph Arch, Victory Square, Magheru Avenue (comercial street), Royal Palace (nowdays the seat of
National Art Museum), Atheneum, Revolution Square, Calea Victoriei Avenue, Unirii Square, Parliament Palace
Services included:
- transport by bur or minibus;
- english speaking guide;
- driver.
Services not included:
- entrance tickets at the monuments;
- photo and video fees;
- other services not specified on the intinerary.
Details:
Pick up from your location in Bucharest and start to explore the
capital of Romania, through a panoramic tour by car. During the
tour you’ll have the chance to see the most importants sights of Romanan Capital, such as: Triumph Arch,
Victory Square, Magheru Avenue (comercial street), Royal Palace (nowdays the seat of National Art Museum),
Atheneum, Revolution Square, Calea Victoriei Avenue, Unirii Square, Parliament Palace, a "giant" built during
the "golden age" of the dictatorial regime and born in the mind of a man for whom the notion of "reasonable
size" did not exist. The Guiness Book of World Records lists the building in second place according to its
330,000 sq.m. surface, that is after the Pentagon building, and in third place according to its 2,550,000 c.m.
volume.
Stops for photos and short walks at Royal Palace, Revolution Square and Parliament Palace.
Drop off at your location in Bucharest.
For booking please click on Hotel
Accommodation / Tours Registration Form.
B UCHAREST S URROUNDINGS T OUR (6-7 hours)
Period: Period: TUESDAY & SATURDAY,
22nd of May & 26th of May 2012
Rate: 59 EURO/person
The rate is calculated for minimum 10 persons.
Route: Bucharest - Tiganesti - Caldarusani - Snagov village - Snagov
Monastery – Bucharest
Services:
- english speaking guide;
- transport by minibus / bus;
- entrance ticket at Snagov Monastery.
Services not included:
- photo and video fees;
- other services not specified on the intinerary.
Details:
You are picked up at your hotel half an hour before the start of the tour. The trip offers you the possibility to
combine a short sightseeing tour of Bucharest with the surrounding beautiful landscape offered by Snagov Lake
and forest embroidered with monasteries and palaces. We will stop to visit Caldarusani Monastery, built by
ruler Matei Basarab and leter painted by Nicolae Grigorescu. Then, we are sure that you will enjoy a tasty lunch
(optionally) in a picturesque zone near Snagov Lake and after lunch you will have the occasion to admire the
nature or, according to you wish, to cross Snagov Lake by boat (optionally) up to an island where you can visit
the Snagov Monastery. Visitors come here to seek the tomb of Dracula sitting in the front of the church altar.
Vlad's murder is believed to have occurred in the forests nearby, where the monks took his body, since both
Vlad and his father had both given money to the monastery. Leter, we will rejoin our tour and pay a visit to
Tiganesti Monastery, than you will follow your way to Bucharest, after you spend a full pleasant day. The tour
ends at the hotel.
Note: The trip to Snagov Monastery by boat will not be possible in adverse weather conditions.
For booking please click on Hotel
Accommodation / Tours Registration Form.
THE MOST IMPORTANT ROMANIAN TOURS
PRAHOVA VALLEY TOUR (2 days)
Period: 26th - 27th of May 2012
Rate: 285 EURO/person in double room
The rate is calculated for minimum 10 persons.
Route: Bucharest - Sinaia - Predeal - Brasov - Poiana Brasov - Bran – Bucharest
Services:
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transport by minibus or bus;
1 night accommodation with breakfast included in a 3 stars
hotel in Poiana Brasov;
entrance tickets at Peles Castle (Ground + First Floor),
Pelisor Castle and Bran Castle;
english speaking guide.
Services not included:
- photo and video fees;
- lunch and dinner;
- other services not specified on „Services included”.
Details:
Day 1: Bucharest – Sinaia – Predeal – Brasov – Poiana Brasov
Early in the morning, pick-up from the hotel and departure to Sinaia.
Departure for Sinaia, the pearl of the Carpathians to see one of t he
country castle: Peles, former Royal Residence, a XIXth century
German-Renaissance style palace, where the different theme rooms
will enchant you. Lunch in Sinaia at Palace Restaurant.
Departure to Brasov - sightseeing tour of Brasov, visiting the famous
Black Church (entrance optional), Scheii Brasovului (the museum of
the oldest Romanian school) with the wonderful St. Nicholas Church,
String Street, Gate and the Citadel. Accommodation in Rina Vista or
Rina Tirol Hotel in Poiana Brasov or similar. In the evening, dinner
with show in Sura Dacilor restaurant.
Day 2: Poiana Brasov- Bran - Bucharest
Breakfast at the hotel, departure to Bran, visit of Castle Bran - legendary castle of Dracula, lunch at Cheile
Gradistei Restaurant.
For booking please click on Hotel
Accommodation / Tours Registration Form.
DANUBE DELTA CRUISE ON FLOATING HOTEL (3 days)
We start cruising from Murighiol (approximately 40-km from
the capital of Tulcea County). We make our way downstream or
upstream on wider, sunny canals or smaller tributaries
shadowed by the dense vegetation on board of our floating
hotel Delta Explorer. We experience the beauty of the
landscape, explore the flooded woodlands of willow and poplar,
the paradise of birds and the kingdom of ‘plaur' – flooded islets
made of reeds and accessible to only few privileged visitors and
have fun at the camp fire or picturesque lunch or dinner.
Period: 25th - 27th of May 2012
Rates: 550 EURO/person
The cruises are valid for a group of minimum 10 persons.
Route: Bucharest – Tulcea (Murighiol) – Bucharest
Services included:
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2 nights accommodation on the floatig hotel, Delta Exlorer 4* or similar;
full board during cruise (2 breakfasts; 2 lunches and 2 dinners);
specialized guide during the cruise;
transfer Bucharest-Murighiol and Murighiol-Bucharest;
transfer from Murighiol to the floating hotel;
motor boat trips as in the intinerary;
transport by bus or minibus;
driver.
Services not included:
-
special permits for fishing in Danube Delta;
other services not specified on „Services included”.
Details:
Day 1: Bucharest – Tulcea (Murighiol)
Pick up from your location in Bucharest and departure to Tulcea – Murighiol (starting point). Transfer by motor
boats from Murighiol to the floating hotel – Delta Elxporer.
Boarding and check in. Welcome to dinner. Meanwhile, through the
crepuscular light of the sunset, we make our way along the Sfantu
Gheorghe branch to meet one of the few natural canals of the area
- Perivolovca - where we drop the anchor and spend the night near
the poplar forest.
The floating hotel 4* have a maximum capacity of 9 double cabins,
each with air conditioned, and private shower and toilet.
Restaurant and bar are situated at the upper level of the floating
hotels both being fully equipped and air conditioned.
Day 2: Danube Delta
Early breakfast for fishermen and boarding in the motor boats for
the optional program of fishing. The other guests will serve
breakfast during the trip made by the floating hotel on Garla
Perivolovca, after that they will embark too in the motor boats for visiting the reservation. Taranova,
Gorgostel, Chiril, Isaac, Dubcova and many others from a large ‘necklace' of lakes which are always a resting or
feeding place for colonies of swans, pelicans and cormorants. We'll visit the lakes and notice that its fish is
shared between the fishermen and birds. After visiting some traditional fishing settlements we'll return to the
floating hotel have lunch and head upstream on Sfantu Gheorghe branch. Farewell dinner on board the floating
hotel.
Day 3: Tulcea (Murighiol) – Bucharest
After the early breakfast the fishermen can go on the lakes, while the floating hotel will sail upstream towards
Murighiol, the final destination of our journey. We will serve lunch around 2:00 PM and we will then say
goodbye. Transfer to Tulcea, and then to Bucharest.
For booking please click on Hotel
Accommodation / Tours Registration Form.
BUCOVINA TOUR – THE PAINTED MONASTERIES (4 days)
Period: 26th - 29th of May 2012
Rate: 395 EURO/person in double room
The rate is calculated for minimum 10 persons.
Route: Bucharest – Gura Humorului – Moldovita – Sucevita – Putna – Suceava – Neamt – Bucharest
Services included:
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3 nights accommodation with breakfast included at Casa Elena Complex 4* or similar in Voronet;
specialized guides during the tours;
transport by bus or minibus;
driver.
Services not included:
- lunches and dinners;
- entrance tickets and photo/video tax;
other services not specified on „Services included”.
Details:
Day 1: Bucharest – Gura Humorului (Voronet)
In the morning our guide will pick-up you from your hotel. Leave
Bucharest in our way to the north region of Romania – Bucovina, the land of painted monasteries and
traditions. There is about 8 hours drive time until our destination. End the day in the Voronet – Gura Humorului
area. Accomodation at Vornet at Casa Elena Complex 4* or similar.
Day 2: Gura Humorului – Moldovita – Sucevita – Putna – Gura Humorului
Breakfast early in the morning.
Today we’ll visit some of the World famous Painted Monasteries
- Moldovita (UNESCO): dates back from 1532 and is due to the ruling prince Petru
Rares. It has the aspect of a fortress, with imposing towers and high, thick walls. It
Is decorated with scenes from the 16th century Moldavian life. You can see here the
best preserved frescoes, with fresh and vivid colors.
- Sucevita: the last and the most magnificent monastic achievement among the
painted monasteries in Bucovina, looks as a real fortress, with towers, buttresses
and watch roads. Built in 1581, by one bishop, it was dedicated to the Assumption
in 1584. Paintings of the Sucevita monastery were best preserved both on the
outside and on the inside (Ladder of Virtue, the last Judgment, the tree of Jesse)
- Putna: The beginnings of Putna Monastery, take us back to the year 1466 when,
upon the initiative of Stefan cel Mare, a church of impressive dimensions was built
on a patch of forest cleared for the purpose. The edifice was erected among 1466
and 1469 and consecrated in 1470. Miniature painters, many embroiderers, icon
makers, weavers, silversmiths, sculptors in wood and book-binders toiled on in the
quiet atmosphere of the monks' cells at Putna. Accomodation at Vornet at Casa Elena Complex 4* or similar.
Day 3: Gura Humorului – Suceava – Gura Humorului
Breakfast and continue the visits to the Bucovina County.
- Voronet Monastery (UNESCO): founded in 1488 by Stefan cel Mare. The doors of the porch have a Renaissance
framing, whereas the stone carvings of the broken arches at the doors and windows belong to the Gothic style.
Voronet Monastery had been dubbed the oriental Sistine Chapel , whereas Voronet Blue, a color obtained from
lapis lazuli, entered in the lexicon of art alongside Titian red and Veronese green, and to this day has yet to be
reproduced by natural means.
- Humor (UNESCO): dates from 1530, this monastery was among the first churches to be painted, the frescoes
were painted in 1535. Humor is painted in reddish brown (from oriental madder pigment), colors are brilliant
and truthful to nature.
Than go to Suceava, the former capital of Moldova in medieval ages. Here we visit Suceava Citadel, which was
built during the rule of the Prince Petru I Musat (1375-1391), having 10 m high and 2 m thick defense walls and
a defense tower in every corner, the entrance into the citadel being realized by crossing a bridge with piers.
Here died Stefan cel Mare.
End the day back in Voronet or Gura Humorului. Accomodation at Vornet at Casa Elena Complex 4* or similar.
Day 4: Gura Humorului – Neamt – Bucuresti
Breakfast early in the morning. Leave the Bucovina area and we are going on the route to visit the Neamt
Citadel, one of the oldest and most important medieval fortresses from Romania. The citadel was built in 14 t h
century on a high cliff assuring a perfect defensive location. Recently restored the Neamt Citadel present to its
visitors the old defensive system and an interesting medieval collection. In the afternoon arrive in Bucharest.
For booking please click on Hotel
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Accommodation / Tours Registration Form.
All the tours could be of mixed nationality.
Prices are based on 2 passengers sharing a standard twin room.
All prices are subject to availability and can change with out prior notice.
Room upgrades can be arranged and extra nights can be added for an additional cost; single rooms and
regional flights are also available at a supplement.
The Bucharest Sightseeing tours are available for any other dates on the entire period of the Congress
for accompanying persons.
All tours are customizable, depending on your preference so please contact us for details at
incom12@anchor-travel.ro.