Rural Romania, the Painted Monasteries and Transylvania

Trip Dates : Thursday 12 – Sunday 22 June 2008

Trip Price : £ 1,390 per person sharing in a double/twin room
£ 130 single supplement, deposit £ 150 per person

Activity Level : 9 walking days, 2 to 7 hours daily, often on rough and stony mountain paths

Download a PDF (484 kB) with trip details

Home page        How to book      

Phone/Fax : +44-(0)1722-716 167

The mountains of Transylvania and the deep forests which surround the Orthodox painted monasteries very largely escaped the ravages of the Ceausescu era. Remote and tranquil, these areas offer walkers an experience now quite lost in western Europe – exploring on foot a landscape unchanged since the Middle Ages. In early summer the mountain meadows of Maramures are filled with wildflowers (including swathes of orchids) and horses and carts are carrying hay from first light.

Based in village farmhouses and simple hotels, we eat traditional farm cooking (organic by definition) accompanied by wines from the Black Sea and home distilled fruit brandies; visit some of the greatest examples of mediaeval Byzantine art; travel by steam train in Maramures; and explore the galleries and museums of the capital, Bucharest.