If you’re looking for an original Romanian vegan experience with traditional food, look no more. You have the opportunity to meet some of the coolest locals, while they cook dinner for you, in an awesome location. Bucharest loves food in its own way. From the basic family lunch to the most sophisticated dining, every meal is a quest for satisfaction. Local habits will provide a lot of diverse home cooked dishes based on traditional recipes.
Romanian cuisine is changing, innovating, bringing in a new funnier, crazier twist to old recipes and is reinterpreted in a modern manner.
All meals are prepared with high quality local ingredients, whenever possible organically sourced, by two creative cooks, Bucharest locals, with background in the communication business and a big passion for food and almost anything food related.
They love to share their passion and knowledge with their guest and maybe you can even steal some cooking tricks/ideas from them too.
You will usually be treated with a first course, which depending on the season can vary from hearty hot soup/ciorba during the colder months and lighter traditional assortment of salads and traditional appetizers, a main course and for sure a homemade delicious dessert.
Allergen free (gluten, lactose, nuts and so on) dishes available on request.
Alternative Bucharest will explore the many different aspects of street art and urban culture alongside the history of the city.
Enjoy a journey in time as you witness the city and all it's magnificent landscapes and locations that tell a story about how it came to be and where it might be headed to.
Explore an indoor street-art exhibition, located inside a very modernist multi-story parking building. Experience the unique opportunity to visit the workshop of Pegas, a famous local vintage bike brand.
Continue your journey to the Street Delivery Festival, a symbolic gathering of civil society activists. One of their main mission is to transform the city into a better living space for humans, rather than cars and also to promote the street art movement in a country where it's still largely frowned upon.
Discover one of Bucharest's untouched areas, where it feels as if time stood still. It is also a location where you will explore the history of the city and its urban development: from its humble beginnings to its avant-garde architecture of the inter-war period.
We continue on a public bus from East to West, where you will witness more spectacular street-art as well as enjoy a walk through the oldest park of the city and its very interesting surroundings. Conclude the tour in one of Bucharest's secret gardens.
A 3-hour guided walking tour of the beautiful capital of Romania, Bucharest. Known as "the little Paris of the Balkans" before WWII, famous for its beautiful palaces, wide boulevards, large parks, and many pristine churches, the capital of Romania underwent many changes during the Communist period which ultimately altered its architectural landscape and led to sometimes chaotic urban planning.
Today, Bucharest is a bustling city of many contrasts, that managed to somehow harmonize all these eclectic influences into a unique and unforgettable charm. Witness firsthand this amazing mix of influences from the megalomaniac People's Palace to the classy Belle Époque palaces of former aristocrats, to the featureless Communist structures.
Walk through the city and discover its architectural highlights (Constitution Square, People's Palace, the old historical center of Bucharest, featuring Manuc's Inn, Stavropoleos Church, the Princely Court, and St. Anton Church - the oldest place of worship in Bucharest, the Romanian Savings Bank, the National History Museum, the Romanian Atheneum, Revolution Square, the Former Royal Palace, followed by the National Theatre and University Square). Opportunities for lunch are abundant in the Old City as the area has been close to fully refurbished. Coffee and refreshments are also available, and so are typical Romanian souvenirs. If visit the Romanian Metropolitan Church, a 17th century Orthodox church.
Constitution Square, People's Palace, the old historical center of Bucharest, featuring Manuc's Inn, Stavropoleos Church, the Princely Court, and St. Anton Church - the oldest place of worship in Bucharest, the Romanian Savings Bank, the National History Museum, the Romanian Atheneum, Revolution Square, the Former Royal Palace, followed by the National Theatre, the Intercontinental, and University Square.
Este abono de ciudad incluye la oferta cultural de la ciudad de manera integrada: 10 visitas a los museos gratis, 2 días gratis de transporte en metro, descuentos en 23 bares y restaurantes.
Active Trekking day Tour in Piatra Craiului National Park - medium trek
Highlights: Piatra Craiului National Park, Curmatura hut, Zarnesti Gorges.
Duration 6-8 hours, medium, excellent view throughout the day, uphill/downhill walk 700 m/700 m.
Piatra Craiului National Park, crossing Zarnesti Gorges. Visit two of the most authentic mountain villages: Pestera & Magura.
Between June and September, we make a stop to an authentic sheep farm.
The route might be changed due to weather conditions.
Points of interest/ itinerary
Piatra Craiului National Park, Curmatura hut, Zarnesti Gorges
With an original concept, combining fine steak dinning with a jazz and blues musical experience, Red Angus Steakhouse is THE casual dining American Restaurant located in the most picturesque and relaxed area of the Old Town Bucharest, viewing the Old Court Museum and Vlad The Impeller’s Statue, next to the very well-known St. Anton Church.
We invite you to taste the legendary tender steaks, made of certified Australian and South American beef, with an authentic and creative décor emphasized by classical American symbols, and a professional, but friendly service.
The variety of products is based on delicious dishes, such as grilled beef steaks, roasted marrow bones, fresh salads, traditional BBQ pork spare ribs, burger collection and homemade desserts.
Come on in, and enjoy an environment location, a personalized product dedicated to those people who appreciate natural and simple things. Every single element was carefully chosen by our designer team and has a story behind it. We recreated a barn build up from reused materials, enriched with classic American symbols. The bricks and wood are recovered from old houses dating back to XIX century, unique bar seats which are original saddles, bought from cowboys in the USA. Authentic American pinball, limited Harley Davidson edition of Stern producer, lighting bulbs made of Vespa and tractor headlights.
To all these, we add the best live jazz & blues in town, provided by Ellie Haddad from Lebanon, singing at The Red Angus every Wednesday to Saturday night.
This tour is a part of the Urban Adventures Home Cooked series and aims to give you one of the richest travelling experiences you can ever have – the opportunity to enjoy a meal with a family in a local home. Your local hosts speak English well, so you won’t need sign language to understand each other!
The aim is for you to experience life exactly how it is in Bucharest. It is the chance for you to hang out with everyday locals, and get to know Romanian culture through their eyes, and their food. Could there be a more perfect way to get to know local life in Bucharest? We don’t think so. You will be met at the meeting point by one of the family who speaks English. We’ll head back to your hosts’ home, and after you’re introduced; it’s time to get our chef hats on!
In terms of the cooking, you can do as much or as little as you like. If you want to learn some Romanian cooking techniques and recipes, this is your chance to learn from a local. They will be happy to show you the ropes. But if you want to just sit back, chat, and relax, that’s cool too. When the food is ready you will all sit down together and share the meal prepared, enjoy the conversation, or maybe you’ll even look at each other’s photographs and maybe take some more all together.
This experience is real. Our families come from all walks of life. Some you might find have a similar lifestyle to your own, whereas others might come from a very different background. This is your chance to get to know the people of Romania in their own homes – something that you certainly won’t find on every tour in Bucharest! The beauty of this project is that everyone involved in our Home Cooked Series is someone who wants to meet travellers and share experiences with them.
Extreme Zip Line is the longest and fastest zip line in Romania with a length of 340 meters (1000 feet) and a height drop of 30 meters (100 feet) which enables the riders to reach speeds up to 70 km/h while descending towards the sea shore flying above trees and Modern Beach(Constanta Beach).
The zip line is been build and operated under the European Norm 15567 which transformed this sport structure in one of the safest of its type with thousands of happy customers using it already! Extreme Zip Line is the place where you will experience the speed and thrills of riding a zipwire in a very secure environment were the customers are number one priority!
One of the most imposing ancient monuments in Romania, “Tropaeum Trajani” dates back to 109 AD and is a pretty unique site, in this part of Europe, located next to Adamclisi village. Just like Trajan’s Column in Rome, it represents a birth-certificate of the Romanian nation, depicting scenes from the armed conflicts between Rome and the Dacian Kingdom – Dacia.
Built at the orders of Emperor Trajan by Apolodor of Damascus, to glorify the Romans’ victories against the peoples of Scythia Minor (present-day Dobrogea), the monument was decorated with 54 metopes representing a variety of scenes from the Roman campaigns in the Danube area and was 38m high. First you will see the 1977 restored version of Adamclisi Monument and you’ll proceed then to the Adamclisi Museum to see the original parts of the monument, most of the metopes, the ornamental statues and some other relics found in the area. You continue with a visit and a wine tasting at Patrician Wine-cellar, one of the best wine-places in the county of Constanta, where some excellent wines are made using modern bio-filtering technology.
Here you will also enjoy a very authentic lunch and have the opportunity to also buy the wines you liked the most. Then, you return to Constanta and the hotel.
Meeting/ Pick up point: The clients will be picked up from their accommodation.
Duration: 5 hours 30 minutes.
Start or opening time: at 09:00 am.
Languages: Includes guide in English, or another language: German, Italian, French, Spanish, if available upon client's request.
Route: Brasov - Transfagarasan road – Poienari - Brasov (depending of the season: Transfagarasan road is open between July 1 - October 31).
The trip starts with a visit to Poienari Fortress, the real Vlad Tepes's Main Residence Castle, followed by a drive on Transfagarasan highway, built as a strategic military route, Transfagarasan Highway is the second-highest paved road (2042m) in Romania and considered by some to be the most dramatic. It runs North to South across the highest sections of the Carpathian Mountains. The road connects the historic regions of Transylvania and Wallachia.
Drive for about 2 hours from Brasov to Balea Lake, which is a natural glacier lake at 2040m altitude, 360 meters long, 240 meters wide and 11 meters deep; one of the most beautiful glacier lakes of Romania.
Stop to Balea waterfall, with its 60 meters height - one of the most impressive waterfalls in central Europe, followed by about 1 hour to Balea Lake, while taking a short walk tour in the area.
The trip is continued on the other side of the mountain passing to Vidraru dam. Next sit to visit is Poienari Castle, a climb of about 1450 steps. The trip ends with a drive back to Brasov (about 2 hours drive).