BEARS, WOLVES AND FORTIFICATIONS FOR THE LESS ACTIVE

Between breakfast and lunch we pick you up from your hotel and drive app. 40min to Dumbravita Fish Farm. This is a Ramsar protected area for birds, also known as The Danube Delta in the Carpathians due to the high number of wetland species that inhabit it from spring until late fall. Your guide will facilitate the entrance in the farm and introduce you to the various birds that inhabit this place.
After this bird watching activity we’ll drive to Rasnov medieval citadel for an interesting tour of this fortress (if open for visits).
In the afternoon we drive towards Sinca Noua Village and have an early dinner  (included). After dinner we drive about 20 minutes to a first wildlife hide in the area (the “wildest-looking” hide we use). This is a facility where wild bears used to be attracted with food for observations. Formerly a hunting hide, bears have been used for a long time to come here for a “snack”, which makes the success rate very high.

After breakfast we pick you up from your hotel and drive you to Viscri, a small Transylvanian village known for its fortified church part of the UNESCO World Heritage list and for the fact that Prince Charles of Wales has bought and restored an 18th century Saxon house to help protect the unique way of life that has existed for hundreds of years and promote sustainable tourism. If available, you’ll visit the church and a local blacksmith to see how horseshoes were made in the old days.
Afterwards we drive a bit more to Sighisoara. Sighisoara is considered by some people to be the most beautiful and well preserved inhabited citadel in Europe, with authentic medieval architecture. In Eastern Europe, Sighisoara is one of the few fortified towns that are still inhabited. We’ll first have lunch in a local restaurant (included), then visit this beautiful fortification.
Late in the evening we drive you back to your hotel for dinner (not included) and a well-deserved sleep.

At app. 9am we pick you up from your hotel and drive to the Bear Sanctuary in Zarnesti and have a tour of this great place where rescued bears spend the rest of their lives in large enclosures, with good food and warm people taking care of them. There is also a good chance to see wolves here as well, as the Sanctuary is also home for several grey wolves who found here a great home.
Later we drive to Bran Castle, famous for being Bram Stoker’s character Dracula’s domain. We’ll have first lunch in a local restaurant (included), then visit this interesting castle, formerly customs point between Wallachia and Transylvania.
Late afternoon we drive to Prejmer fortification (another point on the UNESCO World Heritage list), then visit another wildlife hide. This hide is the closest to Brasov, so this evening you’ll have enough time to rest before your departure the next day.

Depending on the time of your flight we may take some time in the morning to walk in the medieval center of Brasov, with the Black Church and the Rope Street, then drive to your take-off airport.