Explore mythical country of the forest of Transylvania and legend of Dracula. Discover the gay scene in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and Sibiu. Rugged stone churches and dazzling monasteries dot a pristine landscape of rocky mountains and rolling hills. Transylvanian towns have stepped out of time, while vibrant Bucharest is all energy. The Carpathian Mountains draw a wide arc through the centre of the country, leaving a swath of exposed rocky peaks surrounded by groves of pine and deciduous trees, and stretches of bright green meadow below. Transylvania, the land that gave us Dracula, has no shortage of jaw-dropping castles pitched precariously on rocky hilltops.
• Individual & Small Group suggested tour
• Featuring: Bucharest - Sibiu - Alba Iulia - Turda - Lake Colibita - Biertan - Sighi?oara - Bran Castle - Bra?ov - Peles Castle - Sinaia
• Live the vibrant LGBT atmosphere of Bucharest, the "Little Paris of the East"
• Fell the chills on your skin while entering in Transylvania
• Explore Sibiu, the European Capital of Culture in 2007
• Walk through Sighisoara, the birthplace of Count Dracula
• Admire the worldwide famous Castles of Bran and Peles
• Enter the Biertan Fortified Church
• LGBT Friendly Tour Guide for Gaily Tours and Excursions
Day 1 - • Arrival transfer from airport to your hotel.
• Accommodation and free time for shopping and dinner.
• Overnight at your hotel.
The capital and largest city of Romania. Bucharest is home to around 2 million people making it the sixth largest city in the European Union. Famously the residence of Vlad the Impaler, Bucharest’s history is as turbulent as it is interesting. This is reflected in its architecture as traditional Ottoman religious buildings vie for attention with beautiful Art Nouveau buildings, while communist monstrosities are an eye-saw for everyone.
Despite its size, Bucharest has very few exclusively gay venues, though gay tourists will find enough activities to occupy their time. The hipster Floreasca area, although not gay-specific, has a wide selection of LGBT-friendly bars, all seemingly in competition to see who can be the quirkiest.
Day 2 - • Buffet Breakfast and be ready for an extraordinary LGBT Friendly walking tour of Bucharest. • Meeting with your Tour Guide at the Revolution Square and then you will proceed to Cotroceni Quarter for its representative architecture, a guided tour of the Palace of the Parliament and of the main avenues. • Lunch on your own. free time in the afternoon for individual visits and shopping. • Dinner on your own and overnight at your hotel in Bucharest.
Day 3 - • Buffet Breakfast and departure by Car or Minibus to the town of Curtea de Arges, with an ancient history that continues to live thanks to its buildings of the fourteenth century. • We continue to discover the Vale of the river Olt (the fourth longest in the country) and the Cozia Monastery where, down the steps you can admire the river, and raising your eyes, you can admire the majesty of the Carpathian mountains. • Lunch on your own. • Then continue to Sibiu, the chief city of the Transylvanian Germans. • Enjoy a LGBT Friendly Walking Tour, admiring the Baroque Brukenthal Palace assembled by Baron Bruckenthal, Governor of Transylvania at the beginning of the 19th century. • Next is the Evangelical Cathedral completed in its actual shape in 1520, but inside there is an exquisite fresco of the Crucifixion on the north wall of the choir dating from 1445. • Dinner on your own and overnight at your hotel in Sibiu.
Day 4 - • Buffet Breakfast and departure by Car or Minibus to the city of Alba Iulia, famous for the extraordinary artistic and cultural heritage that has accompanied it since the domination of Rome through the Middle Ages and until the construction of the eighteenth-century fortress that can still be seen today. • Free time to explore the city and lunch on your own. • Afterwards continue to the impressive salt mine of Turda, one of the most beautiful in Europe. • Lunch on your own. • Then you get to Cluj Napoca, the former capital of Transylvania and one of the important university centers of the country. • Enjoy a special LGBT Friendly guided tour, including St Michael’s Cathedral, the Fellner & Helmer Opera House as well as the City Hall and Old Center. • Dinner on your own and overnight stay at your hotel in Cluj Napoca.
Day 5 - • Buffet Breakfast and departure by Car or Minibus to Lake Colibita. • Among the sites that bind to the myth of Dracula can not miss the town of Bistrita, in the northern part of Transylvania, where the writer Bram Stroker spent the night at the protagonist of the novel Jonathan Harker before continuing his journey to the castle of Dracula. • Lunch on your own during the itinerary. • Arrival in the afternoon at Lake Colibita known for its length and natural beauties, then free time to walk through the city of Bistrita. • Dinner on your own and overnight at your hotel in Bistrita.
Day 6 - • Buffet Breakfast and departure by Car or Minibus to Targu-Mures is a small jewel that shows the traces of a difficult past that has greatly influenced its evolution. Perhaps the most evocative place is the citadel built at the beginning of the seventeenth century with a 900 m long brick wall protected by seven bastions of about 10 m in height bearing the names of the ancient guilds. • Lunch on your own. • Continue to the Biertan Fortress, included in the Unesco World Heritage, with the fortified church of Biertan which is a true jewel of Saxon architecture. Three city walls surround the Protestant church that stands on top of a hill. Interesting and the marriage prison: here they were locked up in the same cell and kept to the bread and water the spouses who wanted to separate until the reconciliation took place. • Afterwards transfer to Sighisoara, known as "The Pearl of Transylvania". Enjoy a walking tour with LGBT Friendly Tour Guide. The city was developed by the German settlers as of late 12th century. It stands on a network of tunnels and catacombs and, according to one version of the myth; this is where the Pied Piper brought the children of Hamelin after their ungrateful parents refused to pay him his due. • Your walking tour includes the two squares of the Citadel (Upper Town), the Scholars' Staircase, the House with Antler, the Tower with Clock (climb up for a great view), the Torture Chamber and the Weapon Museum. Sighisoara is the place where the Vlad the Impaler Dracula was born in 1431. The Birthplace is one of the main tourist attractions. • Dinner on your own and overnight at your hotel in Sighisoara.
Day 7 - • Buffet Breakfast and departure by Car or Minibus to Bran Castle also known as Dracula Castle. The castle was built in 1377 to safeguard the trading route between Transylvania and Wallachia, enlarged and restored a few times to become a royal residence in the 1920s. • Lunch on your own. • Then continue to Brasov, one of the most beautiful multicultural cities of our country, located in Transylvania. • Start your LGBT Friendly walking tour where you will see the Council Square, the Council Tower, the Black Church, Torre Ecaterina, the Black and White Tower and the ancient area of the city called Schei, where the Romanians lived from long ago. • Dinner on your own and overnight at your hotel in Brasov.
Day 8 - • Buffet Breakfast and departure by Car or Minibus to Rasnov Fortress, the most famous and one of the best preserved Saxon fortresses from Transylvania, built to defend and control the trade route that connected the Transylvanian and Valachian regions. • From here you can admire a beautiful panorama with the surroundings of Rasnov and Brasov. • The tour continues to Peles Castle, Sinaia Monastery and Snagov Monastery. • Once you arrived in this area, lunch on your own. • In Snagov Monastery it is believed that Vlad the Impaler (the son of Vlad Dracul) was buried. The monastery was built strategically in the middle of Lake Snagov, on the island of the same name. Inside is the largest medieval wall painting in a Romanian church, built in the 16th century. • Continue then to Bucharest.
• Dinner on your own and overnight at your hotel in Bucharest.
Day 9 - • Breakfast in the hotel and transfer to the Bucharest airport.
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