Enjoy in an intimate background of one of the experiences our clients reviewed as “the best trip to do to the Danube Delta”. Combines the Danube Delta’s nature, the kingdom of waters, with the most interesting dry land, Letea Sand Island, with one of the most preserved traditional villages, with a very special forest, with wild horses and delicious traditional meals.
This is a PRIVATE program, you’ll have a boat and a guide only for your trip.
Tulcea – Mila 23 – Letea trip – about 10 hours
Departing from Tulcea on the Danube’s Tulcea Branch, you’ll enter in the Danube Delta after 15 minutes. From there, a chain of small channels and lakes will take you SLOWLY, to Mila23, visiting some interesting parts of the Danube Delta. You’ll stop in Mila23 Village for a coffee then depart on another route over wild lakes and channels until Letea Village. From here you’ll be taken by a safari car (optional) and go to visit Letea Forest, the Northernmost subtropical forest in Europe. You can see wild horses, oaks grown on salty sand and other attractions of the place (depending on the season).
In Letea you can visit the village, you can have a traditional lunch based on local freshwater fish (optional) at a local, authentic household. After lunch you’ll return to Tulcea, mostly on the same route as the arrival one, but we assure you that in the opposite direction, everything looks completely different.
Timing:
Tulcea – Mila23 – about 2.5h; Mila23-Letea – about 2h; Forest Visit – about 1.5h; Lunch – about 1h; Return – about 3h
The price of this trips is:
- 1-5 persons group – 400 euro/boat (7 persons boat)
- 6-10 persons group – 550 euro/boat (12 persons boat)
The recommended departure time is 8:00-9:00 AM.
Additional costs:
Lunch can be taken at a local household. Here they cook on a menu of the day the system, the same menu for everyone, based on fish. If you want to book the lunch, let the guide know this on the morning of departure.
This is NOT a restaurant, no orders can be made upon arrival.
Menu price is of 15 euro/person, payment is made in cash, directly at the household.
Letea forest visit: You will go with a safari car until you enter the forest and from there by foot in the strictly protected area.
- EURO 7/person if the group is of at least 5 persons or if there is the possibility of joining another group.
- EURO 35/car for a group of less than 5 persons, without joining to another group. The payment will be made in cash, directly to the driver.
Details
The boat
This trip is done with an OPEN BOAT
The boat looks like in the photos on the website. The speed for our trips is low/medium, our boats are NOT speed boats. These are boats manufactured according to our concept.
All our boats have benches and backrests for a maxim comfort. Every person on the boat will receive a life jacket, mandatory to wear it during the boat trip. We want to show you the beauties of the Danube Delta, to see birds in flight and flocks of pelicans soaring.
- For groups of up to 6 persons we will use a 7- seats boat (6 tourists, the guide and the driver)
- For groups of 7-10 persons we will use a 12 – seats boat (10 tourists, the guide and the driver)
- For groups larger than 11 persons we can use 2 or more boats
Personal equipment
- Long pants and blouses with long sleeves to protect you from the sun
- Sun hat (not cap)
- Sunglasses
- Jacket
- Raincoat
Please take these recommendations very seriously, the weather in the Danube Delta can be very capricious and you may suffer if you are not well protected.