It’s a tour for birders willing to see as many birds species as possible, in the most famous birding areas in Romania: Dobrudja and the Danube Delta.

The tour start/end in: Bucharest, Romania.

It is on of our most requested program, due to the well designed routes every day and the high comfort of the tour. You’ll have only 2 accommodations (one on mainland, one into the Danube Delta) so will not be necessary to carry all your baggage every day.

The tour description:

The tour it’s starting in Bucharest Henri Coanda Airport (BUH). Meeting time is 15:00 so please be sure you can arrive before this time. If you are already in Bucharest, we can pick-you up from the entrance on the A2 highway (we’ll send you a GPS point).

The tour is ending also in Bucharest Airport, also at 15:00 so please book you departure flights later then 17:00 on Day 7.

The day tours takes all day. We depart in the morning (early) and end in the evening. We try to show you a good part of the good places for birding, along with spectacular landscapes af this area.

We do this tour with up to 6 persons (6 clients + guide).

Expected birds:

Depending by the season, in Dobrudja and the Danube Delta, you can see different species of birds. Please download the list from here: Birds list of Dobruja and the Danube Delta. To see what to expect when you want to come.

The tour cover almost all kind of habitats in Dobrudja and the Danube Delta, the list of birds expected here si +150 species and we’ll try to show you why this area is so famous, with large numbers of birds of common species along with rare and very rare species.

Our highlights:

• The best team of guides in Danube Delta, with experience in this field since 2004
• Specialized bird watching guide
• We are on the water and the field at the best time
• We have boats built specifically for tours, stable and close to the water
• We have good cars and drivers, with all the comfort
• We are always in Danube Delta and Dobrudja, we have new information daily, where the birds and animals are
• Very good conditions for accommodation and meals

The program is as follows:

Day 1: At 15:00 meeting in Bucharest Airport (we’ll send you the place very detailed). At 15:30 we depart from the Airport and head to Dobrudja. In Dobrudja, after we leave the highway, we’ll stop in some good places to see the first birds. Accommodation we’ll be in Dobrudja, for the first 3 nights. They we’ll wait for us with a good dinner.

Day 2: Early in the morning, we depart for the first day birding trip,this day we’ll have some sessions of walk into the forests or on the mountains (easy trails) so please ware comfortable trekking shoes.

We’ll have the breakfast with us (to go) and we’ll eat in a nice place, searching also for some birds). The lunch will be in a local restaurant, dinner to the accommodation.

Day 3: Today we head to South, to the sea shore and we stop from place to place (good places!) to scan the shores for all kind of birds. It will be a very LONG day.

Here are 2 of the best birding places in the area so we’ll push to see both, even if will be very tiring, for sure it will worth.

The same as Day 2 about the meals.

Day 4: This is a special day, we’ll have half on dry land, half on water. We’ll see a special area, with salty lakes and other nice places. At lunch time we’ll head to Tulcea, take lunch and go to the boat for the transfer to Mila23, the next part of our program. From now, we’ll be only on the boat for trips.

The transfer takes about 4 hours (we are not in a hurry), we do the transfer in very low speed, searching for birds. Our route cross very nice areas, with many birds. In the evening we’ll be in Mila23, in the middle of the Danube Delta, here will be your accommodation for the next 3 nights. They’ll wait for us with a traditional fisherman meal.

Day 5: We’ll have 2 tours today. First starts one hour before sunrise and we come back at noon to the pension for lunch and some rest time, then we’ll take another tour, in the evening. As you can imagine, today is the PELICANS AND WATER BIRDS DAY. 

Breakfast is again to go, lunch and dinner to the accommodation place.

Day 6: Today we’ll have a longer tour. We start again very early, befor esunrise and slowly drive to Letea, in the North of the Danube Delta, over the North Lakes where usualy we find a lot of Pelicans and Pallas’s Gulls. In Letea we’ll have the lunch and we’ll search for good birds in a different habitat then before.

This is a BIRDS DAY, all kind of birds will be in our way beacuse we’ll cross marshlands, sandy chanels, shallow lakes, waterlilies beds, small chanels, large channels. We’ll be back home late in the evening.

Day 7: After a relaxed breakfast (7:00 am), this time without sunrise session, we will backtrack our way to Tulcea (8:00 am), but now, in the morning, we will have the best light for this route. Around 10:30 we’ll be in Tulcea and have the transfer, by car, to Bucharest Airport. At 15:00 we drop you to the Airport and end our tour.

Accommodation:

We’ll accommodate you in 3* local pensions, in double rooms, with bathrooms en suite. We collaborate with the best local pensions and restaurants / households.

Meals:

All meals (3 meals/day: breakfast, lunch, dinner) are included. Every lunch and dinner is an authentic local experience.

The car:

Up to 3 persons, we’ll use a regular car, for 4-6 pers, we’ll use an 8 places minivan.

The cars are used only for transporting people, with all technical inspections to date, equipped with season tires. The drivers are chosen very carefully, are only people from our team.

The boat:

We are using for this birdwatching tour has been built specifically for this activity and it’s not an adaptation of a boat for other activities. The boat is very stable, it has a lot of room, equipped with beches with backrests and pillows.

All turists will be sitting on the benches facing the direction of travel, with a very high freedom of movement and the field of view unobstructed.