includes all ground transport, all 8 nights hotel accommodations, breakfasts and dinners, entrance-fees at tourist sites, guides, and drinking water.
The price is based on double occupancy. A single supplement of $230 applies.
The trip will be limited to 8 participants.
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Mehedinti means first of all nature; a nature at its peak, diverse and spectacular; from the Danube which winds in the south, passing progressively to the terraces and valleys and then to the mountains with their caves and quays, forests and animals, clearings and rivers. First we will watch the natural narrow path of the Danube, to the Bulgarian and Serbian borders- a place of grand landscapes and fishing sceneries. Then we will pass by the countless viaducts in order to get to the banks of the Cerna bay, in some picturesque settlements where we could go fishing with the local fishermen in their wooden boats. By taking the boat we could also visit the Simian Island where the fortress of the former Adam-Kaleh Island- sunk in the Danube because of the building of a huge hydroelectric plant during the communist regime- was displaced. From the banks, we could see the sunken ruins of the villages covered by water. |
Nowadays the few walls of some churches or houses represent a sad testimony of what was there once. In the same area we will visit the beautiful monasteries of Sfanta Ana, Strehaia (1645) and Gura Motrului.We will go North in the mountains where we will visit the city of Baia de Arama, with its hundreds of year-old houses and churches. We will pass through the Topolnita quays and visit the cave, one of the longest (15 km) and most beautiful in the world with its bridges, columns and karsts lakes. In its northern part there is the Hall of Bears (Sala Ursilor) where many skeletons of cave bears are fixed in white crystals.In the village we will find the small hermitage from 1646. Here, and in every village we will pass through, we will meet hospitable people, eager to join us and show their world to us.
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We will see them going to church in groups, talking outside their houses or milking the cows. We will see children watching the sheep, peasants mowing on the hills and women cooking in big cast-iron kettles in their yards. We will cross the natural bridge of 61 m long (God’s bridge, as the locals call it) and enter the cave nearby. Above it, there is a wonderful limestone plateau, eroded by water throughout the centuries that creates a rare and spectacular lapis landscapes. Within this area we will see some natural reservations- Svinita, with its fossils of huge snails from the Jurassic, preserved in the limestone, the lilac forest at Ponoarele, the cave and the lake at Zaton, as well as another lapis area.
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