Cooking and Cultural Trip to Romania

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Come to Romania to enjoy the real life of this beautiful country. You’ll meet local people, have the chance to see and feel how they live, what they cook. Romania is an interesting country. We are at the Eastern border of Europe, having in our cuisine influences from the Orient but also Western ones. For example, you will find here the famous Mediterranean “sarma” (to be found in Turkey and Greece) but in a Romanian version. This means that we do not use vine leaves, but sour cabbage instead; we do not fill it with rice, but with pork meat; it is not an appetizer, but a main course and we can tell that the taste is wonderful! Come and meet our mixed culture, our orthodox world and our pre-Christian traditions.

You’ll receive a Romanian cookbook in English with recipes that you will cook yourself and we guarantee you will not have the same food twice in your meals. You’ll visit three most important regions in Romania and enjoy one full day in each region with the locals.

1 ^st Day

Arrival in Romania

Included highlights:

Arrival in Bucharest,
Welcome cocktail, briefing, dinner
Check-in.

Included meals:

Dinner

2 ^nd Day

Discover the European capital of culture in 2007

Included highlights:

Short sightseeing of Bucharest
Departure to Sibiu
See the most beautiful orthodox monastery in Wallachia, Curtea de Arges monastery.
Short city tour of Sibiu, an important cultural center in Romania, which was chosen to be the European capital of culture in 2007.
Dinner and accommodation.

Included meals:

Breakfast
Dinner

3 ^rd Day

Your first encounter with the local life

Included highlights:

Take part at the orthodox service in the village.
Take part at the cooking process itself. You will be divided in 2 teams, each team will have to go to a hostess and cook a menu, different from each other. After the service, each team will go and eat what the others have cooked. You’ll learn how to make:

- Dumplings soup/ Noodles soup
- Eggplant Salad / Baked peppers salad
- Romanian stew / Ragout
- Romanian cheese pie/ Crunchies

Paint icons on glass
Return to Sibiu
Light dinner

Included meals:

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

4 ^th Day

Let's go to Bucovina

Included highlights:

Depart early in the morning
Reach the Northern region of Romania called Bucovina, over Cluj and Bistrita,
Have the chance to visit at least one of the famous UNESCO painted monasteries from 16th century.
Dinner and check-in.

Included meals:

Breakfast
Dinner

5 ^th Day

Learning how to cook local food

Included highlights:

Go to a local family and learn how to cook local food. You will cook:

- Mushroom soup/ Local chicken soup with garlic
- The famous “sarmale”/ Chicken with sour cream
- 2 different local cakes “papanasi” (a kind of donuts) and “poale in briu”

Swap and taste what the others have cooked for you.
Learn how to paint the famous Easter eggs from Bucovina.

Included meals:

Breakfast
Lunch

6 ^th Day

Head back to the Southern Romania

Included highlights:

Head back to the Southern Romania, over Bicaz Gorge
Visit the famous UNESCO citadel in Transylvania, Sighisoara,
Reach the Brasov region.
Visit Brasov with its famous Black Church.
Arrive to our hostesses.

Included meals:

Breakfast

7 ^th Day

A new cooking lesson

Included highlights:

Today you’ll learn how to cook:

Meatballs in soup and a special salad (salata a la boef)
A special dish based on fish (saramura de peste) with corn mush and “plachie de peste” another dish based on fish
Famous local cake (cozonac) and Romanian pancakes with different fillings. In the afternoon we’ll visit the Dracula Castle.

Included meals:

Breakfast
Lunch

8 ^th Day

Get some experience of a professional chef

Included highlights:

Departure to Bucharest, through Sinaia
Stop to visit the Peles Castle.
Visit the kitchen of the most famous Restaurant in Bucharest - Jaristea, and get some experience of a professional chef.
Dinner.

Included meals:

Breakfast
Dinner

9 ^th Day

Departure home

Included highlights:

Sightseeing of Bucharest
Depart to the airport
Fly back home.

Included meals:

Breakfast

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Hi, Natalia! I contact you in order to thank you for your help, guidance & company while i was in your country. I will have to say, i did particularly love being with you, on those 2 trips i made. If you don’t mind me saying so, i think you are a lovely & charming person, and it was a great pleasure for me to meet you.

Dear Victoria,

I personally want to thank you for such a great trip through these beautiful places. I enjoyed seeing the changes and modernization of Romania but I found that Moldova has a special charm and I enjoyed the atmosphere and the people. I was very happy with the way you introduced the tour to us and everything was wonderful the food, wine, accommodation.

Thanks again for everything you did to make our trip so nice.

Dear Victoria!

There are not enough adjectives in the world to describe adeguately the experience of doing a visit with you! You certainly have enhanced my appreciation of your country. I learnt a lot from you on many different levels. Your organizational skills are extraordinary and Explore will definitely receive extremely positive feedback. We were very lucky to have you with us during this short trip.

Thank you once again for all you did so beautifully with grace, humor and smile. I wish you all and only the very best for now and for the future.