Culture and wine in Old Saxon Land

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Here we’ll enjoy the Saxon culture, cuisine, winemaking and their way of living. We’ll visit cities, villages, vineyards, citadels, different elements that describe as a whole this region of south and central Transylvania.

1 ^st Day

Arrival in Sibiu

Included highlights:

Meeting with your local guide.
Transfer to the hotel. Check-in.
Short city walking tour
Short presentation of the journey about Transylvania and its things to offer.
Dinner and wine tasting.

Included meals:

Dinner

2 ^nd Day

Castle life

Included highlights:

City tour of Sibiu
Depart to Tirnaveni,
Stop in Medias,
Visit of Blaj.
The extraordinary Greek Catholic cathedral.
Lunch in an old castle at Jidvei vineyard, and obviously we’ll enjoy a special wine tasting. Jidvei is the most important vineyard for dry white wines, their famous brand being the "Riesling from Jidvei".
Return to Sibiu.
Dinner.

Included meals:

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

3 ^rd Day

Full day in the Old Saxon area

Included highlights:

Visit Biertan
Special Saxon type lunch at Viscri - Weisskirch.
Talk to the mayor who is a Saxon lady and her mother.
See Prince Charles Foundation charity activity in this region to save this civilization.
Tasting an exceptional plum brandy and local wines.
Stop and visit Sighisoara, the only inhabited medieval citadel, the Rothenburg of Eastern Europe.
Dinner.

Included meals:

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

4 ^th Day

Saxon villages

Included highlights:

Visit some Saxon villages
We’ll stop and perhaps manage to have a chat with a famous Saxon writer in Germany and not only, the Lutheran priest Eginald Schlattner.
Lunch in Agnethen, one of the 7 "Sieben Burgen" or in Cincu in the local restaurant.
Stop wherever will be possible and try to visit several Saxon fortified churches.
Dinner.

Included meals:

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

5 ^th Day

Sibiu and its Surroundings

Included highlights:

See the surroundings of Sibiu - cultural capital of Europe in 2007.
The biggest and well preserved village museum just outside from Sibiu;
The basilica from Heltau
Saxon lunch in the basilica from Heltau
Free time for last shopping possibility
Farewell dinner outside Sibiu at the Romanian family’s home, and again we’ll enjoy wine.

Included meals:

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

6 ^th Day

Departure

Included highlights:

Transfer to the airport with your guide.

Included meals:

Breakfast

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Hello Victoria, Thank you again so much for the tours last week! I had a lot of fun, and you are an excellent guide. Orheiul Vechi was really beautiful, and some of the photos came out very nice. I also really liked Chateau Vartely, so thank you for coming up with the idea to visit there.

Tiraspol was quite interesting and bizarre, and I'm glad we went, even with the cold and rain. The Kvint distillery was very good. I had to resist finishing the whole bottle. I hope I'll be able to visit Moldova again sometime before too long. I will also let you know whenever I come to Romania.

Natalia, a very knowledgeable guide, has beaten my expectations by far!!! I am a frequent traveller, always trying to find good guides. But up till now Natalia is my absolute favorite. It's the information she gave us in between you never can expect from a normal tour guide. Everything was well organized. One can feel that she loves her job. She has wide-ranging skills. Thank you!

Victoria, Just a short note to say thank you very much for everything on Sunday. Despite the long and tiring journey caused by the road closure in Ukraine, we thoroughly enjoyed our day, and learned so much about Moldova, Transnistria and Ukraine. We particularly enjoyed discovering Tiraspol, as it's such an unusual place and gave us a glimpse of how life was under the former Soviet regime. Because British history is relatively simple, with few invasions and no changes of borders, we struggle to understand the complexities of European history.

We were very impressed with your understanding - and with your excellent English language skills in explaining it all to us. It certainly brought to life our visit to your country. I hope your journey back home was a little easier than the one to Odessa. Please give our thanks to our driver on the day - I'm afraid we do not recall his name but we appreciated all he did to negotiate the way through the border crossings for us and to get us to Odessa as quickly as he did despite the obstacles. Good luck for future success in your career. If you are ever in England and are able to visit our area, do not hesitate to give us a call. We could show you the historic city of Winchester and the busy port and waterside areas of Portsmouth, which I'm sure you would find interesting. Thanks again for everything.