Cooking and Cultural Trip to Romania

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About Tour

Ordina adesso

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 o giorno

Arrival in Romania

Visite comprese:

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

Pasti compresi:

Dinner

2 o giorno

Discover the European capital of culture in 2007

Visite comprese:

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.

Pasti compresi:

Breakfast
Dinner

3 o giorno

Your first encounter with the local life

Visite comprese:

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

Pasti compresi:

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

4 ° giorno

Let's go to Bucovina

Visite comprese:

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.

Pasti compresi:

Breakfast
Dinner

5 ° giorno

Learning how to cook local food

Visite comprese:

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.

Pasti compresi:

Breakfast
Lunch

6 ° giorno

Head back to the Southern Romania

Visite comprese:

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.

Pasti compresi:

Breakfast

7 ° giorno

A new cooking lesson

Visite comprese:

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.

Pasti compresi:

Breakfast
Lunch

8 ° giorno

Get some experience of a professional chef

Visite comprese:

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.

Pasti compresi:

Breakfast
Dinner

9 ° giorno

Departure home

Visite comprese:

Sightseeing of Bucharest
Depart to the airport
Fly back home.

Pasti compresi:

Breakfast

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Cara Victoria, grazie mille per aver reso memorabile il mio viaggio in Moldavia. La tua conoscenza, il fascino e la bellezza sono incomparabili. Che fortuna da parte mia ottenere la migliore guida in Moldavia per la mia visita.

Ciao, Natalia! Ti contatto per ringraziarti per il tuo aiuto, guida e compagnia mentre ero nel tuo paese. Devo dire che mi è piaciuto particolarmente stare con te, in quei 2 viaggi che ho fatto. Se non ti dispiace che te lo dica, penso che tu sia una persona adorabile e affascinante, ed è stato un piacere per me incontrarti.

Cari signori! Durante una recente visita a Chisinau in Moldavia, ho richiesto l'assistenza di una guida locale, in quanto la mia conoscenza del paese era molto limitata. La mia guida era una signorina di nome Natalia Cojuhari, desidero dichiarare che le sue capacità come guida erano piuttosto ineguagliabili.

Le qualità che cerco in una guida, la conoscenza locale, la disponibilità e la capacità complessiva di assicurare il gruppo di cui si è responsabile, vengono scoperte soltanto nel paese visitato. Credo che la signora Cojuhari abbia soddisfatto tutti questi requisiti, insieme al suo comportamento generale, credo che le faccia diventare una guida turistica di prima classe.