Gypsy Trip

Let your prejudices aside and come to celebrate this exclusive feast, because to celebrate is what the gypsies do best. This trip presents the complex image of one of the most interesting and personalized ethnicity from Romania: the Gypsies.

We will discover the world of an ethnic group that strongly individualized through traditional features that had done in a small degree to integrate in Romanian society of those times and continues to experience difficulties in adjusting to new realities and requirements arising from EU membership.

1 -й день

Arrival

Включенные моменты:

  • Arrival in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.
  • If time allows a short city tour can be organized. Bucharest will be the first point where we will start to discover the Gypsy World. You may even stumble upon a Gypsy band in one of Bucharest’s beautiful city squares. If such is the case, you’d be hard pressed not to take part in the joyful dancing that always accompanies such impromptu concerts. You can get a taste for the vibrancy of Roma culture - and surely you’ll get a strong sense of how gypsy culture is rooted deep within Romania’s history.
  • In the evening a meeting with a local personality of gypsies’ will take place and you will have the chance to discuss over dinner about their history and culture.
  • Check-in.

2 -й день

Discovering Gypsy communities in Transylvania

Включенные моменты:

  • Departure to Sighisoara, the only inhabited medieval citadel, the Rothenburg of Eastern Europe.
  • Stop in Viscri, where we will discuss about Prince Charles projects regarding the gypsy communities in Transylvania
  • Have lunch.
  • Arrival in Sighisoara.
  • Dinner and check-in.

Включенная еда:
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
3 -й день

Discovering Sighisoara and the Gypsies

Включенные моменты:

  • Enjoy the city tour of Sighisoara - the place of Dracula’s birth and the best preserved medieval citadel of Romania - part of the UNESCO patrimony.
  • Visit the gypsies from Valeni.
  • Traditional gypsy lunch and Barbeque with the gypsies and enjoy the traditional gypsy life.
  • Continue to Reghin.
  • Check-in.
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4 -й день

Discovering the Gypsy life

Включенные моменты:

In the district of Apalina, situated in the suburbs of the Municipality of Reghin, live 466 gypsy families, but not at all a easy life. People from there succeed to survive from the social help delivered by the City Hall and also by colecting recyclable materials. Here we will visit a family that is involved in Horse breeding.

  • Visit the Gypsies from Apalina,
  • Lunch with the Gypsies
  • Continue to Bacau.
  • Check-in at the hotel in Bacau.

Включенная еда:
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
5 -й день

Listening the Gypsy Music

Включенные моменты:

  • Lunch in the neighborhood of Bacau,
  • Listen the gypsy fanfare - a brass band of Gypsy heritage. Music is a very important part of their life. They attend all the important moments in the village life such as weddings, baptisms, funerals and all the other family or community celebrations. The musicians are men and their instruments have been passed on from father to son for generations. Roma being involved in performing at the weddings have always represented an important link in economic and social life of the local community.
  • Continue to Botosani city.
  • Dinner and check-in.

Включенная еда:
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
6 -й день

Full day dedicated to the Gypsies

Включенные моменты:

Full day dedicated to the Blacksmiths, Lingurari (producers of domestic products of wood tools) and musicians at Stefanesti. Formerly also an important jewish center, Stefanesti exhibits a very interesting mix of the 2 Roma groups plus Jewish remains and influences. Return to the hotel.

Historically gypsies were divided as follows:

  • “rudari” or goldsmiths, were dealing to pursuit the gold in rivers;
  • “ursari”, who wandered the country with their bears;
  • “lingurari” dealing with domestic products of wood tools;
  • “laiesii” who were blacksmiths, builders, manufacturers of combs, were small thefts. They did not have stable housing, living in tents and wandered the country in order to get the bare necessities of life.

7 -й день

Discovering the Gypsies from Moldova

Включенные моменты:

  • Visit Soroca, the Gypsy “capital” of the Republic of Moldova with a sizable Gypsy minority settled here.
  • Visit the fortress which is a unique monument of defensive architecture of Europe.
  • Visit the “Gypsies’ hill” where we will get acquainted with local sightseeing -“Palaces” where the gypsies live. Here you will have a tremendous possibility to visit a gypsy family owner of a bakery, to get familiarized with the gypsies’ way of life
  • Try the dishes of traditional Gypsy cuisine.
  • Visit Chateau Vartely. Here we will have an excursion around the complex, visit the wine factory, have the wine tasting
  • Have dinner in traditional Moldovan or European style at Chateau Vartely.
  • Check-in

Включенная еда:
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner with wine tasting
8 -й день

Wine tasting in an underground wine city

Включенные моменты:

  • Check-out
  • Discover TIRASPOL (capital of Transnistria) - the old USSR is still alive and well in Transnistria. It is a breakaway territory within the internationally recognized borders of Moldova.
  • Enjoy a brandy tasting and lunch.
  • City tour of Tiraspol
  • Visit the Football Academy.
  • Departure to Chisinau,
  • Check-in
  • Wine tasting in the underground wine city Milestii Mici, registered in the Guinness Book of Records for being the biggest Wine Collection in the world. It contains over two million bottles of wine highly appreciated by the winemakers from all over the world. The wines lie right there, at a depth of 80 meters, in bottles covered with dust and mold, in small elegant houses which are completed every year.
  • Return to our hotel.

Включенная еда:
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch with brandy tasting
9 -й день

Departure home

Включенные моменты:

  • Departure from Chisinau.

Включенная еда:
  • Breakfast

Что Говорят о нас

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Во время моего недавнего отпуска в Молдове мне повезло, что мисс Виктория Одобеску дважды была гидом и водителем. Однажды мы отправились в Орхейул Векь, а в другой раз - в Сороку, форт XV века, охраняющий переход через Днестр. Мисс Одобеску очень хорошо говорит по-английски, у нее широкий диапазон и она уверенный и безопасный водитель. Виктория была исключительно хорошо осведомлена об истории, культуре и людях Молдовы. Кроме того, она была очень чувствительна к моим потребностям и желаниям. Я очень рекомендую услуги, предоставляемые Викторией Одобеску. Я уверена, что она будет иметь успех в своей карьере в сфере туризма.

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