Birdwatching Tours

We offer birdwatching tours in Danube Delta both for young people and for luxury travelers. Accommodation is offered in a range varying from **** hotel or floating hotel to tents in the most unspoiled corners of the Delta, or the rural traditional guest-house in the fishermen’s village.

In case of the floating hotel, the ideal group is of 20 people. They’ll travel throughout the Delta, sleep and eat on the hotel (we offer cooked food). A small boat will accompany the hotel, so you’ll be able to reach places where the floating hotel can’t reach. A tour on a floating hotel does not require special physical shape, just the interest in birdwatching or just relaxing for a couple of days in the kingdom of the waters. Be sure to have enough batteries for your photo camera.

This kind of tours can vary from 3 to 12 days according to your group’s desire.

If you don’t want to miss anything from the Danube Delta and you have a good fettle, you could go for the adventure: canoeing or kayaking on the narrow channels and camping on some sand dunes, admiring the white pelicans (pelecanus onocrotalus) feeding early in the morning or maybe encountering an old fisherman wanting to tell you his stories. This kind of tour can be adapted to you physical shape and we always try to keep a good balance between paddling and birdwatching.

We do provide the transfer from Bucharest to Tulcea town, the gate to the Danube Delta.

Our birdwatching guide speaks a very good English, is a birdwatching Ace (the guy is doing this since he was a 10 years old kid) and spends half of his life in the Delta, watching the birds.

Level rating

We rate as easy a tour where you’ll only paddle for a few (2-3) hours a day, dedicating most of the time to pure birdwatching.

Moderate rowing tours require a good shape, the desire to paddle for four to five hours and to maintain a good paddling stroke.

Demanding tours means you’ll paddle, go fast and see a lot of things, but at the end of the day you’ll feel the effort and the real joy!

Recommended birdwatching gear

For the tours with accommodation based on guest-houses or floating hotel we recommend a cap or hat, sun glasses, sun lotion, a good binocular, a tripod, the photo camera swimming suit for the tours in the Danube Delta. For birdwatching in other area of the country we’d suggest you take a look at our general “what to take” page.

A tent, sleeping bag & a camping mat are indispensable when accommodation in ‘cabana’ (mountain hut) won’t come as our main purpose. We’ll provide the tent and the sleeping mat, but NOT the sleeping bag.

Backpack or rucksack – Since there is no rucksack being really totally waterproof, you should keep clothes and other stuff in plastic bags.

Since food in eastern Europe (incl. Romania) tends to come in heavy glass jars and cans you better consider taking the special ‘adventure’ food which is available in light packaging in your own country.

First-aid kit, extra food and extra clothing are to be considered for the paddling tours with accommodation in tents. A knife, spoon and mug or bowl are also pretty important as well as a spotlight. For cooking there will be a camping stove required but that will be supplied by us for the whole trip (one stove for 3-4 persons).

As far as clothing is concerned, you shouldn’t forget the layering principle. In the mountains the weather can change suddenly, or you might finish a long hot climb by reaching a ridge and walking into a cutting cold wind. Modern lightweight breathable materials (such as Gore-Tex) makes this easier, but you can apply the principle almost as well with normal everyday clothes: a T-shirt to soak up sweat, then a shirt and thin pullovers for warmth topped by a jacket or cagoule to protect against both wind and rain (wicking, insulation and shell layers).

Waterproof trousers are as well to be considered. The jacket should have semi-waterproof pockets sealed by Velcro or a zip under a storm flap. Wearing jeans will be at your peril as they take days to dry. Good boots are essential for rough, rocky or wet terrain, or long cross-country routes; light boots or trainers might be acceptable for easy walks without a heavy load, and are kinder to sensitive terrain as well as being useful to change into at the end of the day.