With the unusually cold winter that has hit Romania this year, the few bird species that stayed in the delta for Christmas had to adapt to make sure they survive till the spring.
A number of cormorants, which usually hunt fish underwater, found the thick lair of ice impossible to break this year, so they moved [...]
Wild Danube Delta
Probably the Last Natural Paradise in Europe
So Why is Danube Delta My Favorite Vacation Spot?
I’ve been living my whole life close to the Danube Delta, always at only a short boat ride from the marvelous spectacle the nature offers us in this beautiful land.
Any time I would feel like it, I could simply just take the first ship to Sulina or Sfantu Gheorghe and find myself in the middle of the wilderness.
With that in mind, you would expect for me to become so sick of it and look for something else.
Well, not really...
In fact, up until recently, I never gave it too much importance. I just took it for granted, as something that was just there and never saw the beauty of it.
You know how you never appreciate things that you take for granted. Well, I totally relate to that.
My passion for the Danube Delta was born after I saw a marathon show on TV about a year and a half ago about Sulina, an old city in the delta where I discovered a lot of interesting facts about this land’s history.
After that, I took the first opportunity to visit this place and guess what:
I fell in love with it.
The time I had there was unbelievable.
The beaches, the people, the fishing, boat riding, the traditional dishes and everything else made that particular trip the best trip I ever had.
The Danube Delta has some kind of magic that draws you back to it once you leave. Once I left Sulina, I couldn’t wait for the next trip.
Soon enough, two weeks later I was in Sfantu Gheorghe, a small fishermen village on the Danube’s branch with the same name.
I got there right in middle of the International Anonymous Movie Festival.
Oh, that was beautiful. The cultural diversity I found there was incredible.
After those two experiences, I’ve been a frequent visitor.
I built this website because I want to share with the world at least some bits of the beautiful Danube Delta. You will find here:
- My favorite beaches
- Absolute "must do" in Danube Delta
- The places where you can experience nature in it’s purest form.
- Best hotels and resorts (cheap and expensive)
- My favorite Danube Delta villa
- The best places to eat traditional dish
- The totally unique "little things" that make Danube Delta, the Danube Delta.
- The best ways to explore the Danube Delta
- Places for fishing, bird watching and hunting
- The history and culture of the people living here
- Lots of pictures!!
As I mentioned, I like to travel a lot. My latest trip was to Crete, so I had to build another site that covers the most important things to be seen there. You can find it at http://www.crete-travel-guide.com
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As a proof [...]
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Half a century ago, it was not a protected UNESCO site. It was only a low populated and isolated region of the communist Romania. This [...]
Saint Lazarus Leper Wine
I was looking so some fresh news about Danube Delta earlier and I ran into a really interesting article on austriantimes.at that really caught my attention. My surprise is that it was about Tichilesti, the last lepers colony in Europe, which, although is not in the Danube Delta as the article claims, is close and [...]