Date: 11th-19th of April ; Price: 1316 Euro place in double room
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Come to Romania to enjoy the real life in this beautiful country. You will have personal contact with 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 will 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 will visit three most important regions in Romania and enjoy one full day in each region with the locals.
DAY 1 Friday
Arrival in Bucharest, welcome cocktail, briefing, dinner and accommodation.
DAY 2 Saturday
Short sightseeing of Bucharest and departure to Sibiu. On the way we will see the most beautiful orthodox monastery in Wallachia, Curtea de Arges monastery. We arrive in Sibiu in the afternoon, an important cultural center in Romania, which was chosen to be the European capital of culture in 2007.Short sightseeing dinner and accommodation.
DAY 3 Sunday
Your first encounter with the local life.
We depart at 9.00 in order to take part at the orthodox service in the village. Some of us could 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 will learn how to make:
- Dumplings soup/ Noodles soup
- Eggplant Salad / Baked peppers salad
- Romanian stew / Ragout
- Romanian cheese pie/ Crunchies
In the afternoon, we can teach you to paint icons on glass and after a full day, late afternoon we will return to Sibiu where we will have a light dinner.
DAY 4 Monday
We will depart early in the morning so as to have enough time to reach the Northern region of Romania called Bucovina, over Cluj and Bistrita, and to have the chance to visit at least one of the famous UNESCO painted monasteries from 16th century. Dinner and accommodation.
DAY 5 Tuesday
Again we will go to a local family and learn how to cook local food. You will learn to 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”
Again you swap and taste what the others have cooked for you.
In the afternoon you will learn how to paint the famous Easter eggs from Bucovina
DAY 6 Wednesday
We head back to Southern Romania, over Bicaz Gorge and visit the famous UNESCO citadel in Transylvania, Sighisoara, and reach the Brasov region. Before arriving to our hostesses we will also visit Brasov with its famous Black Church.
DAY 7 Thursday
Today you will 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 will visit the Dracula Castle.
DAY 8 Friday
Departure to Bucharest, though Sinaia, where we stop to visit the Peles Castle.
In the afternoon we enter the kitchen of one of the most famous Restaurants in Bucharest - Jaristea, and be shared some of the experience of a professional chef.
Dinner will be at this extraordinary restaurant, where we will enjoy the high quality show they have.
DAY 9 Saturday
After a sightseeing of Bucharest we will depart to the airport and fly back home
• accommodation in 3-4* hotels
• full or half board
• special meals according to the program
• 4* bus
• entrance fees
• professional guide
For further information please contact:
Cultural Romtour, office@culturalromtour.com
