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Excellent organisation prior and during trip. Great guide who was extremely knowledgeable. Good balance/range of activities. Excellent accommodation and location.
Snowshoeing. Hike through gorge to mountain hut. Walk to Bran. Bear sanctuary and trip to Brasov.
He took great care of everyone in the group. He was proactive with imparting knowledge about his country. He was incredibly well organised and had a good sense of humour. He paid particular attention to our health and safety when we were walking on ice and snow.
The snowshoe in Transylvania exceeded expectations! Our guide Sebi lead our group on amazing hikes, shared Romanian history and culture on a level of a professor. Sebi understood all the questions asked and exhibited patience and humor throughout our week long holiday. Villa Hermani was comfortable, had excellent warmth and food and delightful staff. Highly recommend!
Hiking and snowshoeing
Sebi was amazing. Could not have asked for a better guide
Excellent guide Very comfortable guest house with delicious food
So many: walking in the snowy mountains - very beautiful, getting to know more about the traditional way of life, visiting the bear sanctuary and Brasov, enjoying the group company
Sebi knew the area so well, was very informative about local life and always happy to have a good conversation and share his thoughts. He was calm and helpful about any difficulties e.g. Managing our snow-shoes (first time I had uses them) and kept a quiet and thoughtful eye on us all. Great sense of humour too!
It was the perfect winter holiday for a non-skier with stunning landscapes, snow, lovely walks, good company, a friendly, family run guesthouse providing excellent food and home made plum brandy, plus bears and wolves and Dracula’s castle.
Walking through the forest and mountains in snow, tracking wolf prints, was magical. Bran castle was great fun. We bought various gothic accessories with us and took loads of daft photos
Tomas was very well organized and knowledgeable about the region and the history of Transylvania. He chatted to everybody in the group and was helpful with hiking gear and with anyone who needed assistance.
Well organised trip. Excellent guide with local knowledge. Good balance of experiences.
Snow showing to the mountain hut. Visiting the bear sanctuary and Vulcan fortified church.
Great guide who went out of his way to ensure people were happy and able to participate. He had great local knowledge and if unsure asked google! ( eg footprints of animal in the snow!)
A hidden gem of a European trip exploring the quiet and less visited Transylvanian Mountains complete with charming, local accommodation and delicious food to match!
Arriving at the Piatra Craiului Mountains was really special for the whole group!
Tomas was a fantastic group leader. A fantastic sense of humour as well as brilliant historical knowledge and he even brought eggs hatched from his own chickens for us each morning for breakfast!
Take some crampons for potential icy conditions!
A really interesting week’s snowshoeing in beautiful mountians in an unspoilt part of the world
Several - the last day's walking in idyllic mountains, bear sanctuary visit. In fact each day was stunning and different.
Thomas was excellent. Not only was he very knowledgable and enthusiastic but he looked after the group well.
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I’m just back from this trip, and had a great time. The trip was full, with 16 people, and everyone was lovely. Villa Hermani is a great small hotel, and the food is excellent. Katharine and Herman are lovely hosts, and their Romanian cook is excellent. Our walk leader was Leo, their son, and he was good fun and a very capable guide. He had to make some difficult decisions because of the dodgy and changeable weather, and the varying abilities in the group,which he handled very well. It was great to have Rares (Alex) along as a second guide, and we really needed him at times.
Magura – like most of Europe – has had a strange winter, so there was only a dusting of snow when we arrived. But, with that and a couple of further dumps of snow during the week, we managed 2 walks with snowshoes and 1 with yaktrax, as well as ordinary walking in hiking boots.
I liked the mix of walking and cultural visits – bears, Saxon history, Bran Castle. And I stayed for 2 days in Bucharest at the end to see a bit more of Romania. It was so different it seemed like a totally different country!
Lunch at the Curmatura Cabin - it snowed heavily while we were inside, and the whole world had changed when we came out.
Leo was excellent. He was very capable in the outdoors, and very sensible in his approach to problems. He was very aware of our health and safety - helping us up and down difficult bits, cutting side branches off fallen trees etc.
Have at least a modicum of fitness. It's not terribly strenuous, but neither is it leisurely. Most people hadn't snowshoed before, and that was fine. And definitiely bring yaktrax or equivalent - you'd be lost without them if you have ice like we did. And this is not a holiday for people scared of dogs - farm dogs run free everywhere, and are completely unavoidable.
… and I’ve been to Canada, so that says a lot.
Our group was extremely lucky with the weather. You basically walk up and down mountains every day, nothing interesting about that. It is the weather that controls what the views look like. I regret nothing.
When I look back at my pictures, there are two moments that stand out. At the end of our visit to Brasov, we stopped at a viewpoint on our way to the restaurant. That view was epic. It was nightfall, the lights in the city were on and behind it, you could see the mountain, it was breathtaking. The walk to Bran was the most beautiful. I can not put it into words. I enjoyed every second of that walk.
Thomas, the group leader was perfect. He knows the area really well and has a lot of experience guiding groups.
Read the trip notes. For some bizarre reason, I hadn't done that and I didn't have the right gear. Luckily I was able to borrow it, but still. I felt uncomfortable doing that, knowing I could break or lose something.
This was my first snowshoeing holiday and despite being a bit apprehensive beforehand I absolutely loved it. Everything combined to make it a fantastic holiday – a get away location in the middle of the national park, a very homely hotel with superb food and hospitality, stunning scenery on each walk and a very interesting daytrip to some of the local places of interest. Add to that a really friendly group of fellow travellers and it truly was a week to remember.
It was a week full of experiences, but for me the last two walks were the best. The walk to Bran Castle took us through some beautiful countryside, and the castle itself was very interesting (our guide also advised that this was the best time of year to visit as you may have to queue for up to two hours in the summer to get into the castle). Our last walk through the gorge to the Piatra Craiului mountains was also stunning. It was quite a slog up to the mountain hut, but well worth it for the views, as well as the soup and mulled wine we enjoyed inside the hut.
Thomas was a star - I liked his relaxed style and his bad jokes! We had a full group of sixteen people, so he had to work hard to make sure that everyone was coping okay with the terrain. He made sure that we had all the vital information for each day's itinerary and generally went above and beyond to make our holiday as enjoyable as possible.
The hotel is quite isolated in the national park - no other bars or restaurants around. I loved the week away from it all but don't pick this holiday if you want a busier nightlife. Linked to this, take plenty of supplies with you, e.g. toiletries and snacks for the walks, as it is the middle of the holiday before you get a chance to stock up on such items. Be aware that there are a lot of working dogs in the neighbourhood. I was never woken up by them howling, but I know that some of the others in the group did find it a bit of a problem some nights. Also, make sure that you have a good level of fitness. I am a keen hill-walker so did not find it a problem, but on balance I felt that this Grade 3 holiday was more difficult than a Grade 3 summer walking holiday with Exodus.