1. “The Best of Maramures in one day“: The Merry Cemetery, Săpânța-Peri Convent (the highest wooden church in the world), Sighetu Marmaţiei’s food market and Memorial of the Victims of the Communism, Bârsana Convent (the most beautiful in Northern Transylvania), a wooden gates carving workshop, a medieval wooden church and a group of water powered mills (or, take a short tour around a traditional village, instead). Price: 75 euro/person for 2 people, starting/ending in Sighetu Marmației, including the guiding fee, transport and the entrance tickets.
2. “Maramures’s Attractions” (lasting 3 days, but it can done from 2 to 7 days, according to your preferences). Beside the famous sights (found in Sighetu Marmației, Bârsana, Săpânța, Breb, Călinești, Sârbi, Botiza, Săcel, Bogdan Vodă, Budești, Berbești and other places), walk around Cosău and Iza Valley villages, see local markets, meet traditional craftsmen and farmers, and, if time enough, visit virgin forests, hike up in Rodna or Gutâi mountains, take a ride with the Vaser Valley steam train…
Price: 220 euro/person for the 3-day tour of Maramures for 2 people, starting/ending in Sighetu Marmației, including the guiding fee, transport and the entrance tickets.
Optional, if including the accommodation (2 nights with breakfast, based on a double-room sharing, in a 3-star level facility), plus the guiding fee, transport and the entrance tickets, pay 330 euro/person for the 3-day tour of Maramures for 2 people, if starting/ending in Sighetu Marmației area or its surroundings.
3. “Following Traditional Way of Life“: visit traditional farms where the locals are still working their land like long time ago, drying hay by hand, breeding cattle for their use, in a self-sufficient subsistence economy.
4. “Jewish Maramures Tour“: Elie Wiesel House, the active Sephardic Synagogue, the new Hasidic Synagogue (consacrated in 2021), the old and large Jewish Cemetery, the Holocaust Monument, Kahan Court and others (all in Sighet). Also, see the birthplace of the Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz, Elefant House from Vișeu de Sus (displays about local Jews) or an abandoned countryside Synagogue.
5. Maramures walking tour. The 3-5 days of walking across Maramures, can be done exclusively up in the mountains (on Rodna Mountains National Park, Maramureș Mountains Natural Park, Gutâi Mountains and Băiuț virgin forests), at 1000-2300 m altitude, or, if prefer, you can choose to walk between villages, on small paths and roads, reaching also the ridges which separate Iza, Cosău, Mara and Vișeu valleys, at 250-800 m altitude, through a mixture of arable land, orchards, hayfields, pastures, isolated trees and agro-terraces, laboriously constructed centuries ago, bounded by hedges, wooden fences or streams crossed by footbridges, seeing traditional villages, meeting local farmers and craftspeople. Feel free to choose the tour length, level of difficulty and the landmarks must-see list, and we will propose the best itinerary.
6. Tailor-made Tour“ is the best way to understand the secrets of Northern Romania, mixing any of the tours mentioned above with isolated mountain hamlets without electricity or road access, taste local cuisine, drink (and see how is made!) a shot of local spirit – “horinca” and experience other things not mentioned above.
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