Date: Choose your date and send me an email

The program looks like this:

Day 1, at noon, we meet at Murighiol Village, loading luggage on the boat and leave with Elfi Boat, to Sf Gheorghe, by lakes and channels, a very photogenic route, we’ll have in front of us lakes, canals, birds, vegetation, landscapes so that you do not be bored. To reach Sf Gheorghe before sunset we must leave no later than 3 o’clock from Murighiol so please be punctual.

We park the boat near the Village Sf Gheorghe, Oana prepare dinner and eat on board then we sleep, we wake early the next day.

Day 2, very early, we depart for photography tour, with small boats. We have next to us also Delta and the Black Sea so, we quickly search the best option for sunrise, or a sea, with waves of light reddening dawn foamy and some shore birds or enter the lagoon and look for the birds. The area is rich in photographic subjects and I guarantee you will not get bored. We have 2 boats with rows which we can explore (2 each boat) places where we can not enter the big boat. The small boats will be used also for watching birds, covered with camouflage nets. Watching may also be a test of patience! But you will have the opportunity to make unique photographs. After passing the magic light of sunrise we come back to the big boat for a substantial brunch and then went on a journey by land, between the beach of Sf Gheorghe and Saraturi (a salt land area). Looking for shore birds, flora specific to this area, meadow viper, small birds in the bushes of sea buckthorn. On the evening we return to the village and we lodge overnight in a fisherman’s house where we can take a shower and eat a traditional fish dinner.

Notes:

• We recommend you very comfortable shoes for walking, mountain boots are preferable shoes (sneakers).
• In the small boats will be 2 people, in one boat i will row but in the other one, one of you must row. Distances are not big, the distances betwin Elfi Boat and our place to photography and watching is max 300-500 m.

Day3. We start again early in the morning and we post for photo-watching on the places that we explored in the previous day. We know exactly the angles of light falling and we’ll know very fast where to stay. When we are hungry come back and eat on the boat then we get back to the camera. In the vening eat and sleep on the boat again.

Day4, if you feel too tired wake up later,  if not we can try another sunrise (we do not stay too much, just to catch the magical light) and then drive slowly upstream on the Danube to Murighiol, we eat on the boat in movement. Arrive sometime afternoon and landed.

Participation: Optimum number of participants is 3, so you will sleep most comfortably in the boat and we have 2 each in small boats.

Program fee is:

459 Euro / person (for 3 persons)

Can do the same for 4 people (but you will sleep a little bit huddled in the cabin) and would cost 349 Euro / person

or, for 2 people, would cost 549 Euro / person and take only one small boat

The fee includes:

• Guide – Iliut Goean
• Rent the boat Elfi (including sleeping and gasoline).
• Small Boats Rentals
• Food (starting with dinner in Day1 and ending with lunch Day 4, including water, tea, coffee. Alcoholic beverages are not included.)
• Accommodation for one night in Saint George Village

*If you want to stay more days, the extra price is (the price is for the boat/package, not for person).

• 2 pers: 350 euro/day
• 3 pers: 380 euro/day
• 4 pers: 400 euro/zi

Booking is based on payment of 50% of  price. If the participant does not come to the meeting point, the money will not be returned

Equipment:

Storage space is generous but not unlimited so please limit yourself to what is necessary somehow, all this for your comfort, to not be buried in our luggage.

Besides camera gear (and tripod recommended) you should have: Boots, an waterproof jacket, hat, sleeping bag, pants thicker, some warm clothes, sunglasses (polarized recommend). Over day may be warm but at night can be cold.

If you want even more extreme session take with you some waders (found in fishing tackle shops) and will post you in a hideout in the water, standing in water almost to the waist, on a chair, covered with camouflage netting. You have no idea what surprises you have.

Danube Delta are far far away from anything. Take with you everything you really need. Do not expect to find here medication, clothes, drinks and other wonders.

Registration and information: Any questions or registration please use the contact page with confidence. If you fail to catch me on the phone means that i am deep inside Delta and have no network coverage, insist or send SMS.

If you want any other program, personalised program please let me know and i’ll send you the offer.

Our strengths are:

• One of the best guide you can find in Danube Delta.
• An excellent accommodation at a very fair price.
• The best places for photography
• Hides and posts.
• Specialized boat for photographers.

We are specialized in photography and birding tours for groups of 1 to 16 persons.

Depending by the preferences of the photographers/birders we can choose one of the following activities:

1. Exploring Danube Delta

We explore the most wilderness lakes and narrowest channels of the Delta searching for our subjects and taking photos to a large number of birds like pelicans, cormorants, geese, egrets, herons, ibises, spoonbills, grebes, rollers, bee-eaters, ducks, swans, eagles, hawks, falcons, coots, moorhens, crakes, limicols, cuckoos and small birds.  We have a lot of opportunities to meet also animals like otters, wild horses, muskrats etc. If you want, we can visit local villages and meet local people. Is one of the most apreciate programs of ours, you can discover Delta and take a lot of good pictures in the same time. We can also include visits in Letea Forest or on wild beaches.  We have different routes even for 21 days.

2. Photo Hunting for a specific kind of bird/animal

If you are interested to see or taking photos to a specific bird or animal (ore more) we can make a special program for searching it. We know very well the entire Delta and we know where (and when) to find all of the 320 species of birds living here.

3. Watching posts (hides)

We can provide you hides for watch birds (especially if you want a specific bird) and taking photos of this.

We can guarantee that you will not disturb this birds if you follow our instructions. This hides are on shore or even on water.

We can make personalized programs for each group, actually we have some standard programs but we always prefer to make a special one.

4. Kind of groups

For photography, birdwatching, discover

We can organize:

a) groups of 14-18 persons with accommodation on Flotel (Floating Hotel) or on shore hotel in Uzlina Village.

We can take a cruise or stay on shore with the Flotel. All excursions will make it by small boats (6-8 pers).

b) groups of 5-14 persons with accommodation on shore hotel in Uzlina Village.

All excursions will make it by small boats (6-8 pers).

c) groups of 4 persons, this is (maybe) the most efficient kind of groups for photography and birdwatching.

We can stay on shore hotel in Murighiol Village or Uzlina Village (depending by the tour program) or we can take Elfi Boat, Crenguta Yacht and go away, we can take one day tours ad sleep in the same place or we can sleep on boat and take a round tour. OR. We can stay in the same place and take tours by small boats.

d) individual (or 2 persons group). We can do everything you want, whit any kind of boat, everywhere in Danube Delta.

For any details, booking, programs request please write to iliuta (@) fotonatura.ro

Our strengths are:

• One of the best guide you can find in Danube Delta.
• An excellent accommodation at a very fair price.
• The best places for photography
• Hides and posts.
• Specialized boat for photographers.

We are specialized in photography and birding tours for groups of 1 to 16 persons.

Depending by the preferences of the photographers/birders we can choose one of the following activities:

1. Exploring Danube Delta

We explore the most wilderness lakes and narrowest channels of the Delta searching for our subjects and taking photos to a large number of birds like pelicans, cormorants, geese, egrets, herons, ibises, spoonbills, grebes, rollers, bee-eaters, ducks, swans, eagles, hawks, falcons, coots, moorhens, crakes, limicols, cuckoos and small birds.  We have a lot of opportunities to meet also animals like otters, wild horses, muskrats etc. If you want, we can visit local villages and meet local people. Is one of the most apreciate programs of ours, you can discover Delta and take a lot of good pictures in the same time. We can also include visits in Letea Forest or on wild beaches.  We have different routes even for 21 days.

2. “Hunting” for a specific kind of bird/animal

If you are interested to see or taking photos to a specific bird or animal (ore more) we can make a special program for searching it. We know very well the entire Delta and we know where (and when) to find all of the 320 species of birds living here.

3. Watching posts (hides)

We can provide you hides for watch birds (especially if you want a specific bird) and taking photos of this.

We can guarantee that you will not disturb this birds if you follow our instructions. This hides are on shore or even on water.

We can make personalized programs for each group, actually we have some standard programs but we always prefer to make a special one.

Prices:

1. Full board accommodation

• 3 days/2 nights stay – 107 EUR /pers
• 4 days/3 nights stay – 145 EUR /pers
• 5 days/4 nights stay – 185 EUR /pers
• 6 days/5 nights stay – 225 EUR /pers

For single accommodation the fare is marked up by 30%

2. Boat and boatman:

• 9.9, 15, 20 HP – 60 EUR/day/boat
• fast boat 60 or 70 HP – 110 EUR/day/boat
  The fuel consumption will be added

3. Guiding by Iliuta Goean

• 1-4 days – 45 euro/day
• +5 days – 35 euro/day

4. Transfer from Murighiol to Uzlina and vice versa

• 15 EUR/pers

For any details, booking, programs request please write to iliuta (@) fotonatura.ro

We are specialized in photography and birding tours for groups of 1 to 16 persons and we have an unique offer for this area/activity/quality.

Depending by the preferences of the photographers/birders we can choose one of the following destinations:

• Danube Delta’s lakes and channels - Uzlina, Isac, Matita, Merhei, Babina, Lung, Gorgova, Puiu, Lumina, Rosu, Rosulet, Iacob, Raducu, Erenciuc.

• Searching for Birds of Danube Delta – great white pelican, crispy pelican, gulls, terns, ducks, swans, grebes, cormorants, ibises, crakes, coots, moorhens, lapwings etc.

• Searching for Rare Birds – stilt, avocet, oystercatcher, plovers, sandpipers, godwits, curlew, mediterranean gull, pygmy cormorant, shag, kingfisher, shell duck, white tailed eagle, spoonbill, stone curlew, pratincole etc

• Marine levees – Perisor, Periteasca, Mocirla, Sacalin, Saraturile

• Continental and fluvial levees - Stipoc, Chilia, Letea, Caraorman

• Forest – Letea, Caraorman

• Villages, fishermen villages, fishermen houses and shelters, local people, folk customs - Murighiol, Caraorman, Gorgova, Vulturu, Maliuc, Mila 23, Crisan, Sfantu Gheorghe, Sulina, Letea, CA Rosetti, Sfistofca, Periprava, Chilia

• Targeted expeditions in Danube Delta for birds, insects, plants, still photohunting places.

We can do programs by request or we can suggest programs. Some of the destinations can be mixed in one day and others need one full day.

Accomodation on floating hotel

Accommodation in Danube Delta is on the floating hotels Anastasia I and II, rated with 3 ***.

Price including:

• accommodation;

• meals

• boat (2 days for 3d/2n programs and 3 days for 4d/3n programs).

• guide

• transfer Murighiol – Uzlina and back

Double room on floating hotel

Because of the reduced number of places please make bookings as soon as possible. For booking you have to pay 30% of the trip price.

Every room have bathroom

Price is in RON (romanian lei) and VAT is included.

For any other information, details, special requests or booking please write to:
iliuta (@) fotonatura.ro.