Bears & Danube Delta & Vultures Photo Tour 11d/10n SHARED 2025
Explore the wild side of Eastern Europe with our Bear, Water Bird, and Vulture Photography Tour, designed for passionate wildlife photographers. Start in Transylvania, where you’ll photograph brown bears from a professional hide, capturing stunning close-ups of these magnificent animals. Next, travel to the Danube Delta, the land of Water Birds, the Europe’s largest biodiversity place. Finally, journey to Bulgaria for an unforgettable session photographing vultures, including Griffon and Egyptian species, from hides strategically placed for optimal shots. Led by a professional photographer, this tour offers a rich and diverse wildlife photography experience across three spectacular regions.
What is included: All the necessary accommodations (10 nights) ; half board; a professional photographer guide; a total of 7 days of BEARS and BIRDS Photo Tours, starting at sunrise.
The price of this tour is:
2.880 euro/pers
The price is per person (accommodation in double room), per tour and it is in euro (EUR).
460 euro/pers/program single supplement
*We offer double rooms only for clients booking together. If you book for 1 persons, you’ll have a single room.
Data for this program in 2025:
Period | Places | Price |
|---|---|---|
8 Sep - 18 Sep | 2880 |
Click on available number of place in the table and fill up the form. Our agents will process the request and answer to you (usually in less then 24h). Please check also the SPAM folder for our email.
*DISCLAIMER – this tour implies border crossing to Bulgaria. It’s your own responsibility to check the request of personal documents, visas or other aspects, depends by your nationality.
Included in this price:
- Accommodation at 3* level, en-suite bathroom, for 10 nights
- Half board (dinner on the first day, breakfast and dinner for days 2-10, breakfast on day 11)
- 2 days Birds&Bears in Transylvania + 3 days Boat Photo Tours + 2 days Vultures Hide Photo Tour.
- ENGLISH guidance – specialized photographer guide
- All the transfers for this tour, from Bucharest to Bucharest
- Fees for visiting the Danube Delta
Optionally:
- Lunch meal – the price is 15-25 euro/pers (payment directly in cash, RON or EUR, on the spot)
The price does not include:
- Beverages, other than water
- Lunch meal
- Insurance of any kind (travel, goods, etc.)
Children policy:
- Minimum age to participate is 18
Itinerary
Day 1 – Pick-up | Transfer to Transylvania
We’ll pick you up from Bucharest Airport or Hotel, in the morning and transfer you to Transylvania.
Latest pick-up hour is 11:00.
Check-in to the accommodation. Dinner is to the accommodation.
Days 2 and 3 – Breakfast | Morning session | Free time for lunch | Bears hide session | Dinner
Breakfast to the accommodation then morning birds hide session.
At lunch you’ll have some free time then you’ll enter to the Bears Hide.
Our local partner is one of the best in this activity, he knows the Bears very well and feed them fairly only with seeds and fruits. This hide is not to attract the Bears but to stop them on the way to the Village.
Dinner to the accommodation.
Day 4 – Breakfast | Transfer to Tulcea
After breakfast, the guide will transfer you to Tulcea, to continue the trip to the Danube Delta.
Transfer and accommodation at the guesthouse in Mila23
You will go to Mila23 and check in at the guesthouse. The transfer takes 2-2,5 hours. During the transfer, we have enough time to talk about our route, Danube Delta peculiarities, nature photography, rules and behavior in a natural reserve and the program for next two days.
In the evening, the host will wait for you with a traditional dinner based on fish (if you have any food restrictions, please let us know when you make the booking).
Days 5-6-7 – Morning Photo Session | Breakfast | Rest/Free time | Evening Photo Session
Your trip into the Danube Delta will begin early in the morning, before sunrise, to catch its magic light and birds that begin to feed. The morning tour takes about 5-6 hours and you will have the breakfast to go or on return to the accommodation. After the morning session, you will return to the guesthouse to have some rest. With 4 hours before sunset, you will start for the evening session. You will travel to different places in Danube Delta, the routes being decided on a day to day basis, depending on weather conditions, water level and our guides experience. After taking your last shots in the dusk, you will come back to the accommodation. Don’t forget to download your photos and recharge your batteries!
We will be looking for the stars of these places: Pelicans, both the White and the rare Dalmatians. Of course, we will be looking for any kind of bird, starting with the common Little and Great Egrets, Gray, Purple, Yellow, or Night Heron, the agile Kingfisher, the majestic White-tailed Eagle and noisy Coots. We will also look for surf birds or birds that look for food in muddy stretches: Godwits, Spoonbills, Ibises, Ruffs, Stilts and others.
Of course we will not neglect the mammals, we will always seek to find and show you the playful otters, the cautious wild boars, the elegant roe deer, the funny muskrats or the beautiful raccoon dog.
Lunch is optional (you can order it to the guesthouse). Dinner is at the guesthouse.
Day 8 – Breakfast | Transfer to Tulcea | Transfer to Bulgaria
After a relaxed breakfast (8:30 a.m.), this time without sunrise session, you will return to Tulcea, but now, in the morning, you will have the best light for this route. This is a good chance to have good pictures from the fantastic Danube Delta. Around 10:30 you will be back to Tulcea.
We’ll pick you up from Port Aval, at the returning from the Danube Delta Tour and transfer you to South Bulgaria.
It’s a 10h drive.
Dinner at the accommodation.
Days 9 and 10 – Hide sessions
Every morning, the guide will take you to the hide, before sunrise. Breakfast is to go. The photo sessions takes until sunrise.
Dinner to the accommodation.
Day 11 – Breakfast | Transfer to Tulcea, Romania.
After breakfast, the guide will drive you back to Bucharest, Romania, where the program ends.
Details
Group Confirmation
This program is running with minimum 2 persons subscribed.
Shared Program
Being a SHARED program, this means the whole group goes with the same car/boat, at the same hours (hours detailed in the program). Please be on board at scheduled time.
Photo tours
If you have target species you want to photograph, please let us know, we’ll do our best to take you on good places for this species (if it’s possible).
Booking
Bookings are based on 30% deposit. You’ll receive a payment link.
More then 90 days before the program you can postpone the trip (you will receive a voucher available 2 years). Less then 90 days before the trip, the deposit is non refundable.
The remaining balance can be paid on arrival at our boarding point in cash or by payment link (LEI/RON or EURO).
Contact
Email: contact@discoverdanubedelta.com
Phone: (Voice, SMS, WatsApp): +40 757 894 456 | +40 749 120 009
* For bookings or requests, we always prefer to communicate by email. Thank you!
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