Scientific Program

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IEOC 2025: Post-congress trip in the Danube Delta

Presentation and offers

The transport inside the Danube Delta is possible only on the water by boats of various size and by local cars (local community as owners) or pedestrian inside the villages, respectively towards the Caraorman (Letea) Forest.

The location of Crișan village is in the middle of the Danube Delta, in the southern point of the Old Danube Delta (it appears as a large M on the map), along Sulina arm of the Danube River. This allows the facile access towards any point of the Danube Delta.

- The first one-day trip is a visit in the northern side of Sulina arm, using the Old Danube way, canals and lakes towards the Mila 23 village (part of Crișan commune), the best illustration of one Lipovan community inside the Danube Delta and homeland of Ivan Patzaichin, famous Romanian canoeist (seven Olympic medals including four Gold medals and 22 championship medals). The breeding colony of pelicans from Roșca-Buhaiova, the most significant from the Danube Delta perimeter is present in the vicinity of Mila 23 village.

- The second one-day trip is a visit in the southern side of Sulina arm, using canals and lakes area towards the Caraorman Forest and village (part of Crișan commune, too), a very well preserved oak forest on the sandy dunes, with impressive old oak trees.

The costs inside the Danube Delta include: 

- three nights’ accommodation, 

- breakfast and a lunch-dinner (so, two meals/day) – excepting tea and coffee, no drink included, 

- pick-up and back Murighiol - Crișan by boat (by the owner of hostels in Crișan village), 

- two one-day trips by boat: Crișan - Mila 23 village (Old Danube trip) - Crișan, respectively, Crișan - Caraorman Forest trip – Crișan

- Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve access taxa

- auto-transport towards and inside the Caraorman Forest.

Offers

Hostels in Crișan village:

A. Two small family hostels (all the meal products are homemade produces), Floarea dintre ape (Flower between waters, https://www.facebook.com/floareadintreape/) – 20 persons (single beds and double beds – with separate blankets/covers) = 235 euro/person. 

B. One large hostel, Pescarul vânător (Fisherman hunter, https://www.pescarulvanator.ro/) – 20-24 persons (single beds and double beds – with separate blankets/quilts) = 265 euro/person.

C. One large hostel (all the meal products are homemade produces), Casa Călin (Calin House, https://www.casacalin.ro/) - authorised tourism guide, speaking English, French and Russian – 20-26 persons (single beds and double beds – with separate blankets/quilts) = 405 euro/person.

Floating hotels:

A. Luxury category, Ibis Tours (https://ibistours.ro/) – 20 persons = 640 euro/person (the price includes accommodation for three nights, breakfast, lunch and dinner – without drinks! - for three days, the same visits towards Mila 23 village and Caraorman Forest, and also the transfer by bus from Tulcea city towards Otopeni/Bucharest International Airport, but not from Iași city towards Tulcea city).

B. Common category – 20 persons = 315 euro/person (the services are similar as in the hostel offer, but the pick-up and return is from Tulcea city. The advantage is that the arrival time for the return in Tulcea (Sunday, 25 May) will be earlier than via Murighiol village).

The costs for the auto transfer from Iași city towards the Danube Delta regard a group of 20 - 30 persons:

a. Iași city (university) - Murighiol - Iași International Airport = 50 euro/person.

b. Iași city (university) - Tulcea - Iași International Airport = 45 euro/person.

c. Iași city (university) - Murighiol - Otopeni (Bucharest) International Airport = 75 euro/person (we must cover the bus travel back to Iași city, finally). 

d. Iași city (university) - Tulcea - Otopeni (Bucharest) International Airport = 65 euro/person (we must cover the bus travel back to Iași city, finally). 

Very important note: 

We must ask the reservation for the Danube Delta trip no late than 10 March 2025, and it is necessary a pre-payment (50% of total amount/person) for this trip in the moment of reservation without possibility of cancellation after 10 April 2025.

For any supplementary information, please contact Dr. Carmen Gache via email: cgache@uaic.ro