Private Full-Day Hiking Tour in Piatra Craiului National Park
Description
If you're an outdoor lover and are thrilled at the idea of spending the whole day outside, this trip is for you! Discover one of the most beautiful National Parks in Romania, the Piatra Craiului National Park. It's filled with canyons, mountain cabins and limestone ridges. Prepare for an easy to moderate hike, which will take us up to the Curmatura Cabin. The foods they serve are delicious! We can either eat there or you can bring your lunch with you. After lunch, we start descending towards the Prapastiile Zarnestilor Canyon, a marvelous area with impressive views, like those described in a fairytale.
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Itinerary
Enjoy a day of hiking in one of the most beautiful National Parks in Romania, Piatra Craiului National Park. With its white limestone and impressive ridge, this mountain has something to offer to every kind of hiker. The hike today offers everything from canyons to mountain cabins and white limestone ridges. Just be prepared for spectacular views.
Piatra Craiului mountains are always a challenge. The routes are beautiful, accessible, the places uncrowded, so stopping at Cabana Curmătura is always a good solution, especially since the small cottage is exactly at the intersection of the paths in Piatra Craiului. The cottage is built in a beautiful open meadow, known as Poiana Curmăturii. At the cottage there is a restaurant where you can taste simple Romanian food, or their famous home made pie.
If Piatra Craiului National Park is probably the best place to visit in Romania, then the Prapastiie Zarnestiului gorge is a must see landmark. Carved in spectacular rock walls with a length of about 2 km, the Prapastiile Zarnestilor gorge stands out with a monumental aspect due to the vertical walls, with heights exceeding 200 m in some places. In this area, the temperature drops quickly by several degrees, because the sun reaches inside the gorge for only a few hours a day, which offers you an opportunity to relax and rest in the coolness, during the summer.
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Pickup Locations & Times
Pick up time is at 8:30 A.M. from your accommodation in Brasov. Please send us the name of your hotel/hostel/apartment in Brasov. Thank you!
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Important Information
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- 12-15 km medium difficulty hike, approx. 1300 m elevation height.
- This trip is recommended for the hikers that are not for the first time on a mountain and have a bit of experience on how to approach various terrains.
- Mandatory gear: Hiking boots and clothes that suits the outside weather, back pack, 2 L water, rain coat , snacks/sandwiches/sweets/fruits for lunch
Reviews(16)
I have had zero experience in hiking/trekking. But like me, if you have Radu as your guide, you are in safe hands and great company!
Thank you very much for the 5 stars review :)
This experience was everything. Some parts were steep hiking and some easy. We had cloudy weather and nice and sunny. It was great to be guided Dinu, an experienced person who knew the ins and outs of the area. The views were amazing and the wild life on the way up and down was great. Highly recommend this hike to all that come to enjoy the fresh air and the pitoresc views.
Thank you for the 5 stars review :)
What a great experience! This was a beautiful hike with plenty of gorgeous views and copious amounts of wild flowers (on April 1st!). Radu, who grew up hiking these mountains, was a fantastic guide. Not only did he provide lots of information about the area, he also offered hiking poles and gaiters for the sometimes muddy trails. The weather forecast was for rain but we never had any. In fact, near the lodge, we even had some blue skies and the clouds moved enough to see the mountain summits. Fantastic experience. Highly recommended!!
Thank you for the wonderful review, so good to hear that you had good tme and weather. Indeed Radu is a great person!
I can’t say enough great things about Day Trips Brașov. Ramona is incredibly well organized and extremely knowledgeable. I also had Hea as a guide who was terrific. I used Day Trips Brașov for three private tours. The first was Bran Castle and Pestera Mountain Villages, the second Peleș Castle and the Bucegi Natural Park and the third was the full day Pestera hike. All three I would highly recommend. They are the perfect mix of history in the region and natural beauty.
Thank you very much for sharing wonderful experiences that you had during your 3 days tour :)
Ramona was an awesome guide on our hike. She accommodated all our varied skill levels. The scenery was outstanding!! The food at the hut was simple but delicious. I would highly recommend taking this hike with Ramona. Not to be missed.
Thank you for sharing your experience :)
NOT WORTH THE PRICE! As a solo traveler sometimes I book things last minute, I booked this trip a day before the hike, as soon as I booked I emailed the guide just to make sure that I am all set for the next day. NO one responded to me until the morning of the hike, the guide told me that she has a rule set that should not allow anyone to book 48 hrs prior. So the morning of the hike, she needed to find someone who would be able to be my guide. Honestly, I booked this because of all the great reviews regarding the tour guide, they were all great. Except that I DID NOT get the great guide, the tour guide I got was not the best. He was very slooow, did not talk much, and I feel like I wasted my money. This hike is not worth the money, it is a very quick and easy hike. If you are a hiker I would recommend getting a taxi and doing this hike on your own. Or make sure to get a tour guide that is younger and is able to tell you more stories .
Hi Linda, I'm really sorry for your experience. We are really trying hard to make everyone's tour amazing. Unfortunately I believe that was a technical problem with your booking, because the platform send me an email way to late, in the middle of the night when I was not awake. So, I saw the booking/message just in the morning, 30 minutes before the start of the tour, is not that we ignore your messages. And I contacted you straight away to find a solution. As well, we set up a window of 48 h before the tours when nobody can do bookings just to be able to organize everything better. But it seems that only this tour somehow got uncover. We already fix this thenical issue. I'm really sorry your paste didn't fit your guide paste and he didn't tell you enough stories. As we mention at the description, this kind of hike is not for very experienced hikers, is for the beginers/ intermediar level people that want to spend time in the nature, walk for 4 or 5 hours and see beautiful landscapes in a company of a guide., that will keep them safe. This is probably the reason he walk slowly. Again, I'm sorry for your experience and we are trying to learn from this and improve our level. Have a great day! Ramona .
Absolutely amazing hiking tour couldn't recommend it more. Stunning views, great workout and our guide Laurentiu was incredibly knowledgeable, friendly and just an all round lovely man to spend the day with. Won't regret booking it!
Sounds like you enjoyed your hike, thank you for the review
We had full day hiking tour to Piatra Craiului. It was perfect thanks to Ramona our tour guide. Ramona is professional and very experienced, very present and has a lot of knowledge. We enjoy the day very much. We will be back again for sure! Highly recommend! Thank you Ramona for a great day!
Hope to see you next year for another walk! Thank you for the fantastic review :)
Went on a hiking and emtb tours with Ramona. Both tour were fantastic. She speaks perfect english and knows what she is talking about. We can highly recommend Ramona as a guide.
Was great meting you guys, thank you for the positive feed back :)
I went on this hiking at the end of December, and it was an amazing experience, with different kind of landscapes throughout the day, lots of snow and great views. Having an experienced guide in these hikings is very important, specially if you are not familiar with the regions, since the Forrest can be very dense, with lots of different paths it would be easy to get lost. And although it was around 5/6 hours hike (and we are beginners!) it went really well, as we walked at our own pace, with stop midway for a typical Romanian lunch in a cute cabin :) Ramona was very helpful even before the trip started, explaining the material needed and always answering our questions through WhatsApp! She also gave us lots of tips during the hike (and lended some equipment to walk easily in the snow), very knowledgeable of the region and the Romanian culture in general. Basically we couldn’t be more happy with this tour, I really recommend to anyone looking for a great day at the nature!!
Was great meeting you guys, thank you very much for the detailed review :)
