Top Sibiu Nature and Wildlife Tours

Opt for a self-guided tour that brings the medieval history of Sibiu to life with an immersive app that reveals the Old Town via a series of clues and riddles. Ideal for families and those that prefer to travel independently, this game allows you to explore at your own pace while also orienting yourself in the capital of Transylvania.

Transylvania is famous for its Gothic landmarks, but appreciating their historical significance on a self led tour can be difficult. Discover the medieval past of Bran Castle and learn more about its association with Bram Stoker’s Dracula on a tour from Sibiu, then explore the historic city of Brașov and its Gothic architecture, with insights provided by your guide. Relax after a day’s sightseeing with hotel pickup and drop-off included.

Delve into the ancient history of Transylvania during a private tour of Bran Castle (Dracula’s Castle) and Rasnov Fortress from Sibiu. An ideal introduction for first-time visitors, this private tour ensures you receive the undivided attention of your guide and comes with the flexibility to tweak your itinerary to include additional stops. Plus, letting someone else drive gives you more time to enjoy the area’s spectacular scenery.

Play king of the road on this private full-day tour along the Transfagarasan Highway, starting in Sibiu. Meet your professional driver and guide in Sibiu, then strap into your personal car and kick back for the ride of a lifetime, on one of Romania’s most iconic roads. Watch the dramatic Carpathian Mountains roll by beyond the window as you listen to your choice of music. Just be sure to make a few pitstops along the way, at some of Romania’s friendly towns.

The most beautiful mountain road in Romania, just one hour drive from Sibiu. Multiple stops for admiring and capture in photos the breathtaking mountain scenery. A comprehensive set of information from a licensed tour guide. Modern, air-conditioned minivan. Tricks to avoid heavy traffic.

Highlights: Enjoy the view of the amazing Transfagarasan Road Have a lunch near Balea glacial Lake Visit the unique Clay Castle in Fairy Valley

Experience some of Transylvania's lesser-known natural and cultural treasures on this full-day combo tour from Sibiu. Take the scenic alpine Transfagarasan highway, one of Europe's highest road, into the Fagaras Mountains, where you'll hike to the glacial Balea Lake. Admire the diverse architecture of Romania at the Gothic Cistercian Abbey near Cârţa and the stately 18th-century Brukenthal Palace, a masterwork of Baroque style.

This eleven day tour begins in Sibiu, the "capital" of Transylvania. As we embark on our road trip throughout Transylvania we will visit a fairy-tale castle, several fortified and wooden churches, immerse ourselves in a rural Roma (gypsy) village, spend two nights in the rural north Maramures region of Romania visiting the unusual Merry Cemetery and also a communist prison, several UNESCO World Heritage sites, and walking tours. Each night's lodging is in a quaint city centre boutique hotel or a rustic rural inn.  We'll take a first-class night train (which you will love or hate!) to Bucharest, Romania's capital. Our final full day we travel by subway and bus to learn about the Ruth School in the Ferentari neighborhood. The afternoon is free to explore Bucharest - making it a memorable day. Our closing meal at this historic Hanu Lui Manuc, which has been welcoming foreign guests and the Romanian elite since 1808, will bring our tour to a close. Have final night in Old Town

In the morning you will be transferred to Aposu, at Villa Abbatis, the starting location of your adventurous day trip. After your arrival at Villa Abbatis, we take  Stejerișu (Probstdorf) path, where a small Saxon community is still to be found and is happy to share their stories with us. We will go up in the Speck Tour and taste speck, green onions, oven-baked bread and the local brandy. Mr Misch will explain all about this old custom of keeping speck supplies up in the tower and why Saxons were not allowed to touch their own supply until the first thunder in the new year was to be heard. For those of you who are vegetarians, there is a variety of cheeses available. After we start eating in the tower and under the spell of brandy we are going for a proper lunch cooked Saxon. Don’t eat too much even if is delicious because we still have to walk around in the village and talk about the local architecture than take the way back. 

Huts, Sheepfolds and Burduf* – Sheep Happens Sheep Happens is an ecotourism tour that propose you a getaway weekend, in the heart of the Lotrului and Cindrel Mountains, far from the hustle and bustle, from the technology and the everyday routine. We want to discover together how is traditional Romanian cheese manufactured, the experience of sleeping in the barn, how the sheep are taken for lunch, how is a haystack made and other daily activities of the locals, everything along with tasty, authentic meals. Burduf* - salty type of Romanian cheese, made with sheep milk with a strong flavor and slightly soft in texture

Our proposal for nature lovers and active – your day will start at 10:00 when we will pick you up in you hotel in Sibiu – drive to a village at the foothill of the Cindrel Mountains – walk through the pastures and woods and discover the vast array of wild edibles lying all over – enjoy a picnic with local products – return to Sibiu where you cook togehter a menu insipred by your day enjoying local, seasonal and fresh wild ingredients Tours daily from Thursday to Sunday (20.04 – 31.10.2020), minimum 4 adults. Included services: – transportation from/to your hotel in Sibiu – English speaking local guide / forager – lunch box for the picnic with local products – 3 course dinner with seasonal food and wild ingredients

A professional guided birdwatching trip, starting from Sibiu. Can be a birding tour done by car or can be mixed, car and trekking, depending by your choise, we can design the tour according to your desire. Sibiu surroundings offers different areal for birding, from water birds on Olt River reservoirs to alpine birds, in top of the mountains. It is very helpful for us, if we know some of the species you want to see so we can draw a proper route for you. Our guides are very good professionals, from Sibiu area and they know the places very well. We are doing this tour all year around, every season is interesting and offers a good number of species. Please tell us your prioritary species you wan to see, so we’ll know how to design your route. On all tours, we will go by car to the places but there, we need to walk a little, some species can be seen close to the places were we can drive the car, other need some low-medium trekking.

A hiking tour of two days, in Sibiu area, in Fagaras Mountains, just for birding, with a professional birder guide. The guide know the places very well, he know where and when to find different species of birds. Target species: Lesser Spotted Eagle (Clanga pomarina), Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), Spotted Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes), White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus), Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus), White-backed Woodpecker (Dendrocopos leucotos), Eurasian Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium passerinum), Ring Ouzel (Turdus torquatus), Water Pipit (Anthus spinoletta), Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris) and many others.

Explore the most impressive mountains from Romania nicknamed " Transilvanian " Alps,a stretch of peaks, holes and saddles which are scattered on an area of around 2. 400 km² Be prepared to put your skills at work. Take pictures  and admire unique landscapes, glacial doms, alpin lakes and out of range flora and fauna.