Tour Details

3 days trip

The mighty Danube River flows 1,788 miles from its springs in Germany’s Black Forest Mountains to the Black Sea. Just before reaching the sea it forms the second largest and best preserved of Europe’s deltas: 2,200 square miles of rivers, canals, marshes, tree-fringed lakes and reed islands.

The Danube Delta is a wildlife enthusiast’s (especially a bird watcher’s) paradise.Travelers can spend three or more days exploring the place with the highest concentration of bird colonies in all of Europe. Million of Egyptian white pelicans arrive here every spring to raise their young, while equal numbers of Arctic geese come here to escape the harsh winters of Northern Europe. Danube Delta is home to 300 species of birds, including cormorants, white tailed eagles and glossy ibises. The bird watching season lasts from early spring to late summer.

There is also a rich community of fish and animals; from wildcats, foxes and wolves, to even an occasional boar or deer. Altogether, 3,450 animal species can be seen here, as well as 1,700 plant species.

The Danube River is the most international river on the planet – its course runs across — or forms a part of the borders of several countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and four capitals: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade.

» The Delta is formed around the three main channels of the Danube, named after their respective ports: Chilia (in the north), Sulina (in the middle), and Sfantul Gheorghe (in the south).

» The Danube Delta Biosphere Reservation has the third largest biodiversity in the world and is exceeded only by the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Galapagos Archipelago in Ecuador.

» The Danube Delta is home to over 60% of the world’s population of pygmy cormorants (phalacrocorax pygmeus), 50% of red-breasted geese (branta ruficollis) and the largest number of white pelicans (pelecanus onocrotalus) and Dalmatian pelicans (pelecanus crispus) in Europe.

» It also is home to the world’s largest reed bed: 625, 000 acres / 240,000 ha.

» Some 15,000 people inhabit the Delta area, living in 28 villages and one city (Sulina).

» More than a half of the Delta Biosphere Reservation is virtually intact.