Guided tours…from home!

Alternative Tourism Association and Experience Romania are offering guided tours to different places in Romania, which can be „visited” from home. The first episode will take place in early May and will lead those curious to Ineleț hamlet in Domogled-Cerna Valley National Park, a hamlet which is isolated from the rest of the world permanently, not just in this period that we are experiencing.

Among the severely affected professions by the epidemic, are also the tour guides, who during this period can’t follow their passion: guiding groups of tourists to different interesting places . And because, even if we have to stay at home, we can’t sit for nothing, we came up with a way to „walk” the travelers through the wonderful places we visited. Thus, we are happy to announce the launch of the „Hidden Gems of Romania” project – a series of virtual guided tours that will be broadcast live on the Facebook pages of Alternative Tourism Association and Experience Romania, through which „tourists” will be able to get acquainted with fairy tale places, stories that can’t be found elsewhere and nice people.

The first episode of the project is called „Isolated in the Carpathians”, will be broadcast live on May 2nd, Saturday, at 16.00 GMT. Then, the „travelers” will be able to get acquainted with the Ineleț hamlet. Located in the commune of Cornereva, Caraş-Severin county, consisting in 40 villages, Ineleț is probably one of the most isolated villages in Romania: the shortest access is on a series of vertical wooden stairs, on a length of about a hundred meters, followed by a path „about two hours long”, through the forest and meadows . There is no electricity in the region, and in the small church built by the locals, only one marriage has been officiated in the last decade.

Come with us, on May 2nd, to Ineleț. You will find out how the locals climb the old wooden stairs, how the material for building the church was carried, what are the only sources of electricity in the village, or what is the reason why Nea Luca, one of the approximately 80 inhabitants left in the area, gets upset from time to time. 

Our guide will be Flavia Dragan, founder of Experience Romania and lecturer at the School of Alternative Tourism. The live will be broadcast on the Facebook pages „Alternative Tourism Association” and „Experience Romania”, on May 2nd, Saturday, starting at 16.00 GMT. Join us!