5-Day Hiking Tour in Romania with Mocanita Train and Horseback Riding

• Upon your arrival, your guide and bus driver will wait for you at the airport with a traditional welcome drink, or they can pick you up from your hotel in Cluj-Napoca or Oradea.

• Travel by bus to Borșa, where your accommodation is arranged at a family-run guesthouse or pension, with rooms offering outstanding views of the mountains.

• At dinner, enjoy a BBQ and a campfire, where Curly Guide will inform you about the activities for the next few days and the rules of the national park.

• Wake up at 7 o'clock in the morning.

• After breakfast, at around 8 o'clock, you will start hiking. The hike is manageable until reaching the Meteorological Weather Station, located at about 2000 m. This part of the route is about 4.5 kilometres long, with an altitude gain of 800 meters, and it should take around 2 hours.

• The first long stop will be at Glacier Lake, where you will have a picnic and rest your feet.

• Continue to Pietrosu Peak. The path to the peak constantly zig-zags until the top, which makes it challenging but accessible.

• The final ascent is made on rock-carved stairs, making it even easier.

• Enjoy the view and have a well-earned rest, after which you will descend on the same path to return to your accommodation. The hosts will be waiting for you with a traditional Romanian dinner.

• Wake up at 8 am and have breakfast.

• Afterwards, begin your journey by minibus to Vișeul de Sus. The trip takes 30 minutes.

• At 9 am, you will take the Mocanita steam train.

• See why Paltin Station is the turning point for the regular steam trains. During a longer stop of 1-2 hours, passengers can use the catering service provided by the CFF team. Plenty of covered and open-air seating is available.

• At 4 pm, you will return to Borșa. The hosts will be waiting for you with traditional Romanian food, and you will eat and enjoy a nice time together.

Vișeu de Sus departure: 09:00. Paltin (km 21.6)

Arrival approx.: 11:00

Vișeu de Sus arrival approx.: 15:30

Hiking Day - the largest waterfall in Romania and Stiol Lake

• Wake up at 9 am, and after breakfast, go by minibus to the chairlift in Borșa. The chairlift will take you up close to Horses Waterfall.

• After a 30-minute hike, reach this beautiful waterfall. The waterfall is 90 meters high. The water gathers like a pool on top of the mountain, then falls on the limestone mountainside, known as Horses Bridge, in several stages, making it the biggest waterfall in Romania.

• After enjoying Horses Waterfall, continue hiking on an easy route to Lake Stiol.

• In the evening, eat at a traditional restaurant in Borșa, Maramureș.

• Eat breakfast at 8 am.

• Travel to Budesti village. Budesti is home to one of the wooden churches on the UNESCO World Heritage list, where you will see the chain mail and helmet that belonged to Pintea Viteazul, a true "Robin Hood" from Maramureș.

• In Budesti, you will have an initiation horseback riding tour, a delicious traditional Romanian lunch, and a meeting with the locals.

• After all these days of adventure, you will talk about the beautiful places you have visited and the adventures you plan next.

• Leave the Natural Park with a smile on your face and a story your future nephew will want to hear about.

• Back to your accommodation or the airport in Cluj-Napoca or Oradea.