Geographically, the city of Babadag doesn’t really belong to the Danube Delta. It is located somewhere between the hills, a few kilometers west of the Lake Babadag. [adsense]However, the story of the Tulcea County and the Danube Delta cannot be complete without it because it’s been one of the most important cities in the North…
Going down of the Sfântu Gheorghe channel, the first village you’ll see is Nufăru. It lies exactly at the point where the Danube makes a sudden left turn to avoid a rocky hill. [adsense]One of the most important things the you’ll find in Nufăru is the medieval fortress. While doing the excavations here, archeologists discovered…
Discover the fantastic beach of Sulina, one of the wildest beaches in Romania and one of the main attractions of the city.
I visited the Aquarium in Tulcea this Saturday. My uncle wanted to show my two-year-old cousin the museum that everybody is talking about, so we took the whole family for an intellectual expedition. [adsense]Last time I’ve been there was two years ago, just after the grand inauguration. It hasn’t changed much, only that this time…
It’s incredible how time can change thing in such a way that you can’t find any traces of a place’s past. Old buildings make room for new ones, old swamps are turned into tennis fields. [adsense]Something like that takes place in the village of Periprava. Historically, the place has always been isolated, being located far…
One of the most facinating place in the Delta that they taught us in school is Gura Portiței which, geographically speaking, was the only gap where the Razim-Sinoe lagoon could communicate with the Black sea. [adsense]Well, in 1970, that gap was finally closed and now Razim, Golovita and Sinoe are officially lakes. I’ve no idea…
Mila 23 is a small and chic village right in the heart of the Danube Delta. If you want to find out what it feels like to live completely surrounded by water, than this is the place to visit. [adsense]Without winning too many points for originality, the village has this name because the Sulina channel…