Packages and Options

Day 1: Transfer to hotel in Bucharest. Overnight in Bucharest (***hotel)
Day 2: Short walk to train station (3 min.). Pleasant train journey to Suceava. Transfer to Putna monastery. You will be welcomed by Father Dosoftei, who speaks English and you will enjoy this beautiful monastery with its Arcadian setting, and above all, the great hospitality of the monastery. Two nights in the ****guesthouse of the monastery.
Day 3:  Round walk Putna
Visit the monastery, a foundation of Stefan the Great. It is the most important spiritual center of Romanian Orthodoxy and played a significant role in the Romanian history. Worthwhile visiting is the museum with priceless artifacts and treasures. During a round walk, you will visit  Sihastria monastery and you will have a beautiful birds’ eye view from one of the hills of the impressive Putna monastery.  4 h (can be shortened to 3 h or 1 h)
Day 4:  Putna - Sucevita
From Putna you take the old monastery path to Sucevita monastery. In summer, the forest is full of berries and wild mushrooms. The undercoat of emerald green on which the superb frescoes are painted (1596) gave the monastery the name ‘a Poem in Green and Light’. The iconostasis is supposed to be the most beautiful one in the country. Sacherverell Sitwell wrote in 1938: “The first view of the painted church of Sucevita is among the most impressive revelations of the Byzantine world”. The little museum house the most precious collection of medieval art in Moldovia. Including medieval embroidered portraits and an epitaph with 1000 pearls. Two nights in Sucevita. 5 h  
Day 5:  Moldovita and round walk Sucevita
A car takes you over the Ciumirna pass with astounding panoramic mountain views. Visit Moldovita monastery, famous for its warmth and brilliance of its frescoes. The blue undercoat for its tree of Jesse gave the monastery the name ‘a parchment dipped in blue color’. Very beautiful is the Ladder of Paradise, which has the ascetical mystic of John Klimakos as a theme and the depiction of the ancient philosophers. Maybe you meet Sister Tatiana (she speaks some English) who will show you around. The little museum contains, besides a priceless silver-cased Evangelistary presented by Catherine the Great of Russia, valuable icons and miniatures. Back in Sucevita you may have a round walk and enjoy the birds eye view upon the impressive, fortified monastery. 2 ½  h (or 1 ½ h)
Day 6: Sucevita - Humor
Short transfer to Solca village, then walk through pastoral scenery passing friendly Polish villages founded during Austrian-Habsburg times to Humor. You will meet horse wagons loaded with hay. People are still working with sickles and scythes on the fields. The 16th C Humor monastery, which exudes friendliness and tranquil charm, is painted in warm blues, greens and reddish browns (from oriental madder pigment). Two nights in a very pleasant ***guesthouse (English speaking) in Humor. 4 ½ h (or 3 ½ h)
Day 7: Humor – Voronet - Humor
Visit Voronet monastery. “Voronet-Blue” is the key word. Its superb frescoes gave it the name ‘the Sistine Chapel of the East’. Architecturally it combines Gothic and Byzantine features. Petru Comanescu still holds its truth: ”…here in the clear mellow light of those parts of the walls of the church seem to have stolen the sparking blue of the sky, the green of the trees and the pastures, the gold of the sun and the red of the flowers growing in the peasants gardens”. Walk up to the Objina with good views over a valley and villages scattered around till you reach Humor. 4 ½ h
Day 8: Transfer to Suceava. Early train to Bucharest and departure.