VOYAGE AT A GLANCE 7 CRUISE DAYS
Budapest to Bucharest Day Destination
1 Arrive Budapest Boscolo Budapest
2 Budapest
3 Embark Budapest 4 Pecs / Mohács 5 Vukovar / Novi Sad 6 Belgrade 7 Cruise Kazan Narrows & Iron Gate 8 Ruse 9 Constanta, Black Sea Coast
10 Disembark Constanta / Bucharest JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel
11 Bucharest 12 Depart Bucharest
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Bucharest to Budapest Day Destination 1
2 Bucharest
Bucharest / Constanta Embark Constanta
4 Ruse 5 Vidin 6 Cruise Iron Gate & Kazan Narrows 7 Belgrade 8 Vukovar 9 Mohács / Pecs 10
Disembark Budapest Boscolo Budapest
11 Budapest 12 Depart Budapest
Serbian performers. Dinner this evening, a Tauck Exclusive, is at the Royal Palace of Belgrade, built in the 1920s for the Yugoslavian royal family; HRH Crown Prince Alexander II of Serbia and his family reside there today. Meals BLD
7. THROUGH THE DANUBE’S IRON GATE Winding lazily for much of its length, the Danube suddenly narrows into a series of high cliffs to create four steep, spectacular gorges – the Kazan Narrows and the Iron Gate of the Danube. Pass through this dramatic landscape as you
cruise along the Serbian-Romanian border. Along the way, look for a monument to the 2nd-century Dacian King Decebalus, a Romanian national hero, carved into the Danube’s rocky bank; it’s Europe’s tallest rock sculpture, completed in 2004 after a decade of work by a dozen sculptors. Savor views of the Transylvanian Alps as you cruise to Bulgaria. Meals BLD
8. BULGARIAN ARCHITECTURE & ART A leisurely morning cruise takes you to Bulgaria, the oldest state in Europe. Enigmatic and off limits during four centuries of Ottoman Rule and decades behind the Iron Curtain, today the country is a treasure trove of natural beauty and history. Disembark after lunch in Ruse, sometimes referred to as
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Arrive Bucharest JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel
AUSTRIA Budapest SLOVENIA CROATIA Pecs Vukovar SLOVAKIA HUNGARY ROMANIA Mohács Novi Sad Belgrade SERBIA Iron Gate Targoviste i Bucharest v BULGARIA e r Maximum Elevation: 1,776 ft. Ruse
Bran Castle Peles
Castle Mamaia Constanta Cernavoda
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MOLDOVA
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PACE 2
Visit larger-than-life Heroes’ Square (left) in Budapest; enjoy a Tauck Exclusive dinner at the secluded royal palace in Belgrade and get a taste of the Serbian aristocratic lifestyle (right)
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