Wildlife Photo Tour to the Danube Delta, 5d/4n SHARED 2025 / 2026
Join an wildlife photo adventure in the heart of the Danube Delta, where nature comes alive through your lens! Explore this UNESCO-listed wetland on guided boat tours, designed specifically for photographers. Glide through narrow channels and vast reed beds, capturing the stunning diversity of birdlife, including pelicans, egrets, and cormorants, along with other wildlife such as otters and wild horses. With expert guidance, you’ll access prime locations for both wildlife and landscape photography, ensuring you get the perfect shots in one of Europe’s most breathtaking natural environments. Ideal for photographers of all levels seeking an immersive experience in the wild!
These are tours dedicated to enthusiast or professional photographers, who want to discover and photograph the rich fauna of Danube Delta. This program includes 3 days of boat trips plus the two boat transfers from Tulcea to Mila23 and return.
It is a photography tour, with flexible routes according to Danube Delta conditions, weather, water level or any other field information. Also, we can adapt the schedule according to bird flocks spots, the species of birds you would like to photograph or other types of attractions you want to photograph. We can spend more time in one place, track and photograph different birds and/or animals.
We are going with up to 4 people on a boat with 4 double benches (one person per line of seats). Every photographer can shoot on any direction.
The price of this tour is:
900 euro/pers
The price is per person (accommodation in double room), per tour and it is in euro (EUR).
160 euro/pers/program single supplement
*We offer double rooms only for clients booking together. If you book for 1 persons, you’ll have a single room.
Data for this program in 2025:
Period | Places | Price |
|---|---|---|
12 Jun - 16 Jun | 900 | |
24 Jul - 28 Jul | 900 | |
7 Aug - 11 Aug | 900 | |
11 Sep - 15 Sep | 900 | |
9 Oct - 13 Oct | 900 |
Data for this program in 2026:
Period | Places | Price |
|---|---|---|
23 Apr - 27 Apr | 900 | |
14 May - 18 May | 900 | |
28 May - 1 Jun | 900 | |
11 Jun - 15 Jun | 900 | |
23 Jul - 27 Jul | 900 | |
27 Aug - 31 Aug | 900 | |
10 Sep - 14 Sep | 900 |
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Booking
- Bookings are based on 30% deposit.
The price includes
- ENGLISH guidance
- 3 Days Guided Boat Photo Tours
- Accommodation (4 nights) at 3* local guesthouse in Mila23, in double rooms, bathroom en-suite.
- Full board (dinner on Day1; breakfast, lunch and dinner on Days2 -4; breakfast on Day5)
- Transfers by boat from Tulcea to Mila 23 and return
- Fees for visiting the Danube Delta
Optionally:
- Lunch meal – the price is 15-25 euro/pers (payment directly in cash, RON or EUR, on the spot)
- Bucharest (including Airport) transfers – 300 euro/car/one way for 1-6 persons
The price does not include:
- Beverages, other than water
- Lunch meal
- Insurance of any kind (travel, goods, etc.)
Children policy:
- Minimum age to participate is 12
- Children over 12 years are charged as adults
- Responsibility of children’s supervision during trips belong to parents
- All children will wear life jackets during boat trips
Cancellation policy:
- More then 90 days before the program you can postpone the trip (you will receive a voucher available 2 years).
- Less then 90 days before the trip, the deposit is non refundable.
The program is as follows
Day 1: Departure time from Tulcea, from Port Aval – Tulcea, is at 16:00. We wait for you half an hour before this time, in order to fix payments (if any) and other details. You will go to Mila23 and check in at the guesthouse. The transfer takes 2-2,5 hours. During the transfer, we have enough time to talk about our route, Danube Delta peculiarities, nature photography, rules and behavior in a natural reserve and the program for next two days.
In the evening, the host will wait for you with a traditional dinner based on fish (if you have any food restrictions, please let us know when you make the booking).
The trip to Mila23 is on a very beautiful route, full of photographic subjects; the twilight is perfect for the route to Mila23. We will not travel on the Danube but on small canals and wild lakes, constantly looking for new subjects to photograph.
Days 2-3-4: Our trip into the Danube Delta will begin early in the morning, before sunrise, to catch its magic light and birds that begin to feed. The morning tour takes about 5-6 hours and you will have the breakfast to go or on return to the accommodation. After the morning session, you will return to the guesthouse to have some rest. With 4 hours before sunset, you will start for the evening session. You will travel to different places in Danube Delta, the routes being decided on a day to day basis, depending on weather conditions, water level and our guides experience. After taking your last shots in the dusk, you will come back to the accommodation. Don’t forget to download your photos and recharge your batteries!
We will be looking for the stars of these places: Pelicans, both the White and the rare Dalmatians. Of course, we will be looking for any kind of bird, starting with the common Little and Great Egrets, Gray, Purple, Yellow, or Night Heron, the agile Kingfisher, the majestic White-tailed Eagle and noisy Coots. We will also look for surf birds or birds that look for food in muddy stretches: Godwits, Spoonbills, Ibises, Ruffs, Stilts and others.
Of course we will not neglect the mammals, we will always seek to find the playful otters, the cautious wild boars, the elegant roe deer, the funny muskrats or the beautiful raccoon dog.
Lunch is optional (you can order it to the guesthouse). Dinner is at the guesthouse.
Day 5: After a relaxed breakfast (8:30 a.m.), this time without sunrise session, you will return to Tulcea, but now, in the morning, you will have the best light for this route. This is a good chance to have good pictures from the fantastic Danube Delta. Around 12:00-12:30 you will be back to Tulcea and end our tour.
Conservation Focus
Nature comes first in everything we do. Our tours are designed to minimize impact and protect the delicate ecosystem of the Danube Delta, ensuring that its rich biodiversity thrives for generations to come.
🚤 Eco-Friendly Boating: We use lower-power engines than typically required for our boats. This reduces water disturbance, minimizes fuel consumption and lowers emissions, keeping the Delta’s waters cleaner and healthier.
🐟 Slow-Speed Exploration: Our approach is gentle and respectful. By moving at a slow, steady pace, we:
- Protect aquatic vegetation, essential for fish breeding and water filtration.
- Prevent erosion and disturbance to bird nests along the shoreline.
- Reduce stress on migratory and resident bird species, allowing for natural behavior and better wildlife observation.
🌍 Sustainable Nature Experiences: We believe in responsible tourism that prioritizes conservation over speed. Every tour is an opportunity to admire, respect and learn about this unique biosphere without leaving a harmful footprint.
By choosing our tours, you actively support a more sustainable way of exploring the Danube Delta. Let’s protect nature together, one slow, mindful journey at a time.
Destination
The Danube Delta, Romania.
Sea level altitude, wetland.
Climate
Temperature vary from 1-25 °C spring/fall; 20-40 °C summer.
On water
Boat activity, please make sure all your gear is proper protected.
Warnings
Morning can be chill, please bring proper clothes and footwear.
Details
Accommodation
Your accommodation for this photo tour is made in double or single rooms, in one of our exclusive locations in Mila23 Village, Danube Delta, depending by our availability. All the guesthouses are 3* rated, have small capacity (7-8 rooms), owned and run by locals, offers authentic local food. All room have en-suite bathrooms.
The boat
This trip is done with an OPEN BOAT. The boat we are using for this photo tour has been built specifically for this activity. The boat is very stable, with low level sides, so you can shoot almost at the water level, you’ll have same level eye contact with the birds on water. All tour participants will change places between them during the photo sessions, so each one of you will be seated at a time on the first or last bench.
Have with you
- Photo equipment; we recommend a minimum of 300mm lens (possibly a converter too), plus other smaller lens for landscapes or macro shots
- Plenty of storage space for your photos
- An abundance of batteries. Because we will leave in the morning and come back at lunch, you will not have access to outlets for battery charging or downloading memory cards
- Special backpack for you photo equipment ( waterproof or rain covered )
- Tripod or monopod
- Raincoat
- Insects repellent
- Sunscreen
- Season appropriate clothing, long robes are mandatory, trousers, shirt and a sun hat or you will get a sun burn. Clothing with colors close to nature are recommended; red, white, yellow and blue are to be avoided
- Sunglasses
Group Confirmation
This program is running with minimum 2 persons subscribed.
Shared Program
Being a SHARED program, this means the whole group goes with the same car/boat, at the same hours (hours detailed in the program). Please be on board at scheduled time for both.
Photo tours
If you have target species you want to photograph, please let us know, we’ll do our best to take you on good places for this species (if it’s possible).
Contact
Email: contact@discoverdanubedelta.com
Phone: (Voice, SMS, WatsApp): +40 757 894 456 | +40 749 120 009
* For bookings or requests, we always prefer to communicate by email. Thank you!
