A Special Experience in Brasov Transylvania
Spot the Brown Bears of the Carpathians!
Join a small group wildlife experience, guided by a wildlife profesional !
This is a special experience first-time-visitor in Romania!
1. Experience Overview
The experience takes place in the afternoon – evening starting from Brașov, Old Town. Start times are set to be 16:00 16:30 , 17: 30. It is going to be a 30 min drive into the forest , then a 15 min walkto the wildlife observatory . Our waiting time inside the observatory is 2 hours, 2 hours and a half . Return time is mared soon after dark 20:00 , 21:00, 21:30 .
2. Experience Preparation
Each bear experience requires dark clothing, appropiate shoes for walking in the forest and lack of flagrant and smelly cosmetics .
Keeping Your quiet , seriousity and perseverence all the time to maximize sighting potential. Keeping Your phone at the lowest brightness and on silent or even Air-plane mode helps maintaining a low profile.
Bears areactive in the evening or are nocturnal. Schedgule You restaurant dinner later than usual for adecvate timming on Your return.
3. Enjoying While on Tour
Accessibility into bear observatory is influenced by terrain, wheater and road conditions, and it does not require any physical challenges, only walking independently or being able to climb and descend stairs unnatended. Your shoes might get wet or muddy. That is all !!
All bears are wild and not used with any human presence ! You can survey them safely inside the observatory, take photos and find details about their secret life underneath the canopy. Your guide is a trurstful and knowladgeble comapanion and will keep you safe and wildlife-entertained.
3. Booking
Schedule one visit and find more about this wonderful creature directly into the forest!
Price : 55 euros/person.
Bookings are reccorded by email or by phone or even Whats up message – Cosmin Z . Minimum advance notice 2 days.
Sometimes Cosmin Z. is out in the wild for preparations or guiding and it takes ussualy one -two days to keep track and answer Your request.
Bear Facts about Our Wild Stars
Romania has the largest brown bear population in Europe o, over 6800 individuals and population number is gradually rising, especially that the bears are a protected specie !!
Brasov is the perfect area for bearwatching
Brașov and the surrounding areas has the largest bear population density in Romania, so spotting bears in the wild comes with high chances of success.
Why people are atracted to bears?
No other creature on Earth gives this hypnotic sensation of following it everywhere it goes underneath the canopy. Watching a bear from a distance and in quietness and in natural is pleasant and almost magical experience.Some people cherish them , some people fear them. It is a once in a lifetime experience ! For sure, will change human perception about these gentle giants.
How brown bears adapt to climate change and environment changes?
The morphology of brown bears had changed little since the last Ice Age, so some specialists include this charismatic giant as being a carnivore. In reality, bears had made a giant adaptation leap by changing their diet from meat eater and scavenger to almost an exclusively diet, so brown bears are true omnivores. Evolution by context will say if this giant will be changing also his physical morphology in the next 10 000 years. There is also the chance that his diet will be a temporary adaptation while bears will ,,wait,, for humans to go extinct and wildlife to repopulate Europe. What do You think?
How everything started for this experience?
Our wildlife enthusiasm about organizing tours started around 12 years ago when Cosmin Z., guide manager, forestry engineer and founder of Myosotique Wild, dared to implement the Bear watching program in Brașov for the Local Wildlife Administration.
Why joining the tour ?
Foresters , my colegues, recieved the news with shock and scepticism . Since then, we have learned a lot by surveying and monitoring the bears and sharing knowledge about wildlife management for our guests. I think this bear watching is the only suistainable financial activity for these gentle giants , in contrast for hunting activity. A big hug and a great thank You for supporting the bears by joining the tour!
More Details about the Bear Watching Visit
The visit will begin by picking You up from Brașov in the afternoon-evening for a drive into the forest in a rural area East from Brasov , where the Carpathin arch makes a curve.
On the way, the guide will present details about the bear management in Romania and will give information about the bears in the area.
A short walk in the forest will conduct us to the specially designed observatories, tracking in the meantime the passing wildlife (deer, wild boars, foxes, bears or even wolves or people). Observatioes are build like real small cabanas with large windows, where You can photograph and film the arriving bears!
It will be a two to tree hours waiting game and observation, statistics showing around 80% chances to spot bears. There will be silence and green and forest but there is no time to read a book. Your wildlife guide will keep You focus so time will simply fly!
Our return takes place before dark and will end by dropping You back in Brașov.
The bear visit is safe and we didn’t have a single aggressive display in 6 Years. We hope to keep it that way and, for additional safety, the guide has a pepper spray or sometimes armed guard is assured. Our knowledge about bears is our trust and our group member quality is our advantage!
The visit is suitable for all travelers all ages, including families with kids,couples and seniors. Disabilities persones are welcomed in seperate groups with special preparationsand notice if needed. This visit is a special ,,must do it in Brașov,, and an ideal ,,first time visitor to Romania,, travelers said! To make a booking please leave a message in the form on website, WhatsApp, email or telephone listed on the contact form, at least 24 hours before the experience starts.
“See You soon in the Wild!”
GET IN TOUCH: COSMIN Z. – Guide Manager
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