Danube Delta

Ecologically, The Danube Delta is a place unique in Europe while from the tourist point of view, it is one of the most outstanding and valuable areas from Romania.
The Danube Delta is known as the European paradise of birds. Every year it is visited by over 300 species of 'feathered friends of man' that represent 5 migratory areas: Mediterranean, European, Siberian, Mongolian and Chinese. The zone is known as the nesting place of many rare species of birds strictly protected through the provisions of the Bern Convention. For example: the pelican, the crane, the dwarf cormorant, the red-necked goose, the eastern flossy ibis, the spoon bill, the small and the great heron and the white-tailed eagle, the swan.
As to the fish, the Danube Delta could be described as the paradise of fishermen. They can find here over 64 species of fish like carp, pike, herring and the famous sturgeons - nisetrul, morunul and pastruga, the 'producers' of the Romanian caviar - which have made well-known the small fishermen villages such as Chilia and Sfantu Gheorghe.
Among the rare and the luxurious vegetation, there are almost extinct plant species, protected by the international conventions: (angelica, otratel and pestisoara) and over 3,400 fauna species out of which 2,200 being insects. Among the mammals there are short hair 'mammals: foxes, enots, wild boars, minks, ermines, lynx.

The banks of the exotic Delta are guarded by swamp plants, white and yellow lilies, flouting islands of plaur and secular weeping willows, dark poplars and forests of oaks covered with climbing plants, creating the impression of a jungle.
From Danube Delta 's surface of 434.000 hectares almost 300.000 hectares is covered with reeds, representing the largest area of this kind known in the world.
The natural environment is completed by the intriguing historical and cultural objectives that surrounds it.
The Danube Delta has been declared ecological area of international interest by the Ramsar Convention - as the habitat of the migratory birds - and listed by UNESCO as international natural patrimony under the name of 'The Biosphere Reservation of the Danube Delta '. In these conditions, fishing and hunting for pleasure is restricted to places and periods already established by law.
A net of channels, swamps, lakes represents the main way of travelling in the Delta and in the same time places for rest, nautical pleasure, sightseeing, fishing and hunting. The municipality town of Tulcea is the 'gate', the starting point of the ship routs to this incredible savage world of Delta (Letea Forest, Caraoman Sandbanks, Fortuna and Matita Lakes, the fisher village Mila 23 etc).