# Deltas — tourist attractions in Romania [Romania](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/attractions) › [Categories](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/categories) > The Danube Delta and the country's small deltas: channels, marshes, reeds and water birds. The Danube Delta is the largest and best known, but the deltas of Romania are several: the Danube forms another at Balta Mică a Brăilei, the Neajlov at Comana, south of Bucharest, and Văcărești, an unfinished reservoir in the capital, has become a small urban delta, with birds, foxes and otters. The landscape is the same, on a different scale: channels, reeds, marshes, floating reed islands and willows, and a world of water birds best seen in spring, from a boat, early in the morning. The Danube Delta is entered by boat from Tulcea, Murighiol or Jurilovca; the others are explored on foot or by bicycle. The [Danube Delta](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/delta-dunarii), a biosphere reserve and UNESCO site, is visited from its villages, Crișan, Mila 23, Sfântu Gheorghe, or from [Gura Portiței](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gura-portitei), on the sandbar between [Lake Razim](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lacul-razim) and the sea. [Balta Mică a Brăilei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/balta-mica-a-brailei) and the [Neajlov Delta](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/delta-neajlovului) are day trips from Brăila and Bucharest respectively; the [Văcărești Delta](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/delta-vacaresti) can be visited right from the city. For the map, the villages and the sights of the Danube Delta, see the [Danube Delta guide](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/guides/delta-dunarii). ## Tourist attractions 20 attractions - [Danube Delta](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/danube-delta) — Deltas · Tulcea County · 5 lei/day · 7½ – 8 hours · UNESCO World Heritage · Top 20 Europe's largest wetland, a biosphere reserve and UNESCO site: channels, lakes, reed beds and 365 bird species, from pelicans to egrets; visited by boat from Tulcea. - [Văcărești Nature Park (the Văcărești Delta)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/vacaresti-nature-park) — National parks and reserves · București · Free · 1½ – 2 hours · Top 100 Romania's first urban nature park: 183 ha of ponds, reed beds and willows inside an abandoned reservoir in southern Bucharest, home to over 180 bird species, otters and foxes, a few hundred metres from the tower blocks. - [Neajlov Delta](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/neajlov-delta) — National parks and reserves · Comana, GR · 5 lei · 2½ – 3 hours The roughly 1,200 ha Neajlov marsh in Comana Natural Park, with channels, reed beds and waterbirds, less than an hour from Bucharest; seen by small boat, rowing boat or kayak. - [Balta Mică a Brăilei](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/balta-mica-a-brailei) — Deltas · Brăila, BR · 80 lei · 1½ – 2 hours The last stretch of free-flooding Danube floodplain between Giurgeni and Brăila: seven river islands, 52 lakes and over 200 bird species, reached only by boat. - [Caraorman Forest](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/caraorman-forest) — National parks and reserves · Caraorman, TL · 5 lei/day · 3½ – 4 hours · UNESCO World Heritage A strict nature reserve in the heart of the Danube Delta: oaks more than 400 years old, including the Kneeling Oak, and the highest sand dunes in the delta, on the Caraorman sand bank. - [Sfântu Gheorghe Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sfantu-gheorghe-beach) — Seaside · Sfântu Gheorghe, TL · 5 lei · 4½ – 5 hours The wild beach where the Sfântu Gheorghe branch meets the Black Sea: 30 km of fine sand, 2 km from a Delta village that can only be reached by water. - [Sulina](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sulina) — Deltas · Sulina, TL · 5 lei/day · 3½ – 4 hours Romania's easternmost town, at the mouth of the Sulina arm, with no road to the rest of the country: a port with an international past, the Old Lighthouse, the European Commission of the Danube palace and the maritime cemetery. - [Sulina Beach](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sulina-beach) — Seaside · Sulina, TL · 5 lei · 3½ – 4 hours Romania's easternmost beach, where the Sulina branch meets the Black Sea: very fine alluvial sand, an unusually wide strip and water that stays shallow for tens of metres. - [Lake Razim](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/lake-razim) — Lakes · Sarichioi, TL · Free Romania's largest lake, a lagoon of about 415 km² south of the Danube Delta, with Lipovan fishing villages on its shores, protected islands and the ruins of Enisala and Argamum above the water. - [Periprava](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/periprava) — Villages and traditions · Periprava, TL · 5 lei/day · 2½ – 3 hours A Lipovan village in the north of the Danube Delta, at the end of the Navrom line on the Chilia arm, next to the Letea forest; a forced-labour colony for prisoners operated here under communism. - [Sfântu Gheorghe (Danube Delta)](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/sfantu-gheorghe) — Villages and traditions · Sfântu Gheorghe, TL · 5 lei/day · 3½ – 4 hours A fishing village where the Sfântu Gheorghe arm meets the Black Sea, with no road in: you arrive by water, and the village has its church, the 1967 lighthouse and a 30 km beach 2 km away. - [Tulcea](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/tulcea) — Deltas · Tulcea, TL · Free · 2½ – 3 hours The Danube port town where the ships to the Danube Delta leave from: the waterfront with the River Station, the Independence Monument on the hill, the Azizie Mosque and the aquarium. - [Crișan](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/crisan) — Villages and traditions · Crișan, TL · 5 lei/day · 1½ – 2 hours Fishing village on the Sulina branch in the middle of the Danube Delta, with no road: a call for the Navrom Delta ship, with an ARBDD information centre and the launches to Mila 23 and Caraorman. - [Murighiol](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/murighiol) — Villages and traditions · Murighiol, TL · 5 lei/day · 3½ – 4 hours A village on the edge of the Danube Delta, ~38 km from Tulcea, with a harbour on the Sfântu Gheorghe arm, where the boat routes to the southern lakes, Uzlina and Gura Portiței set out. - [Chilia Veche](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/chilia-veche) — Villages and traditions · Chilia Veche, TL · 5 lei/day · 1½ – 2 hours A village in the north of the Danube Delta, on the bank of the Chilia arm, on the Ukrainian border; reached by the Navrom ship towards Periprava or by road via the Tulcea ferry, and the starting point of a water route to Lake Matița. - [Gura Portiței](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/gura-portitei) — Seaside · Jurilovca, TL · Free · 5 – 5½ hours A strip of sand between the Black Sea and Lake Golovița, in the Danube Delta, reached only by boat from Jurilovca: a wide beach with reed sunshades and a single resort. - [Jurilovca](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/jurilovca) — Villages and traditions · Jurilovca, TL · Free · 1½ – 2 hours A Lipovan fishing village on the shore of Lake Golovița, in the south of the Danube Delta: a tourist harbour, white and blue reed-thatched houses and the boat departure for Gura Portiței. - [Letea Forest](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/letea-forest) — National parks and reserves · Letea, TL · 2½ – 3 hours · UNESCO World Heritage One of Romania's first nature reserves, protected since 1938: ancient oaks draped in lianas, sand dunes and herds of feral horses on the Letea sand bank in the north of the Danube Delta. - [Mahmudia](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mahmudia) — Villages and traditions · Mahmudia, TL · Free · ½ – 1 hours A Dobruja village on the bank of the Sfântu Gheorghe arm, ~31 km from Tulcea, with a Navrom landing stage, the ancient remains of Salsovia and the Beștepe hills behind it. - [Mila 23](https://peplaiuri.ro/en/mila-23) — Villages and traditions · Mila 23, TL · 5 lei/day · 2½ – 3 hours A Lipovan fishing village in the heart of the Danube Delta, on the Old Danube, reachable only by boat; the birthplace of Ivan Patzaichin, with a museum tower dedicated to the champion. --- Full page: https://peplaiuri.ro/en/deltas Other languages: Română: https://peplaiuri.ro/delte.md · Deutsch: https://peplaiuri.ro/de/deltas.md · Italiano: https://peplaiuri.ro/it/delta.md · Français: https://peplaiuri.ro/fr/deltas.md · Español: https://peplaiuri.ro/es/deltas.md · Magyar: https://peplaiuri.ro/hu/deltak.md Source: Pe Plaiuri (https://peplaiuri.ro/en) — Guide to tourist attractions in Romania