Winter is the season when we come together with our friends to spend some very special moments. For those of you that love winter and also outdoor hikes we recommend you to come to Neamţ County for a hike on Ceahlău Massif where nature welcomes you with fantastic white sceneries. You can spend the winter holidays in a fairytale atmosphere created by snow, tall pine trees, the ice from the eaves of the houses and the simple beauty of snowmen.
So, if you are a nature lover you can hike on …

 
 
Summer camps with interactive activities at Durău Mountain Resort
Surely, an unforgettable holiday!
 
 
Located in a sunny clearing in the North-West of Ceahlău Mountain at 820 m altitude, Durău Resort is famous for the summer camps organized here, every year. The most interesting fact is that camps not only offer mountain hikes and sightseeing tours, but also a large number of interactive activities including sports, theatre, dance, visual arts, gardening, architecture, photography, film, experimental labs for kids, modeling, workshops for the development of handicraft skills, equitation, team games, treasure hunting, karaoke, exercises …

 
Ceahlău Massif – “a giant who’s forehead is caressed by the sun”
A view of ”the Enchanted mountain”
 
 
“The giant immersed in the rays of the sun” as described in the famous poem “Summer” by George Coşbuc, Ceahlău Mountain is a very special place which many Romanian and foreign writers have spoken about. This “gemstone” of Moldavia, as Dimitrie Cantemir called it in his famous Latin writing “Descriptio Moldaviae” from  1716, Ceahlău Mountain is situated in the middle of the Oriental Carpathians, in the western part of Neamţ County, at the crossroad …

 
Traveling the great mountain Ceahlău
From Izvorul Muntelui Chalet to the top of the massif
 
 
 
Ceahlău National Park offers a lot of opportunities for adventure hike, but also for discovering breathtaking landscapes. To reach the plateau of Ceahlău massif, there are seven trails available for tourists, three of which start from Izvorul Muntelui area.
One of the most frequented and also the shortest trail (around 3  1/2 hours) crosses the eastern side of the mountain. The trail starts near Izvorul Muntelui Chalet (797 m) crosses Lutu Roşu Hollow (1,020 m) and ends at …

The Annunciation Day (Romanian ”Buna Vestire” or “Blagoveştenia”) is the feast that gathers, every year, a large number of tourists and pilgrims at the Durău Monastery, located at the foot of Ceahlău Mountain. On this day (the 25th of March) the Monastery celebrates its Dedication Day. After taking part in the religious service, people will enjoy fish dishes, being allowed to eat fish on this holy day.
In the popular culture, calendar the Annunciation Day is also known as the Cuckoo Day (Romanian “Ziua cucului”). The elders say that in the …

When we are in Durău resort (800m), from somewhere on the slope, we can admire the beautiful view of the Massif Ceahlau dominated by the topToaca (1900 m), the Panaghia and Piatra Ciobanului. Thinking to reach Cabana Dochia through Fantanele, we follow the red tape and climb through the forest of spruce and beech. We cross the county road Durau – Mountain Spring, once a beauty road, and continue our ascent through the forest to the heights of the mountain, so that after about an hour, we arrive at a halting …