Location: Ogra

GPS coordinates: Latitude : 46° N 27.676 Longitude : 024° E 18.819

Altitude : 380 m

Direction : S – SE

Level difference - 100 m

Accessibility: Auto access to the base of the slope which is located at a distance of approximately 1 km from the village of Ogra (situated on the Tirgu-Mures – Cluj-Napoca road at approximately 20 km from Tirgu-Mures)

Comments: The flying place is a slope of 100 m visible from the road on the other side of the Mures River. The take off space is accessible also to beginners and the landing space is also quite large.

Location: Ernei

GPS coordinates: Latitude : 46°N 36.250 Longitude: 024°E 39.373

Altitude : 480 m

Direction : V-NV

Level difference : 120 m

The record distance flown from Ernei is 75 km

Accessibility: Auto access to the base of the slope. With a 4×4 you can climb to the take off place. The slope is located at approx. 500 m from the village of Ernei (on the Tirgu-Mures – Reghin road, 12 km from Tirgu-Mures)

Comments: It is one of the best flying spaces frequented by the gliders of Tirgu-Mures

Location: Deda Bistra

GPS coordinates: Latitude : 46°N 58.901 Longitude: 024°E 53.748

Altitude : 780 m

Direction : S-SV

Level difference : 250 m

The record distance flown from Deda-Bistra is 30 km

Accessibility : Auto access to the base of the slope, approx. 2 km from Deda-Bistra village, located on the Tirgu-Mures-Toplita road, 60 km from Tirgu-Mures. The take off place can be accessed only by foot.

Comments : It is one of the most picturesque flying places in the county, being located in the vicinity of the Calimani Mountains. During the summer season, due to the mountain breeze, there is a front wind all the time.

Contact : Szutor Zsigmond (paragliding trainer) Tel: +40-744246985

“U.I.A.A. Ice World Cup” – Busteni, Romania – 8-11 February 2007” Final of the Escalade World Cup and the World Championship of speed on ice

Brief description and location: The event is a continuation of the World Cup leg organized on 9-11 February 2006 in Busteni, for the first time in Romania. The international federation of escalade and climbing by the President of the Commission for Ice Escalade, Mr. Carlos Feixeira, has pointed the tourist station Busteni for the two events, as a result of the success that the organization of the 2006 competition enjoyed. The event that will take place at the base of the Kalinderu track in the tourist station Busteni on a modern escalade structure, shall bring a contribution to the promotion of the high athletic values to the development of some athletic winter activities in a fully new branch in Romania. U.I.A.A. is working with the Olympic and United Nations’ Committee in order to develop and to promote this athletic discipline. At the reunion in which Busteni was being awarded the organization of the finals with the participation of 98 members associates out of 68 countries representing over 2.8 million individual members and 10 million members worldwide.

Information regarding the approaches: The access is ensured on D.N. (Highway) 1 and the railway Bucharest-Brasov, Henry Coanda International Airport, providing a very good connection to all the tourists all over Europe and not only.

Contact: City Hall Busteni – 91 Libertatii Blvd., Prahova County, zip code 105500 Tel/fax ++40/0244/322005, E-mail: primabus@yahoo.com, www.busteni.org

Harghita County is a destination of picturesque landscape with a very various relief and climate. Due to these facilities we cannot classify Harghita County as a centre of adventure tourism, but a centre of adventure sport tourism. Dusty single trails and rocky forestry roads cross the Harghita's mountains in all directions, creating a mountain bikers paradise, with superb landscapes.

Harghita Mountains is one of the most spectacular mountain range in the region. A large network of forestry roads and single trails, the superb landscapes, are making these mountains the perfect place for an unforgettable mountain bike holiday.

Because County Harghita has the mountains as prevailing relief it became compulsory the making of a large network of mountain paths, which gradually turned into charming and picturesque tourist roads. County Harghita owns around 948 km of these kinds of paths that cross the mountains from the height of 300 m till the height of 2000m.

The mountains that contain these paths are: the Giurgeului Mountains - 6 ruts with a total length of 75 km, Haghimas Mountain - 14 ruts with a total length of 107 km, Harghita Mountains - 10 ruts - 149 km, the Gurghiu Mountains - 3 ruts - 51 km, The Calimani Mountains - 26 ruts - 566 km

The geographical position and the county's climate facilitate the winter sports that hold a prevailing place; special results have been registered in the category of hall sports.

The sport activity of the county has a rich material bases made up of 248 sportive centers among which the most important are: two covered artificial skate yards, 55 soccer stadiums, 8 confirmed halls for sport games, one polyvalent hall, 36 gymnasium sport halls, 9 opened air basketball fields, 34 outdoor handball fields, 22 tennis fields, 12 sport fields in schools, 5 natural skate yards, 5 alpine sky passages with drive Systems, one sledge passage, one natural speed skating passage, one horse base, 8 bowling places, 4 outdoor swimming pools, 12 sportive hotels.

The Harghita County’s cave system provides a possibility for practicing the potholing. Hang gliding is a very popular (extreme) sport in our region. Volunteers can try hang gliding in the Sumuleu Mountains and the Harghita Mountains.

In winter time snowboarding and skiing is very exciting. The quantity of snow is very high in our region especially in the Harghita Mountain; provide the possibility for practice this sport from December to March.

For the andrenalis fans, we suggest you:

Mountains biking (mountain cycling tourism by means of mountain bikes), Horse Riding (a more difficult excursions), Ski touring (in winter, a different kind of long distance skiing), Snowboarding (down the valley, on snow, on a single board), Winsurfing, Kayaking, Rafting (sports on water, slightly extreme). To the satisfaction of those interested we may give the following explanations – the „on land” part takes place on the slopes of the Borgos, Rodna and Calimani Mountains, with an average and high degree of difficulty. The part taking place „on water” is far more interesting. You can imagine how it would be for you to go down by air boat or a kayak on the rivers Rebra, Cormaia, Aniesul Mic within the period March 15 – May 15 (everything according to the rainfalls) at the risk and excitement of 1 to 4 (a descending angle of more than 30 degrees). But don’t worry because „Caliman Club Holidays” organises, during the summer time, initiation courses in Windsurfing, Kayaking and even Seakayaking on the still waters of the lake Colibita. From the common trip to .. the adventure of the hights, we hope that we don’t let you down.

In a world, the one likes the mountain, the nature, has a lot to see during a whole journey, without being afraid to getting bored. Moreover, we hope the you will go homewith beautiful memories, some of them, unique.

The mountain area from the north part of the Targu-Jiu City – the Gorj County residence - offer all that someone that love mountain could wish for over 30 pedestrian touristic routs, 3 area homologated for escalade and alpinism practice, caves, pits (the most great concentration of pits in the country, the most deep been at minus 150 meters), canyons, waterfalls, cycloturism and mountain bike, rafting and body-rafting circuits, off-road, enduro, ATV, polygons for flying with paraglider and hangglider, scuba and speleodiving, ski lops, ice waterfalls, ski touring circuits etc.

All this activities are the base of the fulfillment of the Romania-Gorj-Adventure Program, certain the most complete and complex program of mountain adventure from Romania, program declared at the National Tourism Exposition of Romania “the most attractive touristic program lunched by the tour operators in 2004 year”.

The over 25 summer and winter touristic-sportive activities of the program, all prepared exceptionably, with difficulty levels starting from minim, initiation/beginner, adventure until extreme, make this program to be one of the most competitive program on European level, fact demonstrated by the bigger number of foreign tourist.

Beside those, the exceptional preparation of the trainers (all are professional mountain savings with experience in the sportive mountain activities, also with certifications of sportive instructors, aquatics savings, ski monitors, free time instructors etc), the material base used in the program and ensured by the organizer, the equipment of the best quality, the prestigious brands, ensure the guaranties of activities success, even if those are developed one day long or more, in a holiday, hostelling, team building or team adventure.

A special category of activities are those of team building and team adventure, the organizers hit up until the program launch to revolutionized the outdoor training market offering attractive programs, full of adrenaline where the participants successfully override and discover new limits.

Canyoning is a relative new sport, very loved in Europe and United State and practiced, also, more and more in our country.

Canyoning suppose the moving in the mountain river water, waterfalls move down and swim cross of the water accumulations been a sportive activity that can be done at any difficulty or preparation level.

The canyoning practice can be done very well with gratification character, without having all the necessary knowledge, but, necessarily together with prepared trainers in this domain and on easy routs with corresponding lay out.

The rafting is also a very attractive and popular sport all over the world and, in a few years, in our country, too. The most attractive for rafting is Jiu River.

The navigable circuits of Jiu Pass have a length of 40 kilometers and level difference of 300 meters.

The landscape is spectacular, the Jiu Pass been declared in 2005 year, National Park, having in this moment a special preservation and protection program of natural patrimony.

The descending is organized in boats of 6+1 persons, canoe, kayak, and could do two series by day.

The nocturne rafting – a European premier – is done in the light of the headpiece with frontal lamps and warning elements of the equipments, been for the first time organized and introduced in a touristic program by the Romania Gorj Adventure team. The strong sensations, the necessity of quick reaction and rowing coordination at the directional commends of the boat, body rafting passage (floating on torrent caused by the equipment floatability) make this activity to be exceptional for adrenalin quenching and strengthening the team spirit.

The Gorj County has the higher speleological potential of the country, with over 2.000 caves, two arranged and introduced in the touristic circuit and some, without arrangement and having a preservation stage of 100% been introduced in a restricted and controlled touristic circuit. Especially attractive are the pits at deeps between minus 10 and minus 150 meters with hundred meters of horizontal galleries. The subterranean exploration sensation with your own lamp, the crawling, and the transit of small sectors, all for discover a wonderful subterranean world open for the one that wants to permanently self overreach.

The alpinism and escalade can be practiced on many arranged routs in the polygons of Cheile Oltetului, Cheile Galbenului and Cheile Sohodolului, the alpinism routs having until 10-12 string elongation and maximum 5B difficulty degree, and escalade routs until 9 degree difficulty.

The Gorj County, annual, is the host of The National Escalade Championship final and of The Romanian Cup of Escalade starting with 2003 year, envisaging already the organization of some international contest.

Mountainbike, off-road, ATV and enduro are activities that have found here exceptional development condition, the rich forest road network and mountain footways, some of them been thousand year old or abandoned, ensure not only the moving difficulty technical elements but also the discovering and viewing of an exceptional natural frame. With a network of 700 km of accessible circuits for 4x4 and enduro, The Gorj County hosting annual a large number of sportive actions of this type with participants from all over the country or foreign.

The diving can be done in very good conditions in the lakes from the sub mountain area, in the accumulation lakes or in the glacial lakes from Parang massif at over 2000 meters. It is in testing an industrial sub-aquatic tourism program where the deep exploration offer the discovering of the equipments from an ex carbon pit. The Izverna Cave from the locality with the same name, situated in the Mehedinti mountain offer the best conditions for speleological diving’s, seal box until over minus 35 meters, the subterranean lakes and the special clarity of the water make this cave to be one of the most demanded from Europe.

For flying with paraglider and hangglider there are many launch places, the good one been Papusa nab closed to Ranca Resort, nab with auto access and where over 2000 meters the air streams ensure the exceptional fly condition. In the past years here were organized some sportive contest among which the final of National Championship. The attested trainers could initiate you in the flying with paraglider and hangglider or can offer you “highness” sensations with double paraglider.

Beside those a series of attractive activities like fly-back, tiroliana, body-rafting, GPS orientation, fox radio-hunting, photo-hunting, cyclo-tourism, ice climbing, random ski, off-piste, horses tour that make the feast of the participants attracted more and more by the program and by the landscape of the mountain and sub-mountain area of Gorj County.

The Romanian Gorj Adventure Program is in this moment not only an example of efficient identification and valuating of the touristic area potential but also a good example for organization of a touristic program competitive on internal market as well as on external one.

This has adapted permanently at the request of the touristic market developing the segments for “adventure” and “pleasure” accessible to the people without special sportive aptitude or physical training, without age limits, a great success having the programs of team building, team adventure and events organized with scenarios starting from the program activities.

The resulted programs from the combination of active and educational/ecological activities has a great success, a lots of institutions for education from country and outside request annual the organization of activities for children and youths, The American School from Bucharest, International Student Volunteers – USA, MFR Institute St. Florent de Bois – France, are already traditional clients, with annual actions, the program been very well quoted in the international tourist network for youths, students and ISYC, IYTC, ITIC teaching staff.

The accommodation in the promotion package start from the classical structure, hotels, motels, chalets, hunting houses, rural or agro-touristic houses, tents, until the most unconventional one as: grottoes, caves, mansions, hay barracks or under the open sky.

The meal is based on the local gastronomical specialties in restaurants, homesteads or fete champetre, with specifical foods, one of them become real brands in the touristic industry as:” Parang cheese and ewe-cheese”, “Polovragi jintita”, “Tismana trout”, wetted with “Novaci palinca” or “Runcu with of stone” wine on the incidental music strictly authentic ensured by the gorjean fiddlers.

The meal is served in local traditional ceramic dishes, bottles for brandy, wine and mud plats that participants receive at the end of the action as souvenir.