Turism Delta

CARPATHIAN CRIME TOUR

Downland programs

Programs manager by Adriana Mertea

Mail:   adriana_mertea@yahoo.com                            
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                       How are criminals made?
•    Where do they come from?
•    What outward signs are there?

Key Information:
Tour Duration:12 day(s)
Group size: 12-36 people
Destination(s): Romania
Specialty Categories:Criminology,Psychology and detective stories.
Season:Januarie-December
Airfare Included:No
Tour Customizable:Yes
Minimum per Person Price: 1030 Euro
Maximum per Person Price:1330 Euro

Serial killers come from everywhere and there are, very often, no signs of the activities that an individual undertakes. Killers are often described as ‘normal’, ‘very chatty’ and ‘a good neighbour’. Perpetrator profiling can be used to indicate how the criminal thinks, their motivation and modus operandi. It is a fact that criminals exist and that many continue to escape justice. We all have a genetic inheritance or genetic potential, but in order for that potential to be released there have to be some environmental triggers. It is important to separate the two main types large-number killers – serial and mass.
•    Mass murderers kill a large number of people in one incident. Examples would include Ion Antonescu (a Romanian Army career officer who made his name during the 1907 peasants' revolt and the World War I Romanian Campaign, the antisemitic Antonescu sympathized with the far right and fascist National Christian and Iron Guard groups for much of the interwar period, an atypical figure among Holocaust perpetrators, Antonescu enforced policies independently responsible for the deaths of as many as 400,000 people, most of them Bessarabian, Ukrainian and Romanian Jews, as well as Romani Romanians) and Nicolae Ceaușescu (a Romanian politician who was the Secretary General of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, President of the Council of State from 1967, and President of Romania from 1974 to 1989. It is reported that Ceausescu ordered his troops to fire on the crowd in 1989). It is typical of this type of killer that they make no attempt to hide themselves and will often die by the end of the incident, either by their own hand or by the police.
•    Serial killers are of a different breed and have existed for hundreds of years. Ion Rîmaru is the Romanian paradigm. Rîmaru admitted to 23 very serious crimes.
•    It is estimate that there are probably up to four serial killers active at any one time and that between 1982 and 1991, 196 persons were killed by serial killers.
Tour Summary
  Bucharest (Ion Râmaru is, by far, the sadist serial killer from Romania. He was convicted for: 3 murders, 6 murder's attempts, 5 rapes, 1 rape attempt, 1 robbery and 5 thefts - all between 1970 - 1971, and only in Bucharest. His case was studied by psychologists and journalists who named Râmaru: Bucharest Vampire; The Iron Guard is the name most commonly given to a far-right movement and political party in Romania in the period from 1927 into the early part of World War II. The Iron Guard was ultra-nationalist, antisemitic and fascist in character; Vera Renczi was a Romanian serial killer who poisoned thirty-five individuals including her husbands, lovers and one son with arsenic during the 1920s and 1930s) ;
• Târgoviște (There the Ceauşescus were held by the police. They were eventually turned over to the army. On Christmas Day, December 25, the two were sentenced to death by a military court on charges ranging from illegal gathering of wealth to genocide, and were executed) ;
• Vlad Dracula's Real Castle /Castle Poenari (Impalement was Vlad’s preferred method of torture and execution. Impalement  was one of the most gruesome ways of dying imaginable, as it was typically slow and painful. Victims included warring enemies, unfaithful noblemen, dishonest merchants and unchaste women);
•  Brașov/Bran Castle (Vlad III Ţepeş has been characterized as a tyrant who took sadistic pleasure in torturing and killing his enemies. The number of his victims ranges from 40,000 to 100,000. According to the German stories the number of victims he had killed was at least 80,000. In addition to the 80,000 victims mentioned he also had whole villages and fortresses destroyed and burned to the ground. The atrocities committed by Vlad in the German stories include impaling, torturing, burning, skinning, roasting, and boiling people, feeding people the flesh of their friends or relatives, cutting off limbs, and drowning. All of these punishments mainly came from things people did that displeased Vlad the most; stealing, lying, and adulterous relations. Other methods of punishment included skinning the feet of thieves, then putting salt on them and letting goats lick off the salt. This was a way that Vlad kept his people in order and taught them that stealing would not be tolerated in his lands. No exceptions were made: he punished anyone who broke his laws, whether men or women, no matter the age, religion or social class).
•    Sighișoara (Vlad was born in Sighişoara, Transylvania in the winter of 1431);
•    Sibiu (Nicu Ceaușescu - toward the end of the 1980s, he was made a member of the Executive Committee of the Romanian Communist Party and in 1987 its leader for Sibiu County, being prepared by his parents to be Nicolae Ceauşescu's successor. Nicu had a reputation of being a

heavy drinker and a playboy since high school. He scandalized Bucharest with his rapes and car accidents);
•    Hunedoara (Vlad Dracula fight the Turkish army and has a succesful campain along Danube. On a massive reply the turks made a big invasion in Romania and Vlad is forced to flew in the Transylvanian Alps mountains. When Vlad refugiated and ask for help to fight back the Turks, he was imprisoned in the Hunedoara Castle (1462) by the king Matthias Corvin);
•    Timișoara (In December 1989 a popular uprising began in Timişoara against the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. The Hungarian Calvinist pastor László Tőkés was ordered to be deported by the Securitate, or secret police, and as a reaction his house was surrounded by members of his church. People supporting him, including people of Romanian origin, gathered at the central square. The Communist administration ordered the army to fire at the congregation. However, a number of army officers refused to open fire and sided with the people. That was the beginning of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which ended the Communist regime a week later. Timişoara was declared the first Free Town on 20 December 1989, suffering 1,104 reported deaths and 3,352 wounded during the revolution);
•    Oradea (Báthory family ruled Transylvania. Countess Elizabeth Báthory was a countess from the renowned Báthory family. She is possibly the most prolific female serial killer in history and is remembered as the "Blood Countess") ;
•    Cluj Napoca (Romulus Vereş was a notorious serial killer, better known as "the man with the hammer". During the 1970s, he was charged with five murders and several attempted murders, but never imprisoned on grounds of insanity);
•    Bánffy Castle /Bonţida Bánffy Castle sometimes also called “The Versailles of Transylvania” (is an architectonic Baroque monument situated in Bonţida, a village in the vicinity of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was owned by the Bánffy family. Count Albert Wass de Szentegyed et Czege was a Hungarian noble, forest engineer, novelist, poet, member of the Wass de Czege family. After WWII, he was condemned as a war criminal by the Romanian People's Tribunals);
•    Gherla prison (a Habsburg fortress that in 1785 was transformed into a prison which, during the Communist regime, was used for political detainees. Today it is one of the high security prisons in Romania);

•    Târgu Mureș (The Clinic of Psychiatry – using psychiatry during communism as a political weapon is part of the tragic history of the Romanian in psychiatry. Based on the study did have sought to see these mechanisms of a totalitarian state, became a real criminal organization, a field in which only a fascist state realized this ‘successful performance);
•    Lacu Roșu (Red Lake or Killer Lake is a barrier lake in the Eastern Carpathians chain in Harghita County. The name comes from the reddish alluvia deposited in the lake by the Red Creek);
•    Iași (Romanian Cybercriminal Gang - an important nucleus was formed in Iasi, because it is one of the largest cities in the country and, most importantly, a big university center. This allowed the leaders of the gang to recruit students from the specialized universities here, who were willing to earn some extra cash);
•    Brăila (One of the most noted characters among the lower social environments of early 20th century Romania was Terente, or King of the Swamplands, a renowned bandit from Braila County. Despite his crimes, he gained sympathy from people, who saw him as a lone adventurer, a Robin Hood of sorts);
•    Buzău (The New Year Murderer was an illiterate peasant who attacked homeless children in the New Year’s night. He murdered four children till he was captured and executed in 1988);

•    Mystery in all its forms will undoubtedly continue to capture the public's imagination, regardless of the medium, well into the future. Every single night of the tour you’ll also play the detective and your singular, distinctive style and your flair for deducting clues will help us to solve the daily crimes.

DAY 1 - Bucharest – 83 km - Târgoviște - Vlad Dracula's Real Castle /Castle Poenari – 130 km - Brașov
•    Arrival in Bucharest.
•    Enjoy Targoviste town located 80 km far from the capital, Bucharest. First attested in 1396, it became the capital of the Wallachian voivodship, during the reign of Mircea cel Bătrân, when the Royal Court (“Curtea Domnească”) was built. Vlad III Dracula (called Vlad the Impaler) later added the Chindia Tower, now a symbol of the city. After Constantin Brâncoveanu moved the capital to Bucharest (80 km far from) Târgovişte lost its importance, decaying economically as its population decreased. Târgovişte was the site of the trial and execution of Nicolae Ceauşescu (the communist leader) and his wife Elena in December 1989.
•    Visit to the Castle of Poienari which seems to have started during Vlad's father, Vlad Dracul, but Dracula is the one that fortifies it.
•    Accommodation on a 3*/4* hotel in Brașov.
DAY 2 – Brașov – 118 km - Sighișoara – 92 km – Sibiu
•    Visit to the Bran Castle. The fortress is situated on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia, on DN73. Commonly known as "Dracula's Castle" (although it is one among several locations linked to the Dracula legend, including Poienari Castle and Hunyad Castle), it is marketed as the home of the titular character in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
•    Sighisoara, which Vlad Tepes (Vlad Dracul) called home, is one of the seven fortified Saxon cities in Transylvania.
•    Accommodation on a 3*/4* hotel in Sibiu.
DAY 3 – Sibiu – 128 km - Hunedoara – 186 km - Timișoara
•    Hunyad Castle (Because of its appearance - said to be one of Transylvania's greatest architectural gems) has been rented out for use in various in movies, television shows, and commercials over the years. In 2007, the British television show Most Haunted Live! investigated the alleged ghosts that haunt the castle.

Accommodation on a 3*/4* hotel in Timișoara.
DAY 4 – Timișoara – 170 km - Oradea – 148 km - Cluj-Napoca
•    In December 1989, Timişoara witnessed a series of mass street protests by both Romanians and Hungarians, in what was to become the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
•    Accommodation on a 3*/4* hotel in Cluj Napoca.
DAY 5 – Cluj Napoca – 106 km – Târgu Mureș - 155 km – Lacu Roșu
•    The Red Lake was formed not too long ago, someday in July 1837, when after many storms in a row, a huge piece of stone separated from The Killer Mountain and blocked the Licas Creek, Oii Creek and the Red Creek. The only “witnesses” of this natural calamity are the spruce fir stumps that still remained in the water. Because of the fact that the Suhardu Mic Mountain had a purple reflection in the lake and of the reddish limy alluvia brought by the Red Creek, the shepherds decided to call it The Red Lake (Lacu Rosu).
•    Overnight in a boarding house in the proximity of Lacu Roșu.
DAY 6 - Lacu Roșu – 172 km - Iași
•    Downstream the Red Lake, you can see the Bicaz Canyon, which is dug by the Bicaz river waters and serves as a passageway between Transylvania and Moldavia. The Bicaz Canyon is part of the National Park “Bicaz Canyon”, which includes actually the following protected areas: The Red Lake, The Bicaz Canyon and The Hasmasul Mare Mountain.
•    Accommodation on a 3*/4* hotel in Iași.
DAY 7 – Iași – 365 km – Tulcea - Danube Delta - Caraorman Chanel (white colour on the map)
•    Accommodation on a 4* floating hotel. Opening of the Cruise. Welcome cocktail. Lunch. We head deep into the Danube Delta - amazing sceneries (a labyrinth of water and land, made up of countless lakes, channels, islands at the end of a 2,860 km long river);
Caraorman

•    The desertic scenery of the dunes has attracted many tourists. The sand hills of Caraorman are across the flowing direction of the Danube, and along with the one in Letea, they represent portions of the original sand belt that once blocked the gulf of Tulcea, transforming it into a lagoon, which clogged and ulteriorly created the Danube Delta;
•    Crisan-Caraorman channel is wider and deeper than usual channels. It has special characteristics which attract many species of fish: carp, sheatfish, zander, pike, rapacious carp, crucian, perch, bream and red surmullet.
DAY 8 –travel farther on Litcov channel (blue colour on the map) – Letea forest
•    Visit the natural channels of the Delta by boat, bird and animal watching sessions, picnic lunch;
•    Visit the Letea village and forest;
•    In 1940 both Caraorman forest and Letea forest have been declared nature's monuments, being considered strictly protected areas.
DAY 9 - Sulina (orange colour on the map)
•    Visit to the Sulina town, the terminus point for cruise liners sailing across the Delta, was mentioned for the first time more than 1,000 years ago under the name of Selina in a work written by Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenetes. This port town once bustled with traders from Europe and the Middle East, adventurers and sea pirates.
DAY 10 - Travel farther on Olguța and Șontea channels - Fortuna Lake – Nebunu Lake - return to Tulcea (red colour on the map)
•    Travelling gently downstream will allow us to enjoy the sounds of wilderness. On our way we’ll explore one of the most remote places in the Danube Delta in which we’ll find: gallery forests of white willow and white poplar, small lakes with reed islands, bird colonies etc.
DAY 11 - Tulcea – 279 km – Bucharest
City tour Bucharest - Criminal offences in the business field are more frequent in a state facing an economic and social crisis, as the case has been so many times for Romania since 1989. We have often witnessed a void of power, a void of justice and lawfulness. There are countless criminal offences in the business field: from racket, fraud, disclosure of an economic secret, circulating counterfeit objects, unfair competition, tax evasion, performing prohibited activities to ill management and so on.... Most worrying are the offences in the field of informatics. This new type of criminal offence does not only threaten bank accounts, business dealings between companies and individuals, but it also represents a real danger for large worldwide concerns and even for state security.We will try to explain *white collar* criminality from the viewpoint of the theories regarding criminal behavior. There are countless illustrating examples.
•    Accommodation on a 3*/4* hotel in Bucharest.
DAY 12 – Bucharest - Henri Coanda Airport
•    Breakfast and depart for the airport.

Price includes

 
•    accommodation 4 nights on floating hotels 4* and 7 nights in boarding houses or hotels 3*/4* (Brașov, Sibiu, Timișoara, Cluj Napoca, Lacul Roșu, Iași and Bucharest);
•    full board;
•    excursions and activities as per itinerary (including boats, guide services, fishing equipment and local taxes), related entertainment activities meticulously planned by our experts;
•    transportation (all transfers from Bucharest to the Danube Delta and back);
•    entry fees to the mentioned tourist attractions ;
•    Not included: plane ticket, airport fees, photo & video tax and other not mentioned. The tariff also excludes any alcoholic beverages, telephone, minibar, massage, laundry etc.

Terms & Conditions
•    Departures at your request. This trip can be tailormade throughout the year and can be adapted to suit your interests, budget and requirements as necessary. Best time to go is june – september.
•    The prices are for groups consisting of 18 persons. For more or less than 18 persons taking part in the tour, the price will be recalculated and the tour can be arranged after. Our tour is personalized, flexible, depending on our clients' wish, the programs can be extended with extra nights, the itinerary can be changed according to your proposal.The programs are operating starting with minimum 12 persons.
•    50 % of the total amount has to be paid in advance by money transfer to confirm your reservation 4 weeks before departure. The rest of the total amount is to be paid here, at the moment of the arriving in Romania.
•    In the case of cancellation of the tour, not later then 2 weeks before departure, the paid tour fee will be refunded, with the exception of 50 EUR/pax for administrative costs .


Contact:
adriana_mertea@yahoo.com/ http://www.indanubedelta.ro/