Things to do
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Danube Delta
The second largest river delta in Europe and the best preserved, about 580,000 hectares of channels, reed islands and lakes on the UNESCO list since 1991, holding roughly three hundred bird species including the pelican colonies the place is known for. It is reached only by boat and the water is the road.
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Delta Nature Resort
A villa resort on a hill over the Somova lakes west of the port, with its own boats into the delta, and the only address on this edge of the reserve built to that standard. It is twenty minutes from Tulcea by road and the boats leave from a jetty below.
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Enisala Fortress
A fourteenth century Genoese and later Ottoman fortress on a limestone crag above the Razim lagoon, thirty five kilometres south, watching a shoreline that has since silted up and left it inland. It is walked freely and the view over the lagoons is the reason.
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Letea Forest
A strict reserve on a sand dune ridge in the northern delta, holding oaks hung with liana and one of Europe's last free-roaming horse populations. Access is with a licensed guide and permit only, and trips run from Crișan or Sulina and take most of a day.
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Tulcea Art Museum
A collection of Romanian painting in a nineteenth century building on the waterfront, strong on the interwar artists who worked in the delta and in the Dobrogea. It is the town's one indoor hour, a few minutes from the landing stage, and it fits before a boat leaves.
