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Balkan Discovery Cruise

  • Departure DateMon 15th Sep 2025
  • Avalon Waterways Avalon Expression
  • 8 Night Cruise From Budapest
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Itinerary

  • Budapest
  • Vukovar
  • Novi Sad
  • Belgrade
  • Golubac
  • Vidin
  • Rousse, Bulgaria
  • Veliko Tarnovo
  • Oltenita

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Day 1 - Budapest

Arrive: Mon 15 September 2025 / Depart: Mon 15 September 2025

Budapest, Hungary’s capital, is bisected by the River Danube. Its 19th-century Chain Bridge connects the hilly Buda district with flat Pest. A funicular runs up Castle Hill to Buda’s Old Town, where the Budapest History Museum traces city life from Roman times onward.

Day 2 - Vukovar

Arrive: Tue 16 September 2025 / Depart: Tue 16 September 2025

Vukovar is a city in eastern Croatia. It contains Croatia's largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. Vukovar is the seat of Vukovar-Syrmia County. The city's registered population was 26,468 in the 2011 census, with a total of 27,683 in the municipality.

Day 3 - Novi Sad

Arrive: Wed 17 September 2025 / Depart: Wed 17 September 2025

Novi Sad is a city in northern Serbia on the banks of the Danube River. Standing atop a riverside bluff, much of Petrovaradin Fortress dates to the 17th and 18th centuries, with an iconic clock tower and a network of tunnels. Across the river is the old quarter, Stari Grad, site of the Gothic Revival Name of Mary Church and the neo-Renaissance City Hall.

Day 4 - Belgrade

Arrive: Thu 18 September 2025 / Depart: Thu 18 September 2025

Belgrade is the capital of the southeast European country of Serbia. Its most significant landmark is the Beogradska Tvr?ava, an imposing fortress at the confluence of the Danube and the Sava rivers. The fort is a testament to the city’s strategic importance to the Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Serbian and Austrian empires, and it's now the site of several museums as well as Kalemegdan, a vast park.

Day 5 - Golubac

Arrive: Fri 19 September 2025 / Depart: Fri 19 September 2025

Golubac is a village and municipality located in the Brani?evo District of the eastern Serbia. Situated on the right side of the Danube river, it is bordered by Romania to the east, Veliko Gradište to the west and Ku?evo to the south.

Day 5 - Donji Milanovac

Day 6 - Vidin

Arrive: Sat 20 September 2025 / Depart: Sat 20 September 2025

Vidin is a port town on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Romania and Serbia, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as of the Metropolitan of Vidin.

Day 7 - Rousse, Bulgaria

Arrive: Sun 21 September 2025 / Depart: Sun 21 September 2025

Ruse, is the fifth largest city in Bulgaria. Ruse is in the northeastern part of the country, on the right bank of the Danube, opposite the Romanian city of Giurgiu, approximately 75 km south of Bucharest, Romania's capital, 200 km from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and 300 km from the capital Sofia.

Day 7 - Veliko Tarnovo

Arrive: Sun 21 September 2025 / Depart: Sun 21 September 2025

Veliko Tarnovo is a town in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province.

Day 8 - Oltenita

Arrive: Mon 22 September 2025 / Depart: Mon 22 September 2025

Olteni?a is a city in Muntenia, Romania in the C?l?ra?i County on the left bank of the river Arge? where its waters flows into the Danube. Olteni?a stands across the Danube from the Bulgarian city of Tutrakan.

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