Cluj Top Attractions: Turda Salt Mine, Alba Iulia Citadel & Rimetea Village
What you need to know about this Turda Salt Mine tour:
- A wonderful day trip starting from Cluj-Napoca in the morning. Duration: 9 hours
- Included: pick-up and transport (approx. 250 km), guidance, ticket to Turda Salt Mine and water for the road. Not included: lunch
- Turda Salt Mine is a fascinating place that words cannot describe. Enjoy the healthy salty air and relax!
- Find out why the impressive Alba Iulia Citadel is one of Romania's most important historical landmarks
- We visit the village of Rimetea said to be the most beautiful village in these parts belonging to the Hungarian minority
- Unless you specifically mention that you want a private tour, there might be other travelers joining you on this trip
Additional information
Itinerary adjustable based on your interests.
Drop off in Sibiu is possible for an extra cost.
Moments to expect during the Alba Iulia Citadel tour from Cluj:
Explore the wonderful and unique Turda Salt Mine
We start our day trip from Cluj-Napoca and head to Salina Turda to learn about this unique attraction. The salt mine is 2.000 years old and was used for various purposes since then. Access tunnels will lead us into huge caverns and grottos beautifully decorated with lights creating a unique atmosphere! You'll learn about salt exploitation and why salty air is therapeutic for your lungs. You can also enjoy the underground amusement park: play ping pong, shoot some pool, minigolf or rent a boat on the underground lake!
Alba Iulia Citadel - Romania's largest citadel
Coming back to the surface, we drive to Alba Iulia Citadel. We go for a walk through this beautifully restored 2000-year-old Vauban fortress and discover traces of different civilisations. Find out why Alba Carolina Fortress is the spiritual capital of modern Romania and visit sights such as the Roman Principia, a neo-byzantine Orthodox cathedral or Union Hall Finally, admire splendid views of Transylvania!
Attractions included
Village of Rimetea
On our way back to Cluj we leave the main road behind and head into the Romanian countryside. We stop in the village of Rimetea, winner of Europa Nostra Award for its authentic preservation of traditional all-white Hungarian households. You will greet locals and see how they live, go for a walk in the village against a gorgeous backdrop of mountains and enjoy a traditional lunch at a local guesthouse with locally-sourced products!
Cancelation & refund policy
EasySends us or the guide an email 24h before the tour informing us you can't make it and you'll get a full refund of your payment, no questions asked.
Location details
- Starting point: Cluj-Napoca (pick-up)
- Nearest airport: Avram Iancu International Airport Cluj-Napoca
- Nearest train station: Cluj-Napoca
- Landscape: Countryside and urban
Reviews from travellers
Mihai was super helpful, knowledgeable, and really flexible. We are lucky enough to have him as our guide 2 days in a row (2 separate tours), and we felt we got into a really comfortable rhythm with him. The sites we saw were absolutely beautiful, and we really enjoyed getting to hang out with him.
Thank you Florin for all you showed us throughout the day. Your historical knowledge in particular made the Citadel the highlight of the day. It was our first trip to Romania but we will definitely be back to explore more areas of this beautiful country!
One of the best days in Romania. Our guide was friendly, was easy to talk with and took us exactly where we wanted and stopped to allow me to take plenty of pictures as we drove along the countryside.
Florin is a great tour guide. He explained very well the history of Romania. We enjoyed the trip very much.
Had a really great experience on this trip and would highly recommend it. Florin is an excellent guide with deep knowledge in history and politics.
Our tour was perfect and Florin was amazing! We loved it, thank you Romanian Friend!
Excellent tour! Florin has been a friendly and knowledgeable guide, took us to very interesting places. Turda salt mine was majestic and stopping in the countryside of Cluj for a short walk in uncontaminated nature was great as well.
Amazing tour! Totally recommend it! Turda salt mine is a must-see place for everyone who will visit Cluj. Florin was the best guide. Knowledgeable, professional and friendly. He has a way of making a tour with strangers seem like a carpool with friends :)
The tour is great. Turda Salt Mines was a highlight but I also really enjoyed the Alba Iulia citadel and driving through the Carpathian mountains. Florin was a fantastic tour guide - extremely knowledgeable and friendly. Definitely book his tour.
The tour was fantastic and a great way to start my holiday in Romania. Florin was extremely knowledgeable about the area we visited (Alba Iulia, Turda Salina and Rimetea) and was never short of fascinating stories, anecdotes, and history. Was very good company and helped me gain a good understanding of the areas we visited. There was never any awkwardness or pressure to move on, and the pace was absolutely perfect. Would definitely recommend. As an aside, I absolutely loved Romania as a whole and will definitely return. Fantastic places, and people - thanks Romanian Friend!
It was fantastic! Florin was very helpful, friendly, open-minded and funny. He is very intelligent and knows a lot about Romanian History. He also took us to an amazing place to have lunch, with a typical Romanian dish, and it was vegan by chance (pretty important to us because we are vegan, we felt ourselves special, because he really took care about it). We picked us up at our airbnb in Cluj and he dropped us at the airport. And we asked for a little tour in Cluj-Napoca (because we did not see the city) before going to the Turda Salt Mine, and he answered promptly "yes" to us, he woke up 2 hours earlier just to do this for us. And he asked no more money for that. He is really amazing. We learned a lot with him, including seeing a lot of "ABCs", lol. It was a time travel. A great investiment for life. If you have any doubts about booking this tour on Romanian Friend, I hope after reading our review they vanished! Highly recommended! Greetings from Austria/Brazil :)
Florin was very knowledgeable and really made the tour to Turda, Alba Iulia, and Rimetea memorable. It was a great day trip from Cluj and I'm glad I booked this tour through Romanian Friend!
I very much enjoyed my day tour to Turda Salt Mines, Rimetea Village and Albu Iulia. I would definitely recommend Florin as a tour guide. He was very friendly and knowledgeable and made the trip flexible and convenient by picking me up from the airport and dropping me back at my hostel. Marius from Romanian Friend was very helpful and responded to my emails about the tour promptly.
We very much enjoyed our tour with Florin - he was very nice and well-informed. We not only learnt a lot about the history of the Salt Mine and the Alba Iulia Citadel, but also on Transylvania and its people. I would recommend this tour to everyone who visits Cluj-Napoca. It was a very nice way to learn more about Romania and we also enjoyed to see the countryside. And Romanian Friend website helped me a lot to plan our trip. It gives a nice overview of the most important sights in the region, tours and guides, and we would love to return in the summer, e.g. to go hiking in the Apuseni mountains.
We had a day long tour with Ilona, Florin's colleague, who took us on a guided tour of Cluj-Napoca and then to Turda Salt Mine. Her knowledge of the history of Cluj was very impressive, she was great company and we got much more value out of our day in Cluj thanks to her! We would definitely recommend Romanian Friend, all is very professionally handled and we got fast responses to our questions and requests. This was the first time we have had a personal guide, and after this being such a good experience we will use them again, should we return to Romania.
We had a fantastic day with Florin - he is an ideal guide, super friendly and welcoming, very knowledgeable, and passionate about Transylvania and its history! The salt mine is really something else. We had been looking forward to the installations inside but the really amazing thing is the mine itself. Alba Iulia is an extraordinary piece of work, and Florin could point out to us a multitude of details. All topped off by a drive back to Cluj through beautiful scenery. We hope to be back in Romania again and use Romanian Friend to find another great trip and guide!
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