Local Hosts turns tourists into locals and locals into tourists.
We know that during a tour it's best to stop for refreshments and quick bites! Thus, we've included them in all our tours.
Join us for a different experience in small groups & off the beaten path views!
We all want to hold in the everlasting gaze. A tour for the curious, the bold, and the spirited. Departing the Old Town by tube to visit the oldest and most beautiful cemetery in town. It’s basically an open-air museum, comparable to Père Lachaise. Enchanted in the rapture of its mysterious stories, we’ll take a turn through a lively park little-known to tourists but cherished by locals. Then we drop inside the oldest train station in Romania, and then we check out the former KGB headquarters close by. We’ll take a break at an old factory turned into a cultural hub, a perfect spot for quirky souvenirs and refreshments. And lastly, we’ll show you a secret passage to an old Mahalla, the oriental term for ‘neighborhood’.
Posted By : zigy_h
Although I live in Bucharest and know the city quite well, I decided it was worth going to the Bellu Cemetery / Museum with a guide, Mircea was able to show me another face of the city and to arouse my interest to find out more about the city in witch I live daily, to transpose myself with his stories in a part of Bucharest and in historical moments of the city too little known to me.
Thank you Mircea, you are a great guide, I do not know how time went by.
I can drink a cofee anytime with you just to find out more about this peculiar city we live in.
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Posted On : 2019-11-25 05:32:59 
Posted By : virgpro
Mircea is an incredible guide and this is a great experience !!! The tour has lots to offer and i recommand for everybody :)
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Posted On : 2019-11-07 09:22:55
Posted By : CristiV_12
Me and my wife took the tour out of curiosity after a friend mentioned it to us.
Even though we're both born and raised in Bucharest, we had never truly paid attention to the places we visited during the tour. Plenty of things we had never heard about. You could tell the guide puts passion into his work. Well paced. For us, it turned out to be an afternoon well spent.
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Posted On : 2019-07-30 15:44:37
Posted By : Paula E
Although I know Bucharest relatively well, having been a regular visitor since I was a child, I found out a lot of stories during this tour that made me understand the city in more depth - particularly in terms of its history. I was especially into the part creepy-mystical, part heart-breaking/warming stories of the intellectual and commercial elite of the 19th and 20th century in the Bellu cemetery - great to have a local host to guide you through that maze and share the stories! But also to see the parts of the city that are associated with the marginalised and the poor, and the lesser known city locations that gave me more of a glimpse into Romanian communism and its heritage. I fully recommend it, and suggest you ask the host as many questions as you can! It's definitely a dialogue thing. The more you put into it, the more you get out of it!
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Posted On : 2019-07-25 14:31:28
Posted By : 999sergium
We did this on a beautiful spring day and we enjoyed it very much. Never been to cemeteries before with a guided tour, so this surprised us. Nice local people and food on the tour. Thank you
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Posted On : 2019-06-17 06:47:44
Posted By : ovis69
Mircea took us through the Bucharest historical tour with great passion. Let a local tell you the real story. It is a great way to learn about this city full of beautiful contradictions through its monuments and architecture. It was a 5 hour walk, but it feels like it ends so fast.
Mircea obviously loves his city, his commentary was both informative and entertaining, and the little nuggets of history he threw in really helped us appreciate the areas we moved through.
Thanks again Mircea and everyone at Local Hosts!”
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Posted On : 2019-05-14 07:19:10
