Our Team: Danube Delta Guides and Staff
The guides who take you out on the water, and the team in Tulcea who make every trip happen.
Guides and office
The people you will meet
Most of our guides studied biology or ecology, have long years of fieldwork with the Romanian Ornithological Society (SOR) and have taken part in international wildlife monitoring projects. What they all share is a passion for nature, for birds and for the Danube Delta.
We are on the water every day, in every season, even between tours: wildlife monitoring, filming and photography keep us out there all year. We are the largest team of guides in the Danube Delta, and our colleagues who live in Mila 23 all year round are part of the team too, out on the water every day. We share everything we see. When one of us spots something interesting, the whole team knows within minutes, and so does your guide.
Birdwatching guide · with us since 2016
Marius Cornel Dima
“I fell for birds as a child, in the summers at my grandparents’ home by Lake Razelm. Professor Eugen Petrescu taught me to truly understand nature and set me on this path.”
Leads our birdwatching tours. Many guests count him among the best birding guides they have met anywhere in the world.
Birdwatching guide · with us since 2024
Andrei Daniel Cotoara
A graduate of the Faculty of Biology in Bucharest, Andrei works in bird monitoring, field research and conservation, and brings that science with him on the boat.
Guides our birdwatching and nature tours.
Danube Delta guide · with us since 2012
Ionut “Caiacea” Iosif
“I know the routes, the birds and the remote corners that are hard to reach by boat: everything that makes the Danube Delta beautiful.”
Guides our nature and photo tours.
Danube Delta guide · with us since 2015
Iulian “Julian” Seredencu
“I have guided in the Danube Delta since 2012, and I know its lakes, its winding channels and its birdlife.”
Guides our nature tours.
Travel coordinator
Calina Avanu
“A mountain soul from Sinaia, I have worked as a travel coordinator since 2010. In 2018 I discovered the Danube Delta, a different world of water and wildlife, and stayed for the guiding and the logistics.”
Plans the logistics of your trip and answers many of your emails.
Programmer
Corneliu Leu
“I grew up in Braila, by the Danube. At six I went fishing with my uncle, first from the shore, then from a boat, later from a kayak, which takes you into the shallowest and most untouched waters.”
Keeps this website and our booking systems running. Part of the team, in spirit, since 1998.
Founder
Iliuta Goean
“Born in Bucharest, I only understood after thirty where I truly belong: in the Danube Delta and Dobrogea. In 2004 I left the city behind to live close to nature, on the water itself.”
“For me, luxury means doing what I love. I am a wildlife photographer, and I still guide photography and birding tours myself: in the Danube Delta from April to October, and at Lake Kerkini in Greece from October to April.”
Many of the photographs on this website are his, taken from the same open boats you will travel in. He designed them for wildlife and quiet travel.
Travel with them