Danube Cruise
Why not go on river cruise of the great massive river, which has great culture, and tourism. It has many different countires, great cities, cultures and architecture.
The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga. It originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance of some 1771 miles, passing through several Central and Eastern European capitals, before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.
Important tourist and natural spots along the Danube, including the Wachau valley, the Nationalpark Donau-Auen in Austria, the Naturpark Obere Donau in Germany, Kopac(ki rit in Croatia, Iron Gate and Danube Delta in Romania.
The Danube is navigable by ocean ships from the Black Sea to Bra(ila in Romania and by river ships to Kelheim, Bavaria; smaller craft can navigate further upstream to Ulm, in Germany. About 60 of its tributaries are also navigable.
Since the completion of the German Rhine–Main–Danube Canal in 1992, the river has been part of a trans-European waterway from Rotterdam on the North Sea to Sulina on the Black Sea (3500 km). In 1994 the Danube was declared one of ten Pan-European transport corridors, routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the following ten to fifteen years. The amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million tons in 1987. In 1999, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of three bridges in Serbia. The clearance of the debris was finished in 2002. The temporary pontoon bridge that hampered navigation was finally removed in 2005.
At the Iron Gate, the Danube flows through a gorge that forms part of a boundary between Serbia and Romania; it contains the hydroelectric Iron Gate I dam, followed at about 60 km downstream (outside the gorge) by the Iron Gate ll dam. On 2006-04-13, a record peak discharge at Iron Gate Dam reached 15,400 m³/s.
There are three artificial waterways built on the Danube: the Danube–Tisa–Danube Canal (DTD) in the Banat and Bac(ka regions (Vojvodina, northern province of Serbia); the 64 km Danube–Black Sea Canal, between Cernavoda( and Constant,a (Romania) finished in 1984, shortens the distance to the Black Sea by 400 km; the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal (about 171 km), finished in 1992, linking the North Sea to the Black Sea.
The Danube flows through the following countries and cities (from source to mouth ordered):
Germany
Tuttlingen in the State of Baden-Württemberg
- the first city it flows through ; Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg ; Ulm
in Baden-Württemberg ; Ingolstadt in Bavaria ; Regensburg in Bavaria ; Passau
in Bavaria
Austria
Linz, capital of Upper Austria ; Vienna - capital
of Austria, where the Danube floodplain is called the Lobau, though the Innere
Stadt is situated away from the main flow of the Danube (it is bounded by the
Donaukanal - 'Danube canal').;
Slovakia
Bratislava - capital of Slovakia
; Komárno ; Štúrovo
Hungary
Gyo"r ; Komárom
l Esztergom ; Visegrád ; Vác ; Szentendre ; Budapest - capital of
Hungary ; Százhalombatta ; Ráckeve ; Dunaújváros ;
Paks ; Baja ; Mohács
Croatia
Vukovar ; Ilok
Serbia
Apatin
- province of Vojvodina ;Bac(ka Palanka - province of Vojvodina ; Novi Sad - capital
of the province of Vojvodina ; Belgrade - the capital of Serbia ; Smederevo ;
Donji Milanovac
Romania
Moldova Noua(Ors,ovao ; Drobeta-Turnu Severin
; Calafat ;Corabia ; Turnu Ma(gurele ; Zimnicea ;Giurgiu ; Oltenit,a ; Ca(la(ras,i
; Fetes,ti ; Cernavoda( ; Hârs,ova ; Bra(ila ; Galat,i ; Isaccea ; Tulcea
; Sulina - the last city it flows through
Bulgaria
Vidin ; Lom ; Kozlodui
; Nikopol ; Belene ; Svishtov ; Rousse ; Tutrakan Silistra
Ukraine
Reni ; Izmail ; Kiliya ; Vylkovo
The Danube River reaches into ten other countries. Some Danubian tributaries are important rivers in their own right, navigable by barges and river boats of shallow draught. Ordered from source to mouth, the main tributaries are:
Iller - Lech - Regen (entering at Regensburg) - Isar (entering just beyond Deggendorf) - Inn (entering at Passau) - Enns - Morava (entering near Devín Castle) - Leitha - Váh (entering at Komárno) - Hron - Ipel - Sió - Dráva - Vuka - Tisza - Sava (entering at Belgrade) - Timis, - Velika Morava - Caras, - Jiu - Iskar - Olt - Vedea - Arges, - Ialomit,a - Siret - Prut
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