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The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
Descend into Ilok's 15th-century royal wine cellars — the oldest continuously used cellars in Croatia — for an exclusive private tasting of the legendary Graševina and Traminac wines that once graced Habsburg imperial tables.
Walk the ramparts of one of the best-preserved medieval fortresses on the Danube, then step inside the baroque Odescalchi Castle for a private, curator-level tour of Ilok's layered Ottoman, Hungarian, and Habsburg past.
A private chauffeured tour through the sun-drenched Srijem wine road — Croatia's oldest wine region — stopping at boutique family estates for cellar visits and a long, leisurely harvest-table lunch overlooking the Danube plain.
Paddle a double sea-kayak from Ilok's historic waterfront across the Danube to a pristine uninhabited sandbar island, where the river marks the Croatia–Serbia border — a bucket-list moment of solitude on Europe's great river.
Step inside the 15th-century Franciscan monastery where St. John of Capistrano died in 1456 after the Siege of Belgrade — one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites in Slavonia, visited by virtually no cruise passengers.
Board a private wooden riverboat into Kopački Rit — one of Europe's largest and most biodiverse wetland reserves — for a guided wildlife safari through flooded forest channels teeming with white-tailed eagles, black storks, and Danube carp.
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