1st day |
Transfer to the hotel. Accommodation. Optional: Typical dinner with Folkloric Show. |
2nd day |
Breakfast. City tour. Lunch. Visit to the Boyana Church. Visit to the National Museum of History. Overnight in Sofia. |
3rd day |
Breakfast. Departure to the Rila Monastery. Lunch there. Return to Sofia. Overnight in Sofia (260 km). |
4th day |
Breakfast. Departure to Kazanlak, the capital of the Rose Valley. Lunch beside the Lake-dam Koprinka. In the bottom of the lake there are the ruins of the ancient capital of the Thracian kingdom: Sevtopolis. Visit of the Thracian Tomb and the Museum of the Rose. Overnight in Kazanlak (254 km). |
5th day |
Breakfast. Departure to Nessebar, a town located in a small peninsula in the southern part of the Black Sea. Lunch there. Overnight in Bourgas (222 km). |
6th day |
Breakfast. Departure to Northern Bulgaria by the coast road. Stop to see the Madara Horseman: a monumental rock bas-relief of the 8th century at a height of 23 metres on a vertical rock. Lunch. In the afternoon visit to Veliki Preslav, the second capital of the I Bulgarian Kingdom. Overnight in Shoumen (148 km). |
7th day |
Breakfast. Departure to Sveshtari. On route visit to Pliska, first capital of the I Bulgarian Kingdom. Visit of the Thracian Tomb at Sveshtari. Continue to Rousse. Lunch and accommodation. Optional: 1 hour turn on ship by Danube river (115 km). |
8th day |
Breakfast. Departure to Sofia. On route: Ivanovo Monastery - Rocks churches. Compound of churches, chapels and monk cells, carved into the rocks along both banks of the Rusenski Lom river at a height of 6 to 10 m. The compound was inhabitated by monks till the 17th century.
Lunch at Veliko Tarnovo. Overnight in Sofia (265 km).
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9th day |
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport.
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