In the morning pick up from your hotel. Sightseeing tour of Sofia including the most significant landmarks situated in the very city center. You will see a real mixture of tradition and modern culture and will be acquainted to the most interesting facts of the history of the city.
- Departure to the quarter of Boyana. Lunch in a traditional restaurant with a panoramic view over the city. - Visit Boyana church included in the list of UNESCO due to its extremely valuable frescoes dating to 1259. Next to it is situated the National Museum of History. Enjoy the marvellous gold and silver treasures and many more beautiful objects related to the millenium history of Bulgaria.
- Morning departure to the Rila Monastery –The most monumental monastery complex in Bulgaria of extremely high architectural and artistic value. Founded in the 10th century, rebuilt and expanded in 13th – 14th centuries, centre of literature in the 15th century and completed in its present magnificent outlook in the 19th century.
- Visit the monastery complex - the main church, the old kitchen, the museum. Free time.
- Lunch in a restaurant in the neighborhoods of the monastery where you can taste fresh trout and a glass of wine.
- In the morning departure to Plovdiv. Visit the splendid Bachkovo Monastery), the second largest in Bulgaria, situated 25 km from Plovdiv. The refectory is a real treasure with its frescoes dating to 1623.
- Continue to Plovdiv.
- Lunch in traditional Bulgarian restaurant.
- Tour of Plovdiv, declared an architectural museum reserve with over 150 monuments of culture. Its magnificent houses are turned into museums, galleries, workshops, restaurants. There are also parlors and studios of painters and wood-carvers. Visit the Ancient Roman Amphitheater (2nd century A.C), the Roman Stadium, original Roman mosaics "in situ" and many other extremely valuable sites.
- Departure to Sofia. Arrival and drop off at your hotel around 7 pm.
- Morning departure to Koprivshtitsa – one of the most romantic Bulgarian villages with authentic atmosphere and picturesque natural landscapes.
- Visit the Oslekov's House, Kableskov’s house and the house of the most romantic Bulgarian writer Dimtcho Debelyanov. Have a walk on cobblestone streets, winding between high white stone walls and gardens full of greenery.
- Lunch in a restaurants with traditional local dishes.
- Morning departure to Veliko Tarnovo - the medieval capital of Bulgaria - on of the most authentic towns in the country with more than 7000 years of history. The houses, stacked one above the other, situated on the slopy hills of the town show a remarkable, unique architectural style.
- Visit “Tsarevets” fortress,a mediaeval stronghold located on a hill with the same name. It served as the Second Bulgarian Empire's primary fortress and strongest bulwark from 1185 to 1393, housing the royal and the patriarchal palaces. 47 churches and 400 residential houses have been discovered in the whole complex.
- Departure to the village of Arbanassi, a charming village with an eventful history and fascinating architecture. Thirty six of its 80 houses and the five local churches have been declared national monuments of culture.
- Lunch in a traditional restaurant. Taste traditional Bulgarian food and local wine.
- Visit the church of Nativity with its extremely valuable frescoes dating to the 16th century. By all means the church is called The Sistine Chapel on the Balkans.
We provide Transfer Services from Sofia Airport to any destination in Bulgaria. This service is suitable for small parties /4 - 7/ persons who travel together - as well for individuals, business travelers, conference and seminar groups, sport events, golf transfers. With us you can book transfers, arrivals and departures and also individual destinations and routes! We will meet you personally at your terminal arrival gate platform with a board with "Your Name" written on. We will take you to your hotel or other transfer point. Don't worry also about your departure - you just have to pre-book your transfer, we will take you to the airport.
Occupying about 90 sq km or 35 sq miles, near the town of Belogradchik, it is Bulgaria’s only landmark nominated for the global New Seven Wonders of Nature Campaign. The monumental red rocks, some them 200 m high, or 650 ft, in 1841 they inspired French Traveller Jerôme-Adolphe Blanqui to declare that the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Tyrolean mountains in Switzerland insipid in comparison. It is almost impossible to imagine these unearthly formations being shaped only by the prosaic effect to wind, sun, ice and tectonic movements of the dried-up water basin 230 million years ago. The imagination creates legends, though, and some of the peculiarly-shaped stone pillars boasts their own name and some even their own history. Among the best known heroes in the thick fairytale book of the Belogradchick Rocks are the Schoolgirl, the Dervish, the Bear, the Madonna, the Monks, the Horseman, Adam and Eve, the Mushrooms, the Wedding….