Folk dancers Discover Bulgaria Privately escorted tour – 9 days/8 nights
Bulgaria. It is the largest and most famous listed Thracian Tomb dating back to the 4th Thracian Tomb, also UNESCO-listed. This Inclusions Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. century BC. Travel through the historical exquisite three-chamber burial tomb from zz 8 nights accommodation with Overnight Sofia. BLD Shipka Pass to Tryavna, which preserves the 3rd century BC is almost perfectly breakfast in 4-star hotels the spirit and talent of the artists from the preserved and includes 10 female figures zz Meals – 7 lunches, 8 dinners Day 3 Sofia to Plovdiv Tryavna School of Art from the 17th supporting the ceiling. Continue to Ruse zz Arrival/departure transfers by car After breakfast, your tour of Sofia century. Take a walking tour and visit the for a walking tour. Overnight Ruse. BLD zz Transportation by modern A/C introduces you to its 7,000-year old Woodcarving Museum. Continue to Veliko vehicle with English speaking history. You will see St. Sofia Church, Tarnovo. Overnight Veliko Tarnovo. BLD Day 8 Ruse to Ivanovo & Sofia driver/guide Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the 4th Morning departure for Ivanovo, where zz Sightseeing as specified century St. George Rotunda and the ruins Day 6 Veliko Tarnovo & Arbanasi you will see the UNESCO-listed rock-hewn of Serdica. Continue to Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s This morning, you have a sightseeing tour churches and Archangel Michael Rock Your hotels second largest city. Overnight Plovdiv. BLD of Veliko Tarnovo, the ancient capital of Monastery. Return to Ruse for some time the second Bulgarian kingdom (1185-1396), at leisure, before your afternoon departure zz Sofia – BW City Hotel Day 4 Plovdiv & Bachkovo Monastery with a spectacular setting, high above to Sofia. Overnight Sofia. BLD zz Plovdiv – Imperial Your morning tour of Plovdiv, one of the the Yantra River. Take a walking tour of zz Veliko Tarnovo – Panorama most ancient towns in Europe, features the Samovodska Charshiya with its traditional Day 9 Sofia zz Ruse – Dunav Plaza Old Town, with its 19th century National arts and crafts and visit Tsarevets Hill. Tour services end after breakfast, with a Hotel of a similar standard may Revival architecture and 2nd century Continue to the historic museum town of transfer to the airport. B be substituted. Roman amphitheatre. Then visit the 11th Arbanasi and see its ancient houses and century Bachkovo Monastery, one of the churches. Overnight Veliko Tarnovo. BLD Tour price & departures Day 1 Sofia richest treasuries of traditional Bulgarian Day 7 Veliko Tarnovo to Madara, Prices shown per person in AUD. Arrive Sofia. You will be met and transferred religious art. Overnight Plovdiv. BLD Applicable Jan-Dec 2020. to your hotel. Overnight Sofia. D Sveshtari & Ruse Day 5 Plovdiv to Kazanlak, After breakfast, drive to Madara to visit Departures Twn Sgl Day 2 Sofia & Rila Monastery Tryavna & Veliko Tarnovo the UNESCO-listed Madara Horseman – a 1 Jan-14 Dec 4006 4692 Morning departure for the UNESCO-listed Depart for Kazanlak, capital of the famous medieval relief carved into a 100m high Rila Monastery complex. It was founded in Valley of the Roses. View the Thracian cliff, depicting a majestic horseman If only one person on tour 7800 the 10th century by the hermit Ivan Rilsky, golden treasures in Kazanlak’s Historical thrusting a spear into a lion at his feet. zz Small group tours conducted by who was canonised as a patron saint of Museum and the replica of the UNESCO- Continue to Sveshtari, to visit the Sveshtari bilingual escort also available.
Ruse Sveshtari ROMANIA Ivanovo
Madara
BULGARIA Veliko Tarnovo Arbanasi
Black Tryavna Sea Sofia Kazanlak V ALLEY OF THE ROSES
Plovdiv
Rila Monastery Bachk o vo TURKEY Monastery Rila Monastery
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