Highlights of the Bulgarian Northern Black Sea Coast from Varna
Varna, Bulgaria
Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 8 hours
This is a one-day slow sightseeing tour by car starting from Varna, Bulgaria. We will visit the following places and will stay there enough time to fully enjoy the area: Balchik, Balchik Palace and the Botanical Garden; Balchishka Tuzla; Kavarna, Cape Kaliakra and The Bolata Cove. The tour will start from your accommodation in Varna. After we finish, we will drive you back to your place. We will have lunch at a nice place with sea view and tasteful sea food.
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This is a one-day slow sightseeing tour by car starting from Varna, Bulgaria. We will visit the following places and will stay there enough time to fully enjoy the area: Balchik, Balchik Palace and the Botanical Garden; Balchishka Tuzla; Kavarna, Cape Kaliakra and The Bolata Cove. The tour will start from your accommodation in Varna. After we finish, we will drive you back to your place. We will have lunch at a nice place with sea view and tasteful sea food.
Balchik is a Black Sea coastal town and seaside resort in the Southern Dobruja area of North-eastern Bulgaria, 42 km north east of Varna. The town sprawls scenically along hilly terraces descending from the Dobruja plateau to the sea.
The Balchik Palace is a palace in the Bulgarian Black Sea town and resort of Balchik in Southern Dobruja. It was constructed between 1926 and 1937, during the Romanian control of the region, for the needs of Queen Marie of Romania. The palace complex consists of a number of residential villas, a smoking hall, a wine cellar, a power station, a monastery, a holy spring, a chapel and many other buildings, as well as most notably a park that is today a state-run botanical garden.
In 1940, after the reincorporation of Southern Dobruja in Bulgaria with the Treaty of Craiova, the Balchik Botanical Garden was established at the place of the palace's park. It has an area of 65,000 m² and accommodates 2000 plant species belonging to 85 families and 200 genera. One of the garden's main attractions is the collection of large-sized cactus species arranged outdoors on 1000 m², the second of its kind in Europe after the one in Monaco. Other notable species include the Metasequoia, the Para rubber tree and the Ginkgo.
Balchishka Tuzla lies 4 kilometres east of the town of Balchik. The settlement is known as mud healing resort with mineral water spring. There is a wonderful beach and a small fishermen village. Kaliakra is a long and narrow headland in the Southern Dobruja region of the northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located 12 km east of Kavarna and 60 km northeast of Varna. The coast is steep with vertical cliffs reaching 70 m down to the sea. Kaliakra is a nature reserve, where dolphins and cormorants can be observed. It sits on the Via Pontica, a major bird migration route from Africa into Eastern and Northern Europe. Many rare and migrant birds can be seen here in Spring and Autumn and, like much of this coastline, is home to several rare breeding birds (e.g. Pied Wheatear and a local race of European Shag). It also features the remnants of the fortified walls, water-main, baths and residence of Despot Dobrotitsa in the short-lived Principality of Karvuna's medieval capital. The Bolata Cove with a small sheltered beach lies just north at the mouth of a picturesque canyon, also part of the nature reserve.
The Balchik Palace is a palace in the Bulgarian Black Sea town and resort of Balchik in Southern Dobruja. It was constructed between 1926 and 1937, during the Romanian control of the region, for the needs of Queen Marie of Romania. The palace complex consists of a number of residential villas, a smoking hall, a wine cellar, a power station, a monastery, a holy spring, a chapel and many other buildings, as well as most notably a park that is today a state-run botanical garden.
In 1940, after the reincorporation of Southern Dobruja in Bulgaria with the Treaty of Craiova, the Balchik Botanical Garden was established at the place of the palace's park. It has an area of 65,000 m² and accommodates 2000 plant species belonging to 85 families and 200 genera. One of the garden's main attractions is the collection of large-sized cactus species arranged outdoors on 1000 m², the second of its kind in Europe after the one in Monaco. Other notable species include the Metasequoia, the Para rubber tree and the Ginkgo.
Balchishka Tuzla lies 4 kilometres east of the town of Balchik. The settlement is known as mud healing resort with mineral water spring. There is a wonderful beach and a small fishermen village. Kaliakra is a long and narrow headland in the Southern Dobruja region of the northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located 12 km east of Kavarna and 60 km northeast of Varna. The coast is steep with vertical cliffs reaching 70 m down to the sea. Kaliakra is a nature reserve, where dolphins and cormorants can be observed. It sits on the Via Pontica, a major bird migration route from Africa into Eastern and Northern Europe. Many rare and migrant birds can be seen here in Spring and Autumn and, like much of this coastline, is home to several rare breeding birds (e.g. Pied Wheatear and a local race of European Shag). It also features the remnants of the fortified walls, water-main, baths and residence of Despot Dobrotitsa in the short-lived Principality of Karvuna's medieval capital. The Bolata Cove with a small sheltered beach lies just north at the mouth of a picturesque canyon, also part of the nature reserve.
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