Name: Explore beautiful Nessebar and local villages
SKU: 39681
Price: 10 USD
Availability: InStock

Duration: 6h

Activity Level: Easy

Experience: Adventure, Unesco, Historical, Nature

Language: English

Photo permit included

Tour by public transport

Canal Boat tour included

Train tickets included

Suitable for little children

Wheelchair accessible tour

Museum ticket included

Light snack included

Lunch included

Transportation included

Walking Tour

Overview

The main advantage of this tour is a charming atmosphere that waits for you from the first second. First, you will explore the beautiful Nessebar and its attractions, enjoy fascinating stories regarding the local history, told by yor friendly tour guide. Also, you will visit two the local villages. It is a great opportunity not just to see the architecture and to get to know more about traditions, but also is a great chance to meet the local people and to see these areas through their eyes.

What's included

English-speaking guide
Transportation
Entrance fees
Local snacks

Personal expenses
Gratuities

Comfortabl walking shoes required
Pick-up and drop-off at Bourgas cruise port

Highlights

Bourgas

Burgas is the second largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the region of Northern Thrace and the fourth-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv, and Varna, with a population of 202,694 inhabitants, while 277,922 live in its urban area. It is the capital of Burgas Province and an important industrial, transport, cultural and tourist centre. It is classified as the best living city in Bulgaria. The city is surrounded by the Burgas Lakes and located at the westernmost point of the Black Sea, at the large Burgas Bay. The Port of Burgas is the largest port in Bulgaria, and Burgas Airport is the second most important in the country. Burgas is the centre of the Bulgarian fishing and fish processing industry.

Erketch village

Kozichino is still known for its Turkish name of 1934 – Erketch. It is situated on the ridge of Eminska mountain, between the peaks of Balyova Chuka (524 m) and Idilitsa (448 m), 24 km west of Obzor and 32 km north of Burgas as the crow flies. The etymology of the name is from the Turkish word “erken-getch”, which when pronounced fast sound like “erketch” and means “pass and cross” or “leave faster”. There is no exact data of the time the first settlement here – the village is believed to have existed since the times of the First Bulgarian Kingdom. It has been at this place since XV or XVI century, and the first written data are from Turkish tax documents from the middle of XVII century.

Giliovca village

This is a small village that can show you how Bulgaria looked like years ago. For centuries, it hasn't changed much. This is one of the best areas to discover local traditions.

Nessebar

Nesebar is an ancient city and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located in Burgas Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Nesebar Municipality. Often referred to as the "Pearl of the Black Sea", Nesebar is a rich city-museum defined by more than three millennia of ever-changing history. The small city exists in two parts separated by a narrow man-made isthmus with the ancient part of the settlement on the peninsula (previously an island), and the more modern section (i.e. hotels, later development) on the mainland side. The older part bears evidence of occupation by a variety of different civilisations over the course of its existence. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations and seaports on the Black Sea, in what has become a popular area with several large resorts—the largest, Sunny Beach, is situated immediately to the north of Nesebar. Nesebar has on several occasions found itself on the frontier of a threatened empire, and as such it is a town with a rich history. Due to the city's abundance of historic buildings, UNESCO came to include Nesebar in its list of World Heritage Sites in 1983.

Itinerary

09:00

You will be met at the port by your tour guide, get to the air conditioned transportation ready to commence your tour.

First, take a scenic drive to Nessebar. Once you have arrived in Nessebar, your tour guide will accompany you through the fortified walls, the entrance to Old Nessebar, opening up into a maze of quaint cobbled streets. As you walk through the old town, your guide will be pointing out the most important buildings which prompted UNESCO to include the town in its list of World Heritage Sites in 1983. You will then move onto a panoramic drive into the mountains to two villages situated 30km from Nessebar. The first village is Giliovca village. The guide will walk you through describing the village life and how it has not changed for centuries, discover the traditions and get the feel of how the people from this village go on with their day to day way of living. In Giliovca village you can visit a typical house, see where the vegetable and fruit produce is grown and take part in tasting some local home-made brandy known locally as Rakia. After that, you will then continue the tour to the next village – Erketch. On the charming journey to Erketch, the guide will be pointing out the many beautiful pastures, the vegetation as you climb to an altitude of 530m above sea level. There you will be able to visit a traditional home of the people, a home which still has an old machine to make lemonade. Talk to the locals, get aquainted with their way of life.

Try some homemade cheese pastries and yoghurt, have some free time before you end the tour with a picturesque drive back to the port of Bourgas.

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