Your Itinerary
Day 1: Arriving in Sofia
Bus transfer to the hotel. Accommodation. Afternoon sightseeing tour of the capital, a city with thousands of years of history. The tour includes a visit to the impressive Alexander Nevski memorial Cathedral and continues with a panoramic walking with the guide to other major landmarks: the Sofia University, the National Assembly, the Russian Church, the Rotonda of St. George, the Roman ruins, the Orthodox Church of St. Nedelia, the Central Synagogue, the remains of the city’s ancient Byzantine walls and other worth to see highlights. Dinner at the hotel. Overnight.
Day 2: Sofia – Rila Monastery – Bansko
After breakfast departure to Rila Monastery – the largest on the Balkans, included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage. Tour of the Monastery. Lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch continue to the famous village of Bansko. Tour of the village and the church. Dinner at a local restaurant with a chance to taste the famous dishes of the region - Kapama, Babek, Banski starets. Overnight in Bansko.
Bansko Style Kapama
The preparation of this dish requires a lot of time and patience. Usually it is cooked for Christmas Eve.
Ingredients: 1 kg minced pork, 300 g pork ribs, 1 hen, 2 small pickled cabbages, 300 g karvavitsa (home made sausage), 300 g rise, 3-4 onions, 250 g bacon, 10 g red pepper, 15-20 black pepper grains, salt to taste.
The minced meat is mixed with the minced onion, the rise, the red pepper ant the salt to taste. Part of the mixture is used to stuff the hen while the rest of the mixture is used to stuff cabbage leaves in the form of sarmi.
On the bottom of a big pot the sliced bacon is put, the pork ribs and the cut cabbage cores. The hen is placed on top of these and around the hen the sarmi are arranged. The karvavitsa is put on the top.
The dish is powdered with the black pepper, cabbage leaves are used to cover the dish, 1.5 glass of water is poured. The lid of the pot is slurred over with dough. After the dish starts to boil it is put in the moderately hot oven and baked for 3 hours. It is served in a large baking dish - the hen and the karvavitsa are in the middle and the sarmi around them. Enjoy.
Day 3: Bansko – Melnik - Sofia
After breakfast departure to the smallest town of Melnik, with a short tour of the town and lunch in a local restaurant with wine tasting of the famous red wine that was Mr. Winston Churchil’s favorite. After lunch back to Sofia. In the evening dinner in a folklore restaurant. Overnight in Sofia.
Day 4: Sofia - Departure
After breakfast - transfer to the airport for the departure flight.
Included:
- Meet and assist at the airport of arrival
- Bus/minibus/car transportation throughout the duration of the tour
- Accommodation at a 4-stars hotel in Sofia and Bansko
- All breakfasts, lunches and dinners throughout the duration of the tour
- Wine tasting in Melnik town
- 2 dinners at a typical Bulgarian folklore restaurant
- Professional guide services in different languages
- All entrance fees and taxes in monastery, museums, attractions, etc.
Excluded:
- Air fares to/from Bulgaria
- Any alcoholic beverages throughout the duration of the tour (appart from the wine tasting)
- Personal Accident Insurance.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Prices will vary with longer or shorter stays and single supplement,
Single supplement - 45 EUR
Tour price per person for:
Groups of 7 to 14 prs. - 215 EUR in DBL room, 260 EUR in SGL room
Groups of 4 to 6 prs. - 255 EUR in DBL room, 300 EUR in SGL room
Individual travel of 1 to 3 prs. - 340 EUR in DBL room, 385 EUR in SGL room. The transportation will be by luxury car or minibus.
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