• Arrival and departure transfers

Day 1

BULGARIA
Arrival Sofia Airport. Panorama Tour. Check in at a 3* central hotel. Overnight.

Day 2

BULGARIA
Proceed with the tour of Sofia to see all major sites and departure to Rila Monastery UNESCO site. Tour of the monastery. Return to Sofia. Overnight at the same hotel.

Day 3

BULGARIA
Morning visit of Boyana Church UNESCO site near Sofia and proceed to Plovdiv. Arrival after 2 hours. Check in at the hotel. Tour of Plovdiv, incl. the Roman Amphitheatre, St. Constantine and Helena Church, Hindlian House. Overnight 3* hotel.

Day 4

BULGARIA
Departure to to Kazanluk – the centre of the Rose Valley, known as well as the Valley of the Thracian Kings. Tasting of rose products and explanation of the distillery process. Visit Kazanluk Thracian Tomb ( UNESCO site, copy ), Goliama Kosmatka Thracian tomb, proceed via Shipka memorial peak and the church to Etura Open Air Ethnographic complex. Short stop to Drianovo Monastery. Evening arrival in Veliko Turnovo – the Mediaeval capital city of Bulgaria. Overnight 4* hotel.

Day 5

BULGARIA
Full day in Veliko Turnovo – visit Tsarevets Royal Hill with the fortress, the Patrioarh’s complex and Baldwin tower ( the leader of the 4th Crusade ). Afternoon to Arbanassi museum village and Petropavlovski Monastery. Overnight at the same hotel.

Day 6

BULGARIA / ROMANIA
Morning departure to Ivanovo Rock Monasteries UNESCO site. Short stop in Ruse border city. Proceed via the Bridge of Friendship ( the only one bridge on Danube between Bulgaria and Romania ) to Bucharest. Arrival Bucharest. Check in 4* hotel in the centre of the city. Dinner in Pescarus restaurant, with folk music and dance.

Day 7

ROMANIA
Sightseeing tour of Bucharest, then to Curtea de Arges to see its Byzanthine monastery, and arriving in the foothills of Carpatians, in the spa town of BAILE GOVORA. Check in hotel Belvedere 3*.

Day 8

ROMANIA
We go long the Olt valley to reach SIBIU, that is in 2007 european capital of culture. Visit of the old town and we continue through saxon Transylvania to the medieval citadel of Sighisoara. It is where was born Vlad the Impaler or... Dracula! Dinner and night in the heart of the UNESCO citadel, in a cosy 3* hotel.

Day 9

ROMANIA
We see this morning the saxon villages with pastel colours and fortified churches, before arriving in an ancient merchant city, at Brasov. To night we are in the real carpathians , spending the night in the ski resort of Poiana Brasov, at hotel Alpin 4*, dinner in a traditional restaurant nearby with music.

Day 10

Visits of the famous Bran castle, so-called Dracula castle and the baroque and beautiful Peles castle in Sinaia. Night in SINAIA hotel 4* dinner in town

Day 11

ROMANIA
Transfer directly to Bucharest airport being in the north of the city.