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Bourgas

 
The nearest main Seaside Town to Voden and a great center for exploring the coast. Sozopol, Sunny beach and Nesebar are within 15 to 20 mins and it's just a 50 minute drive from Voden.

Burgas (Bourgas) is modern and vibrant, with pedestrianised streets full of shops and restaurants where you can sit outside. Everything is a little more expensive being on the coast, but is still good value for money. When we stay in Bourgas (Burgas) we stay at the Chiplakoff hotel, which can be booked through Silky Holidays. It's cheap, spotlessly clean, modern with nice sized rooms, the food is great and the staff are friendly. It's along a side street and is an easy 15 minute stroll to the Town center.

You could stay at the Hotel Bulgaria if you like, which is a massive building in the Town center and always seems to have dodgy looking black 4x4's and Mercs with blacked out windows parked outside...

Opposite the Hotel Bulgaria is a large modern shopping arcade with mirrored facade, where you can blow your money on a genuine Rolex or Luis Vitton handbag. I much prefer popping to Nesebar and getting them for a tenner...

The rest of the main streets consist of small shops, cafe's restaurants - and a Macdonalds, and is great to stroll around, which seems to be the main occupation for most of the locals.

 
Women planting bulbs in Bourgas - Bulgaria One of the pedestrian only side streets in Burgas - Bulgarian Black sea Coast One of the pedestrian shopping areas in Burgas Town center - Eastern Europe Bulgaria Small area of Burgas Beach with a bit of the town park on the left. Black sea coast One of the entrances to the town park in Bourgas - Black sea Coast
Protected Marshland, on the outskirts of Bourgas - Black sea Coast, Bulgaria
Flowers on Burgas Beach - Bulgaria One of the rest areas in the Pedestrian area in Burgas - Bulgaria, Black Sea Coast The Pier at Bourgas beach, Black Sea. The area is currently being regenerated Another pedestrian area in Burgas - Black sea coast, Bulgaria

Burgas has a wonderful Town park, that stretches along one side of the town. It has teams of gardeners and street cleaners going around all the time and is always busy. It has a number of bars, restaurants, street vendors and children's play areas scattered through it.

Beyond the park is the Beach which is quite a narrow strip but stretches for miles. Going to the beach seems to be a bit of an afterthought in Burgas, as it never seems to be crowded - perhaps we visit at the wrong (or right) times? Anyway, it's a lovely beach, pretty clean, with a calm, beautifully blue sea. Again, there are a number of bars and cafes all along the beach and it makes for a pleasant visit. 

Some of the beach area is currently undergoing some regeneration work, not sure what it is, but it looks impressive.

You can also pick up a copy of the monthly English language paper the "Sunny Times". It's unique as being the only free English language newspaper in the area.

Burgas is also a center for the Autumn bird migration, which is not to be missed! Massive numbers of birds including Storks, Vultures, Harriers, Buzzards, Eagles, other rare European raptors, Warblers, Flycatchers and many more breeds can all be seen as they head down the Black sea coast towards their warm wintering grounds in the south.

All around the Burgas and Yambol districts are huge expanses of untouched forests and plains (The plains of Thrace) and protected marsh land. Black bears, wild boar, deer and dozens of other animals and birds may be spotted in the area...


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