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Ornithologists
Tours
Winter:
January - March
Tour Duration: 6 to 8 days; Places to visit: the Black Sea coast
Birdwatchers are offered the excellent opportunity to see thousands of Red-breasted
and other geese, Pygmy Cormorants, White-headed Duck, Dalmatian Pelicans and
over 100 species of other interesting and rare birds.
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Spring:
April - June
Tour duration: 12 to 16 days. Places to visit: Sofia region, Rhodopi Mountains,
the Black Sea coast, the marshes and other wetlands along the Danube
River plain.
Birdwatchers can see more than 180 bird-species, some of them are unique among
their likes: Black, Griffon and Egyptian Vultures, Imperial Eagle, Levant Sparrow
hawk, Long-legged Buzzard,
Lesser Spotted Eagle, Short-toed Eagle, Red-footed Falcon, Black Stork, Ferruginous
Duck, Dalmatian and White Pelicans, Pygmy Cormorant, Collared Pratincole, Eagle
Owl, Pallid Swift, Roller, Rock Nuthatch, Wall creeper, Masked Shrike, Olive-tree
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Autumn:
from 25th August to 10th October
Tour duration: 7 to 10 days. Places to visit: the Black Sea coast.
Birdwatchers have the rare opportunity to see the spectacular sight of the autumn
migration along the Via Pontica Migratory Flyway, known since ancient times -
thousands of Storks, Pelicans, Buzzards, and Honey Buzzards, Eagles, Falcons,
shore-birds.
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Tours
for watching Bears and other mammals: from April to October
Tour duration:
7 to 10 days. Places to visit: the Pirin Mountains,the
Balkan Range and the Danube
riverside.
During that tour one can watch Bears, Sousliks, Foxes, Jackals, Wisent /European
Bison/, and if you really lucky, you can watch Wolves as well.
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Tours
for Butterflies lovers: from May to July.
Tour duration: 12 to 14 days. Places to visit: the Rila and the Pirin Mountains,
the Balkan Range, the Rhodopi Mountains, and the Black Sea coast.
This is another excellent chance to see and to take numerous pictures of at least
60 species of Butterflies, among them are Boloria palens
rilaensis, Erebia Rhodopensis, Erebia ottomana Balcanica, Limenitis populi, Pieris
krueperi, Pieris mannii, Apopestres spectrum, Autophila ligaminosa, Melanargia
larissa, Erebia medusa, Erebia alberganus phorcys and many others |
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Tour
for Botanists: from mid-April to July.
Tour duration: 12 to 14 days. Places to visit: the Vitosha, the Rila, the Pirin
and the Rhodopi Mountains.
Bulgaria is extremely rich in rare and unique species of plants. A good number
of the Bulgarian and Balkan endemic species are among them as follows: Lilium
jancae, Minuartia Bulgarica, Leontodon rilaensis, Jasionella Bulgarica, Poa Macedonica,
Geum Bulgaricum, Pinus peuce, Primula deorum, Delphinium Macedonicum, Habellea
Rhodopensis, Viola Rhodopea, Geum Rhodopaeum, Dianthus microlepis and many others. |
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HIGH MOUNTAINS EXPERIENCE for KEEN WALKERS
Across the Rila & Pirin Mountains
the highest mountains on the Balkan Peninsula
A 14-day Tour of the Rila and Pirin Mountains designed for keen mountain
walkers on foot paths as most of the over-nights are in mountain huts
and chalets.
Day
1 - Arrival in Sofia. Depends on the time of arrival and clients'
request, they can stay either at a hotel in Sofia or in the resort of
Borovets.
Day
2 -
After breakfast the trip starts by either taking the Gondola lift up
to the Yastrebets
at 2350 m., or by climbing to that point which
takes 5-6 hours. Then to the Mussala hut at 2389 m., 40 min. easy walk,
and to the "Ledeno Ezero"/ the Ice lake/ at 2723 m. a gentle
climb for an hour and a half. An overnight at the hut under the same
name.
Day
3 -
After breakfast you start climbing the Mussala peak, 2925 m., the highest
not only
in Bulgaria but on the Balkan peninsula, higher
than Olympus, the 6th high in Europe an easy half an hour climb. Then
down the southern slope to "Granchar" Hut for an overnight
stay. It will take approx. 5 hrs. Overnight.
Day
4 -
Breakfast and departure for Treshtenik, then down to Gotze Delchev
at 1600 m.
From there a local bus takes clients to Dobrinishte, a spa
treatment center. Then a walk to "Gotze Delchev" hut, and from
there by a lift up to "Bezbog" hut at 2236 m. for the overnight.
Day
5 -
After breakfast follows a bit difficult 5-hour climb to the "Tevno
Lake", at 2515 m. and to the hut there for the overnight.
Day
6 -
Breakfast then starts another 5-hour walk through the most picturesque
parts
of the Pirin Mountains to the "Kamenitsa" hut at 1750
m. Overnight stay there.
Day
7 -
Breakfast. Then follows a 4-hour easy walk with little climbing to
an area called "Spano Pole", meaning the 'mushrooms field'.
Overnight at the "Spano Pole" chalets.
Day
8 -
Breakfast. From "Spano Pole" to Sinanitza, at 2200
m. there are a couple of hours of climbing then an easy walk down of
approx. 4 hours to Sinanitza. Overnight.
Day
9 -
Breakfast. Then follows a gentle 6-hour walk to "Vihren" hut
at 1950 m. or "Banderitsa" hut. Overnight.
Day
10 -
Breakfast. Then climb of the highest peak of the Pirin Mountains, 2914
m., the
second high in Bulgaria. This is a 2 and a half hour difficult
climb, then through a ridge, called "Koncheto" /horse back/,
which at places is only half a meter wide !!! Then down to "Yavorov" hut,
1142 m., an approx. 4-hour difficult walk. Overnight.
Day
11 -
Breakfast, followed by a very pleasant walk to a place called "Predela",
where the Rila and Pirin mountains /the so called Bulgarian "Alps"/
meet. Overnight at the "Predela" hut.
Day
12 -
Breakfast, followed by a 6 hour difficult climb from "Predela" to "Makedonia" hut
at 2166 m. Overnight.
Day 13 - Breakfast. Then starts an 8-hour walk along
the ridge of the Central Rila Mountains, across the Cherna Polyana peak,
2716 m. to the
Fish Lakes area and the hut in the same name. Overnight.
Day
14 -
After breakfast comes the last walk in the program to the Rila Monastery,
an approx.3-hour
downhill to Kirilova Polyana, and an hour
and a half again downhill to the Rila Monastery. Overnight at the "Kirilova
polyana" chalets.
Day
15 - Breakfast and a transfer to Sofia airport for the flight home.
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