Bike package for Cross Country –X/C  Borovets - Bulgaria – Rila mountain Borovets &Vitosha mountain-Sofia

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It includes:

• 7 nights in Hotel Festa Winter Palace: Hotel Iglika or Club Hotel MUSALA full board + SPA

• 6 days biking - with 1 guides who speaking English or Hebrew.

• Lunch - picnic with meat, fish, banitsa (borekas - bulgari) salads, fruits and vegetables.

• Drinks ( Beer, Coffe, Juices, Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite + Energy drinks + ISOSTAR +free mineral water ) + Energy blocks

• Whole logistic

• Transporting the tourists and their bikes from one place to another.

• Traditional Folklore Night, which includes traditional Bulgarian food and music and dances

• Transportation from airport Sofia-Borovets - airport Sofia.

• According to tourist’s wishes - trip in Sofia – shopping.

 

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7 days X\C-CROSS-COUNTRY in Rilla &Vitosha -mountain-Borovets-Sofia

          

All mountain tours are made around the most beautiful places in the highest mountain in Bulgaria-Rilla mountain ang Vitosha mountain. Biking will be done in essential paths and rivers, also we are going to move through wood bridges. In some of the roads we will use gondolas ang buses to help tourists to achieve and enjoy longer the highest and the most beautiful mountain sights.

 

Rilla mountain is the highest and oldest mountain in Bulgaria. Home of some of the most attractive natural sightseeings. Here we will enjoy wild rivers and waterfalls, dangerous caves, old forests, big dams and amazing lakes .In Rilla mountain, tourists will visit one of the biggest sightseeing in Bulgaria-The Rilla Monastery. Going through the beautiful mountain villages, tourists will see how Bulgarian people live and they will enjoy magical place.

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Day1:

Arrival at airport Sofia, meeting the tourists, meet them with our Bulgarian team, travelling to Borovets- 1h. We will start with lunch or dinner, according to flight and the day of arrival.

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Day 2:

We start from the hotel and head to Sokolets Peak. Then we descend the valley and cross the longest river in Bulgaria-ISKAR. Passing over the rocks we will end up in the amazing area Lukovitsa incredible place in Rilla mountain.

 

Route length - 52 km,

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Elevation Gain -580m

 

Day3:

We start from the hotel, and we enter the dense forest -White Meadow. Then we turn in the direction of the ancient village- Shipoichan. Passing through great landscapes and views we will finish in Borovets.

 

Route length-42k.m.

 

Elevation Gain 780m.

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Day 4.

We leave by minibus to the village of Mala Tsarkva-20min. We start from waterfall Beli Iskar and move on to hut Vada, crossing the Seven Rilla Lakes-one of the most beautiful and visited places in Bulgaria, From there we will enjoy the views and descend to the village of Saparevo and will finish next to geyser Sapareva Bania. Visiting the MINERAL SPA CENTRE in Sapareva Bania.

 

Route length-58km.

 

Elevation Gain 720m.

 

Return to the hotel by minibus-30 min,

 

Day 5:

Transport the tourists and their bikes from Borovets to Vitosha mountain- 40 min. We start from village Jeleznica and head to the incredible panoramic path of Vitosha Mountain, and the end of this wonderful and full of beauty day will end at Boyana Church - Sofia city.

 

Route length -44 km.

 

Elevation Gain 680m.

 

Return to the hotel by minibus-45min.

 

Day 6:

Transport the tourists and their bikes from Borovets to village Alino- 20 min. We start from Alino-park and we go to the picturesque village of Plana and one of the oldest monasteries in Bulgaria Kokalyanski monastery. Then we cross the Iskar River- Green Rid and we end at Alino Dam.

 

Route  length -56 km,

 

Elevation Gain 640 m.

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Day 7:

We climb with the gondola lift to peak Yastrebest-2370m.- Then we go to the foot of the highest peak in the Balkans - peak Musala 2925m.but we reach the hut Musala- 2500m, the Frozen lake,  and hut Saint George Borovets.

 

Route length 46 km.

 

Elevation Gain 320m.

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Day 8:

Departure from Borovets to Sofia (shopping excursion) then departure for the airport.

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Every tour could be made easier or harder, shorter or longer, according to tourists' physical condition, through scenic and mechanical walkways. Every tour is connected with rests, lunches, and drinks. Every trail is connected by crossing one of the most beautiful and famous historical places in Rilla Mountain and Bulgaria.