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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
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| 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...
Bourgas Gallery
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