Bulgaria

What a Bulgaria trip is like for you: our experience

ETAR ethnographic museum near Gabrovo in Bulgaria
ETAR ethnographic museum near Gabrovo in Bulgaria

When making your first trip to a country, you can approach it in several ways depending on your habits and preferences.

Well you can go on your own or you sign up for a trip organized by an agency.

But there is a formula that offers you the advantages of both modalities, which is that of tailor-made trip.

It may be that you like and are used to traveling on your own, avoiding massive groups of tourists.

But it may also be somewhat scary to face a trip to a country that you barely know about and that presents other difficulties such as the language.

This would be the case, for example, of Bulgaria, where I have recently traveled, a country about which, in general, we Spaniards hardly know anything about its characteristics and attractions.

Also in Bulgaria They speak a Cyrillic language, so it is impossible to understand the written texts on most of the signs and signs.

On the other hand, I can tell you that in Bulgaria It is not common for people to speak English, only some young people who serve you in hotel or restaurant establishments speak it, and, by the way, quite well.

Landscape with sunflower fields in Bulgaria
Landscape with sunflower fields in Bulgaria

Tailor-made trips to Bulgaria

The aforementioned formula of tailor-made trip It is ideal for this case, especially after the experience lived in the recent trip to bulgaria made with the VB agency property of Yonka Bakardhieva, a tourism professional expert in organizing trips to that country.

And I affirm this from my long traveling experience, in which I am accustomed to organize trips on my own for the advantages it provides when making the most appropriate visits to your taste, and also at your pace.

After Bulgaria trip experience organized by Yonka For a small group of tourists that I joined, I will tell you that it satisfactorily meets those premises, also providing a comfort that truly becomes an ideal way to travel.

TAILORED TRIPS to BULGARIA with YONKA

To organize your trip to Bulgaria tailored to your preferences and needs, you can contact the Yonka Bakardhieva's VB agency through the following email: tripsabulgaria@abv.bg .
Don't forget to say that you are writing on behalf of Guías Viajer!

Historian and philologist, Yonka She is a Bulgarian who studied a master of tourism in Barcelona, ​​and who subsequently has been working for 15 years for a Spanish agency organizing trips to Bulgaria in Spanish.

Yonka Bakardhieva at a flea market in Bulgaria
Yonka Bakardhieva at a flea market in Bulgaria

Nowadays Yonka manages its own agency to continue organizing these trips, but with a more personal touch, in addition to maintaining its collaboration with agencies in Spain and other countries.

Theme trips to Bulgaria

In this regard, Yonka has gained a reputation for organizing tailor-made themed trips, with a high satisfaction rate that makes it gain Spanish clients through word of mouth.

Speaking perfect Spanish, Yonka In his trips he always seeks to offer special experiences, also with a very good quality/price.

This is facilitated because the prices in Bulgaria Currently they represent almost half of the prices we are used to paying in Spain.

Plovdiv in Bulgaria
Plovdiv in Bulgaria

In this way, with Yonka you can make a trip tailored to your preferences through the most prominent tourist places in Bulgaria, and living special experiences,

Like, for example, eating in the refectory where the monks of an Orthodox monastery usually eat.

With Yonka you can take a trip heritage places such as Rila Orthodox Monastery, Heritage, or by pretty towns cataloged as protected architectural complexes.

La crafts and local customs figure prominently in travel.

Or also organize trips to practice the Hiking in the most notable corners of nature in Bulgaria, Like the Rila Lakes.

Design hotel in Plovdiv in Bulgaria
Design hotel in Plovdiv in Bulgaria

Yonka also organizes workshops of various themes, such as trips with an outstanding photographer who teaches you how to take photos, or trips to live spiritual experiences in places with energy.

His great knowledge of tourist and cultural attractions of Bulgaria They also allow you to lead author trips such as those organized by the agency Focus on Women.

On trips organized by Yonka you will always stay in quality hotels that have a special appeal, avoiding the large hotels frequented by tourist groups.

You will travel staying in 4-star hotels, small urban design hotels, such as Plovdiv, small charming rural hotels, as in Bansko.

That is, always accommodations that offer a special plus, such as the good panoramic views of the hotel Velico Tarnovo.

Viewpoint bar in Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria
Viewpoint bar in Veliko Tarnovo in Bulgaria

Furthermore, the chosen hotel will always be located in the very center of the city or town where you arrive, so that you can walk on your own to visit the most notable places.

On the other hand, at lunch or dinner time, as I have seen during my trip, the restaurant Where you are going to go will always have a special attractive, and it will never be a typical tourist restaurant.

A beautiful location with beautiful panoramic views, a typical restaurant with Bulgarian specialties, or a trendy restaurant popular with the local population of a city.

In this way you will know the most typical bulgarian breakfasts in which yogurt and cheese play a major role.

Or the most popular preparations of the gastronomy of each region in Bulgaria, always with the best suggestions on what to eat in each restaurant visited.

Typical liquid yogurt in Bulgaria
Typical liquid yogurt in Bulgaria

With a winter trip They will take you to snow-covered towns where the group will have their own dining room to enjoy a cozy stay with the warmth of a fireplace.

To sign up for a trip organized by Yonka It is not necessary to be a large group, but on the contrary, it specializes in trips for families, groups of friends or even couples.

When Yonka accompanies you as a guide, provides very personalized attention, and the Tourist guides The people your agency works with are very experienced and also speak Spanish perfectly.

Fly and Drive Trip to Bulgaria

Although all trips are designed to suit you, the option is also considered for you to have maximum autonomy during it.

Former refectory of the Bachkovo monastery in Bulgaria
Former refectory of the Bachkovo monastery in Bulgaria

With the formula Fly and Drive, based on your preferences, Yonka prepare a travel plan and an established route that you continue on your own in a rental car, with advice by telephone 24 hours a day.

To organize this travel plan, you will have a continuous exchange of information well in advance. mails with Yonka, so that it will know what your preferences are, and you can even have video chat to complete the details.

As a summary, after the experience from my recent trip to Bulgaria together with a small group of tourists, I can assure you that the level of satisfaction has been excellent on the part of all participants.

What's more, they have become new prescribers of Yonka to sign up for a trip to Bulgaria.

For more information about this, you can consult the Agency website and contact Yonka directly through the following email: tripsabulgaria@abv.bg

Have a nice trip to Bulgaria.

About the Author

José Luis Sarralde

Journalist and traveler throughout his life, José Luis Sarralde is the founder of Guías Viajar, where since 2008 he has been capturing his travel experiences around the world, specializing in cultural and scenic destinations in Spain and Europe.

Comments

Click here to write a comment

  • In 2014, a group of friends traveled with Yonka, I organized the trip myself and it is a wonderful destination for its places, its gastronomy, its hospitality, etc. So Yonka didn't have his own agency yet, but he made this trip one of the best I've organized with the small group we usually travel with. Advisable, without a doubt. Sure success and full satisfaction upon return. Walias.

  • I would love to know the country where my father was born...that's why my name is Sofia...because of its capital...that's what dad wanted...I made a lot of trips but never that far...(it would be a dream)...

  • I can confirm everything you say. A wonderful trip we took on July 17.
    Yonka is an excellent guide and excellent host for her country.

  • Really out of ten for this article. We are an adult couple and traveling to run after a flag or scarf makes us very uncomfortable.
    I will take this destination into account. Can anyone tell me if there is someone like this in Switzerland?
    .

Your language

Related articles