The International Rose Festival in Bulgaria is very well known all over the world. Many journalists and TV teams from CNN, South Korea, Japan, Scandinavian countries cover this event. Since 1903,the beginning, this picturesque and beautiful festival has been developing as one of the most popular and very well organized happening on the Balkan Peninsula. Among the roses, folklore songs and dances, you will breathe the atmosphere of the happiness and traditions of the people around.

• 1 June. Meeting at the airport. Lunch. Sightseeing of Sofia – Alexander   Nevsky Cathedral, St. Sofia church, St. Nicolas church, Ivan Vazov Theatre, St. Nedelia Square. Check- in at the hotel. Dinner.
• 2 June. Breakfast. Lunch in a restaurant in the town of Plovdiv. Transfer to the town of Kazanluk, the center of Rose Valley. A ritual at the meeting of the guests. Check-in at the hotel.Coffee-concert of a classical chamber music.Official dinner with an attractive folklore program. Opening of the Rose Festival.
• 3 June.  Breakfast. Visit of the Kazanluk Thracian Tomb (in the UNESCO list  of the World Heritage).In the guests’ presence will be processed the  rose distillation; tasting of rose brandy, rose liqueur, rose jam. A visit of the Museum of roses. Lunch- barbecue, folklore program ”Bulgarian traditions and customs”  with the participation of the tourists in the dances, souvenirs. Concert with church-Slavonic songs in the Temple-monument “Shipka”.  A festive dinner.
• 4 June. Breakfast. Rose gathering in the rose gardens next to the town. Tasting of ethereal oils, visit of an active distillery and of a glasshouse for planting oil-yielding rose at the Institute of    roses. A carnival parade along the festive decorated streets of the town. Lunch with folklore program. Transfer to the town of Veliko Turnovo. Check-in at the hotel. Free  time.Dinner at the hotel.
• 5 June.  Breakfast. Seightseeing of Veliko Turnovo-Tsarevets palace on the  hill and Arbanassi with a visit of an old architectural style and intereior of a house and St.Virgin church. Lunch in this old town. Transfer to Romania – Bucharest.

        Romania
 

• Day 1. Arrival at Bucharest. Chek-in at the hotel. Dinner.
• Day 2.Breakfast. Sightseeing – Palace of  Parliament and the Village  Museum. Lunch. Departure to Sibiu. Arrival in Sibiu. Check-in. Dinner
• Day 3.Breakfast.Sightseeing: historic center of Sibiu - Baroque Brukenth  Palace, 3 different religious churches, Saxon Gymnazium,Lutheraln Theological Institute,Passage of Stairs, Lier’s bridge. Lunch. Visit of Siighisoara - one of the oldest towns in Europe. Departure to Brasov. Arrival and chek-in. Dinner.
• Day 4.Breakfast.Sightseeing  of old Brasov.Lunch. Drive on to Bran Castle, legendary residence of Count Dracula; Visits to Peles Royal castle, Sinaya monastery. Departure to Bucharest’s airport.

Price:
Bulgaria : on request!
- it is valid for 15 participants and 1 free of charge;
- 4 nights/5 days ;1st day – no breakfast;5th day – no dinner; 3 days full board;
- English speaking guide; entrance fees;
- A/C   40-seater  bus.

Romania: on request!
-  it is valid for 15 participants and 1 free of charge;
- 4 nights/5 days ;1st day – no breakfast;5th day – no dinner; 3 days full board;
- English speaking guide; entrance fees;
- A/C   40-seater  bus.