Private Day Tour to Melnik from Sofia

Private Day Tour to Melnik from Sofia

This is a Private Tour so you will not be combined with other people besides those in your reservation- there will be a private car and a private driver- guide just for you!
With this tour you will see Kordopulova house, St. Antonius church, hike through the Melnik pyramids, see Rozhen monastery iconostas and frescoes and taste the traditional Bulgarian Banitza in a village house.
The tour starts at 9.00 from the hotel that you are staying in Sofia. Your first stop which will be Melnik. The smallest town in Bulgaria, Melnik, is nested in the south slopes of Pirin, among sand pyramids with queer forms.
After a stop for lunch in a typical Bulgarian restaurant you will star the hiking tour to Rozhen monastery. It is the largest Orthodox monastery in the Pirin region. The monastery is comparatively well preserved and every year it is visited by many tourists from various countries.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Melnik, Melnik, Blagoevgrad Province

The smallest Bulgarian town rests amidst gently rounded hills covered with vineyards and orchards and rising and falling, as if moved by an invisible hand, to form incredible precipices and pyramids which look like the Colorado Grand Canyon. Melnik seems to be an exception of the law of nature and men, nestled in a valley, which is never touched by the wind. This town is a vision, a presentiment of great calmness and perfect beauty; from a distance it looks like a picture of the applique technique with a hundred or so houses with balconies which seem to have perched on the five fingers of a human hand, surrounded by the magnificence of sandstone and the stillness of rocks that are troubled by the blossoming white and blue lilac trees, broad leaves of fig trees and the fragrance of greenery and spring.

Duration: 3 hours 20 minutes

Stop At: Rozhen Monastery, Rozhen, Melnik 2820 Bulgaria

Most explorers believe that Melnik derives from the Slav “mel” meaning white clay, chalk. No wonder as the giant pyramids chiseled by a titanic sculptor, nature, are in the proximity. The pyramids lie on an area of 80 hectares; those near the village of Karlanovo are particularly queer. Water, wind, heat and cold have chiseled most incredible figures in the course of centuries. Basking in the sun the pyramids change color and all the nuances of pink, yellow and lilac. The figures are miraculous at dusk, producing the impression of insurmountable walls around a castle.

Duration: 2 hours