{"id":598324,"date":"2026-06-09T18:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/story\/598324\/roundtrip-bulgaria-opens-bookings-for-its-7day-bulgaria-tour-departing-18-october-2026.html"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:45:28","slug":"roundtrip-bulgaria-opens-bookings-for-its-7day-bulgaria-tour-departing-18-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/story\/598324\/roundtrip-bulgaria-opens-bookings-for-its-7day-bulgaria-tour-departing-18-october-2026.html","title":{"rendered":"Roundtrip Bulgaria Opens Bookings for Its 7-Day Bulgaria Tour Departing 18 October 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;width:250px;padding:8px 10px 10px 10px\">\n<div><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/upload\/2026\/06\/1781019124.jpg\" style=\"border:none !important\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"Roundtrip Bulgaria Opens Bookings for Its 7-Day Bulgaria Tour Departing 18 October 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/upload\/2026\/06\/1781019124.jpg\" alt=\"Roundtrip Bulgaria Opens Bookings for Its 7-Day Bulgaria Tour Departing 18 October 2026\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" style=\"padding:0px 0px 10px 10px;border:0 solid !important\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"quotes\">\n<div>Buzludzha &#8211; Bulgaria<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style:italic;padding:8px 0px\">A compact, small-group autumn journey across 1,000 km of Bulgaria &#8211; from Sofia and Plovdiv to UNESCO-listed Rila Monastery &#8211; is now open for bookings to travellers worldwide<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>SOFIA, Bulgaria &#8211; Jun 9, 2026 &#8211;<\/strong> Roundtrip Bulgaria has opened bookings for a fixed-date departure of its 7-day <strong>Bulgaria Tour on 18 October 2026<\/strong>, an autumn small-group journey designed to connect the country&#8217;s landmarks into a single story rather than a string of scattered stops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Priced at &euro;1,190 per person and limited to a small group of no more than 12 travellers, the week-long Bulgaria Tour follows a route of roughly 1,000 kilometres that links the capital, the country&#8217;s ancient cities, its mountain monasteries, and the wine valleys in between. Mid-October places travellers in the shoulder season, with cooler air, autumn colour across the Rila and Balkan ranges, and far thinner crowds than the summer peak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The route weaves together the highlights that define the country:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>Sofia<\/strong>, where a single city-centre square holds a 4th-century Roman rotunda, an Ottoman mosque, a Soviet-era landmark, and the gold-domed Alexander Nevsky Cathedral within a two-minute walk.\n<\/li>\n<li>Plovdiv, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe &#8211; older than Athens or Rome &#8211; with Thracian, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, and Bulgarian Revival layers still in daily use across its seven hills.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rila Monastery<\/strong>, the largest and most revered Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, set 1,150 metres up in a forested mountain valley.\n<\/li>\n<li>Veliko Tarnovo, the dramatic former capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire, where houses stack up the slopes above the Yantra River beneath the Tsarevets fortress.\n<\/li>\n<li>The Thracian Valley wineries and the wooden Revival-era houses of villages such as Koprivshtitsa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Compact enough to experience in a single week yet layered enough to reward a slower pace, Bulgaria remains one of Europe&#8217;s most underrated destinations &#8211; rich in history, mountains, monasteries, cuisine, and Black Sea coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Roundtrip Bulgaria has specialised in guided small-group <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/roundtripbulgaria.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bulgaria Tours<\/a> since 2005, with more than 21 years of experience and over 10,000 travellers hosted. The company runs fixed, guaranteed departures with small groups and no hidden taxes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Tour at a glance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Tour: 7-day small-group Bulgaria Tour<\/li>\n<li>Featured departure: 18 October 2026 (open for bookings)<\/li>\n<li>Price: &euro;1,190 per person<\/li>\n<li>Group size: maximum 12 travellers<\/li>\n<li>Route: approximately 1,000 km, including Sofia, Plovdiv, Rila Monastery and Veliko Tarnovo<\/li>\n<li>Departures: fixed, guaranteed dates with no hidden taxes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Full itinerary and booking: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/roundtripbulgaria.com\/\">https:\/\/roundtripbulgaria.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>About Roundtrip Bulgaria<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Roundtrip Bulgaria is a specialist operator running guided small-group Bulgaria Tours with fixed departure dates. Operating since 2005, with more than 21 years of experience and over 10,000 travellers hosted, the company designs compact, well-paced routes that connect the country&#8217;s cities, monasteries, mountains, and wine regions, with small groups capped at 12 and no hidden taxes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caps\"><span style='font-size:18px !important'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/roundtripbulgaria.com_190518.html\">Roundtrip Bulgaria<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Elena Georgieva<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=roundtrip-bulgaria-opens-bookings-for-its-7day-bulgaria-tour-departing-18-october-2026\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>City:<\/strong> Sofia<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> Bulgaria<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/roundtripbulgaria.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/roundtripbulgaria.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=roundtrip-bulgaria-opens-bookings-for-its-7day-bulgaria-tour-departing-18-october-2026\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzludzha &#8211; Bulgaria A compact, small-group autumn journey across 1,000 km of Bulgaria &#8211; from Sofia and Plovdiv to UNESCO-listed Rila Monastery &#8211; is now open for bookings to travellers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennsylvania-magazine.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}