What do we know about Bulgaria? The knowledge of the average Russian about this country, perhaps, is limited to Bulgarian cigarettes, brandy and beaches. Indeed, it is the wine and tobacco industry, as well as tourism, that are the main sources of income for this country! This is the main thing that Bulgaria is famous for. And, wines and brandy, cigarettes and cigars, golden sands of beautiful beaches Bulgaria has been famous for many centuries!

 Sun and sea in Bulgaria
 Sun and sea in Bulgaria
Panorama of the beach of Ravda

Bulgaria is a small country, its territory is a little more than island Iceland . But, despite its small size, the landscape of this country is very diverse . It is - and lowlands, and plains and mountains - like low and high . In Bulgaria, in addition, there are many valleys, ravines, plateaus . There are three mountain systems here - Rila, Pirin and the Rhodope Mountains . Many in Bulgaria and rivers . With a total stretch nnosti boundaries 2264 km river border of the country has a little less than 700 kilometers! Well, the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria is not much, not a little 400 kilometers .

Thanks to the warm climate and the presence of hundreds of well-maintained beaches, Bulgaria is rightly considered one of the European health resorts. Therefore, the rest on the beaches of Bulgaria is annually chosen by millions of Europeans. Most of the tourists who come to rest in this country are citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Great Britain, Germany and Scandinavian countries. Incredibly, but the fact: despite the fact that the population of this country is about seven and a half million people, annually 8-9 million tourists visit Bulgaria!

Even in the second half of the twentieth century, Bulgaria was considered one of the most important resorts of the Warsaw Pact countries. Yes, at a turning point in the 1990s, the tourism industry in Bulgaria experienced a decline, but with the beginning of the twenty-first century it again began to dominate, leading the country to the first beach tourism destination in Europe.

Vacation in Bulgaria all year round .In winter, winter sports enthusiasts come here, to whose services - a large number of well-known ski resorts, well, and in the warm season millions of people go to the famous Black Sea resorts of Bulgaria..Such, for example, as Albena, Elenite, Golden Sands, Sunny Beach, Sv .Konstantin and Elena .Only two months a year, October and November, are considered in Bulgaria as non-tourist .Already in March, here spring reigns, trees bloom, well, and in the sea in Bulgaria they bathe from June to September .Two months break - and in December the ski season begins, lasting until the beginning of spring .

What are the Bulgarian resorts? Take, for example, the most famous of them - Golden Sands. This is a climatic resort area on the Black Sea coast. On Golden Sands is the best fine sandy beach on the whole coast of the Black Sea. There is a mild climate, a moderate solar ultraviolet, salt water and microelements, and also excellent therapeutic mud. Not inferior to the famous Golden Sands and other Bulgarian resorts.