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FAMILY WILDLIFE HOLIDAY IN BULGARIA
GO WILD IN THE RODOPI (RHODOPE) MOUNTAINS!

Holiday Profile

Holiday Highlights

  • Enjoy beautiful unspoilt rural countryside.
  • Participate in traditional rural life in peaceful mountain villages.
  • Participate in pond-dipping, bug-hunts and wildlife walks.
  • Explore exciting caves and gorges.
  • Try traditional dancing, cookery, arts and crafts.
  • Experience the hospitality and delicious child-friendly cuisine of cosy family run hotels.

The Rodopi are the most extensive mountain range in Bulgaria; a hauntingly beautiful and mysterious region, where the way of life seems to have changed little over the last few hundred years. Peaceful and unspoiled, the Rodopi are also internationally renowned for their exceptional biodiversity, making them a perfect destination for any budding young naturalists keen on roaming the mountains in search of butterflies and bugs, lizards and frogs, or bats and birds.

This trip offers children and families the chance to 'go wild' with a whole series of nature-focused activities amidst the Rodopi's meadows, pastures, forests, streams and caves. As well as pond-dipping, bug-hunts and wildlife walks, you'll will also be able to experience local rural life, having the opportunity to take part in traditional dancing, cookery and arts and crafts. Other highlights include an exciting narrow-gauge train ride and a chance to follow in the footsteps of Orpheus and Eurydice when you enter the dramatic 'Devil's Throat Cave'.

Balkan Trek is at the forefront of responsible tourism in Bulgaria, and recognised as one of Bulgaria's leading mountain adventure and eco-tourism operators. We are specialists in small group walking holidays, trekking holidays, snowshoeing treks, cultural tours, monastery tours, village holidays, wildlife holidays, natural history trips, birdwatching holidays, butterfly holidays, botanic tours and photography holidays. We operate trips in Bulgaria's Rhodope (Rodopi) Mountains, Rila Mountains, Pirin Mountains, Stara Planina (Balkan Mountains), Strandzha Mountains, Sredna Gora Mountains, Vitosha Mountains, as well as at the Black Sea.