The Itinerary Bulgaria itineraries
Day-by-day routes through Bulgaria, each 8 days — with what every trip actually costs.
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Planning a trip to Bulgaria
Pulled from the route below — so it says what it does, not what a brochure would.
When to go
May–Jun, Sep–Oct — the months this route recommends.
How long you need
Every route here runs 8 days.
What it costs
≈ AED 300 per person per day. Beds, food, getting around and things to do — costed line by line in each guide, not estimated from a daily rate.
Entry on an Indian passport
Embassy or consulate in advance, 90 days in any 180. Schengen. Checked 2026-11 against Wikipedia’s compilation of IATA Timatic entries. Entry rules depend on your passport and where you live, and they change with little notice — confirm with the embassy or your airline before you book. Check another country.
Where these routes go: Sofia · Rila · Plovdiv · Veliko Tarnovo.
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Best for: Old towns + monasteries
Bulgaria in 8 days: Sofia, Plovdiv and the Rila mountains
Sofia → Rila → Plovdiv → Veliko Tarnovo
One of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited cities, a monastery of painted arcades under 2,900-metre peaks, and a medieval capital stacked on a river gorge — with the Cyrillic that was invented here, the head-shake that means the opposite of what you think, and prices that are the lowest in the EU.
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