Rural Tourism
Bulgaria is a country of very big cultural heritage. The ancient Thracians, the Slavs and the proto – Bulgarians left behind many historical signs upon our lands. Evidence for that can be found everywhere. The varied countryside predetermined different kind of settlements and specific life-style; it influenced the spirit and the culture of the Bulgarians. That way the guests of Bulgaria will be surprised to find some big villages stretched out for kilometers with several thousand people or neighborhoods and houses built on the mountain slopes of the Balkans or the Rhodope Mountain. Each home will offer them different kind of hospitality of the householders; that way can be feel the daily round, the beauty of the working days and the holidays of the Bulgarians. Our guests experience a walk in the great wheat fields, trough the meadows with herds, from the forests with the herbs healing both the spirit and the body of the man and reach the rural fairs and wedding ceremonies or just the family evenings.
The comfort inside the rural houses is also different. But whether it would be under the vine in the rural yard, chatting with the hosts about the weather, or on the porch of the mountain house, our guests can feel the authenticity of the rural life.
They can take home the memories of the melodies and the thrills of the Bulgarian songs and will shudder to the memories of the fire dancers, dancing upon the glowing embers with an icon in their hands. This dance is a heritage from the past and is preserved only in the Stranja Mountain. Now-days it gathers thousands of people, eager to see the strength of the human will and faith.
In the present days there is a mixture between the modern technologies and the old way of live in the Bulgarian villages. Only here can be seen the strong hold between the Nature and the Humans, because the people learn how to cultivate the land, to live from its fruits, to love it and to praise it in their songs. Here is one of those places, where there’s no tourists or guests, but only members of one big family. A place where one can feel the real things – to have a glass of grape brandy (Rakia) with a fresh salad under the vine in the yard, to pick a red tomato or a bunch of grapes. The guests can take a ride on a donkey’s cart or give a hand with the milking of the sheep, cut the grass or feed the domestic animals.
The rural tourism is a real challenge for the modern society man, which is offering him a chance to escape from the intensive way of life in the big cities, from the stress and the noise. Only that way one can feel other dimensions of the human existence: the calmness and tranquility to be one with the nature – a place where the time stops.
In the Bulgarian village can be seen the national culture, the lifestyle, nothing to do with the way of life in the big city.
The rural tourism is less tourism and more the return of the man to its slightly forgotten roots.
