Bulgaria offers all the necessary conditions for an untraditional rural vacation - old Bulgarian capitals, monasteries and museum towns, Thracian treasures and icon-painting, dozens of picturesque large and small settlements, fine old homes with rural environment and traditional lifestyle, adjoining yards with domestic animals and gardens, ecologically clean regions and pastoral landscape, well-organized welcome and services for guests with typical Bulgarian hospitality, traditional cuisine, and above all - a unique blend of natural scenery with history, folklore, national arts and crafts, colorful festivals and customs.

Rules for incoming non residents

Bulgaria to change rules for incoming non-residents. Incoming non-EU citizens will be required to state the purpose of their visit and to name a local address where they will be staying under the new changes to the Foreigners in Bulgaria Act oked on Wed, July 20, by the standing parliamentary committee on legal affairs. The changes, yet to be approved conclusively by the MPs, supplant the current requirement that foreigners notify to the Bulgarian authorities their address of residence within 5 days of entering the country.