Sozopol to Burgas Day 4 Exploring the Bulgarian Riviera
We're two retirees hooked on travel. Follow us on our journeys around the world our! Our last video we entered in Sozopol and we're starting here at the north side of Sozopol. We're going to head north and at the first stop that we're going to check out, is a beach. We're taking the old road north. The old road is a very narrow road. We just arrived, and we're north of Sozopol. It's a huge beach and they have a lot
of parking. We parked out on the street not knowing there was parking back in here next to the beach. They do charge for parking out here. It's five five lev for parking which is about two dollars and fifty cents u.s dollars to park . We didn't know but we're here for just a short time anyway. This is our first time here. Ee've never been here. Wow it's huge! It's about noon and it's already packed it's between Sozopol and Charnomoritz. A lot of the locals come here for camping. A lot of the Bulgarians come here for camping.
Wow, there are a lot of restaurants here. Geez, it's not crowded. If I had to choose between Sunny Beach and here, well that's kind of a no-brainer. This is beautiful! Look at this restaurant! I love it!
To my right is Sozopol. The old town is over on the end of the peninsula. Gosh, the water is crystal clear! The beach runs the entire way! They have mattresses here for the day beds, which look really comfortable and look at this little sitting area. I want to come here and spend the day. The water is so clear and warm. They have this set up really comfortable with a restaurant a bar you can get your lunch kick back get a tan listen to some good music! A new Hawaiian barbecue. I wonder if they know anything about Hawaiian food? They have a great white shark.
Want to check out the menu? Oh, it is like Hawaiian. They have chicken pokey, shrimp pokey, tuna salmon, terriyaki pokey, quinoa, it's really healthy food. Shrimp rolls they have an Hawaiian classic burger and hawaiian burger and a kahlua pork sandwich. Kahlua pork sandwich. If you want to come down to this beach anywhere between Sozopol and Chernarmoritz take the old road and then there's turnoffs all along the way and then you just come in.
For the whole day they're charging two dollars and fifty cents for parking or if you get here early, you can park out on the street for free. There's a whole lot of different entrances. Just drive north along the old road and pull off and discover what's at that particular spot. We didn't walk up the beach but it looks like there's services all along the entire beach. They're signage so you can look at the signs they're advertising, what restaurants are at that particular spot but then once you go in there's tons of seating and umbrellas. Like there's another turnoff up there. They're all over the place. There's a whole bunch of campsites here and little cabanas that people have built. Wow!
They look new. Everything is packed and full. Those are nice! Grandia camping. Como del mar. Oh this place is loaded with camp spots. They have a lot of those cabanas, they're cute! They probably have open ceilings kind of a slanted roof. Welcome to Dream Beach Gradina Camping, and that's looks like where you check in and they have parking! That's the entrance. Oh this campsite looks fairly new and on our left there's probably the original hotels. They look very old and dated.
We're starting to get closer to chairnomoritz. It used to be a village and it's grown up quite a bit over the past few years. Looks like they're building a brand new hotel here.
That's Chernomoritz over there. Jeez nice homes. Okay, right over there, to our left, is the main road. They just built this house. It's upside down. It's quite clever. We're not sure exactly why they did
it but it's a tourist attraction and everything inside the house is upside down. It's really quite clever. See the car, the door is upside down. You can see the deck, the porch upstairs is glued to the ceiling, it's upside down. Wow super cute and it looks like they have a nice coffee shop, they have a swimming pool too! We're just entering the village of chernomoritz. this used to be a farming and fishing village and there's a lot of residential areas here now. People come and spend the summer here. Here you can go to Sunny Island, Flores Garden, Atiyah Resort and Marina Hill.
Hotel Chernomoritz. There's a grill and it looks like a popular one. People are out there waiting. This is a new development with small hotel vacation rentals. They have another beach on the other side of town. Driving in Bulgaria and these towns and all of the villages, they're two lanes, but they use one lane to park. They just pull off and have a coffee or buy something and make it into one lane. It's
normal practice. It kind of gets frustrating but, that's the way it is. We're not used to that! Okay, we're approaching the sea. Some more new developments. There is a lot of new developments going on in this country. Look at this Sunny Island Deluxe! Beautiful! What you can do here, is you can buy your own condo.
You can rent them but they're for sale and probably people buy them and then they rent them out or just use them one week a year or whatever, but that's what they are. They are condos. Real estate prices for studio apartments go for 30,000 to 50, 000 euros. One bedroom is approximately 65 to 95,000 euros. Two bedrooms are around 150,000 euros. Or you can splurge on a four-story villa for around 500, 000 euros. Everything is unfinished with bare walls
which allows you to custom fit it the way you want too. Materials and construction services are about a third to even up to a half the price of what you might pay in the United States. That's all new. There's old and new. It looks like they're building on the waterfront, new stuff, so maybe they can knock down old buildings to build new developments along the beach.
It looks to me like it's just mostly residential. People have their grapes growing, their gardens in their backyards, their laundry hanging out. You get off the main road and it's quiet. It looks like an abandoned house but gee it looks like it was really big and they had some nice plans for it. Amazing. I can't figure out why people start things and then they quit. It's kind of nice once you get away from all the people. Nice little neighborhood restaurants. We parked the car and the only way that you can get down to the beach here is on these stairs. There's a private access right over here to my right , but
it's for private residences or club members, i'm not sure. it's private you can't get in. Saint Tropez 2254 kilometers. Mykonos, 1, 330 kilometers. Oh it's a little less here. Achair and umbrella is 14 lev which is about seven US dollars. Oh, you can get a gazebo, you can get a gazebo for 60 lev for the day. We'll go find out what they look like. Wow! It's a small beach and it's rocky.
It's nice though! Wow! Beautiful , really nice! Those are the gazebos you could probably get. They're calling them gazebos but they're day beds. You can have a fire at night! You come down here to the beach at night and have a drink by the fire! They have a bonfire here at night! Wow, this is perfect for kids because it looks like it's shallow for a long ways out and they have it roped off so you can't have jet skis come flying in here. In the distance, over there, where Zarko's pointing, is Sozopol, where we were in our last video. We drove by a beach that goes right along there.
This is chernomoritz. Look at those nice homes up there right on the water. They look new and contemporary. It looks like on the end, there's a fixer-upper. You could probably tear it down and put in a new nice place.Oh, this is nice! I like it and the day beds look like you get some shade too and they're big. Oh, they have a spa here and they're booking massages. Oh, this is one of those electric jet skis. Electric surfboard.
Electric surfboard. Zarko wants to get one but they're kind of expensive. If you're going to come to the beach and spend the day, I think this is my style, my style! It's quiet and you have these cute day beds. It's more private, comfortable, you're
not going to get too hot and they have cute umbrellas. They are nice too. They don't flap in the wind. You get shade from those. Are you from Bali? Yeah. Wow! We'll be back! Thank you. The woman that's doing the massages was from Bali and she gave me a handout. She said that up above, there's another spa resort area and they do the Hammom, Turkish type of baths and massages there too. Really nice place! Wow, we're coming back here to spend the day. It's a village with a city population, two months out of the year.
The rest of the time, it's quiet, hardly anyone here. We just left chernomoritz, and we're heading north. We've seen some campgrounds along the main highway and this is the only way that you can get to it.So we're gonna make our way up there and find out what's going on. Over there, we've seen those campers parked there every summer for the last couple years, but we never made our way over there. This road looks like it's totally wasted!They haven't touched it
in years. It's the only way you can get over to there to that campsite. Okay, and here you see people. This is kind of primitive camping! Actually tents, with campers tents. It's free here, so that's probably why they're setting up tents. Interesting! If you're on a budget or maybe backpacking, you might want to check out this area. The water looks really calm down there and it's shallow a long ways out. I see people way out there. If you want to come and pitch a tent and set up camp for free, this is the place to come. They
have a nice beach. Right there it's private. Look at this road. There's the main highway right there. I don't know who's maintaining the porta potties but there's all kinds of tents. There's campers. Oh yeah, they have to use the porta potties and they probably bathe in the sea. Oh, there it is. It's big! There's a primitive tent. They have a solar system. Resort and spa.
Okay, here it is. It's Chankety Resort and Spa. Where's the spa? Chantey Resort and Spa. Wow! It's packed! Yeah well that's for some on a budget. I know some of these people, they get these trailers and they travel across Europe. Now this one goes way back in there. It looks like a field a farmer had it or maybe had some property and just opened it up to the campers. We're finally making it out of this road from the campsite area and we're going to be going by the naval base. It is called Atiyah, Burgus Naval Base. Zarko actually was stationed there when he was growing up.
Our next stop is Oatmanly. We're going to Park Rosanetz. Over here is fisherman's village. There's a new harbor and a small beach and also a small playground for kids and a few restaurants.
So just across from Burgas, is this area owned by Luke Oil, which is an oil company. It is stationed here in Bulgaria and this is where the tankers come in and offload their crude oil. From here it's piped to the refinery that's located just outside the outskirts of burgus where it's refined and the gas is then, the petrol is then, sold all over Bulgaria. We're entering Krymorie, this is a suburb of burgas. A lot of people live here and they commute to work in Burgas.
Nice church! A lot of apartment complexes, small apartments, vacation rentals. There it looks like a nice beach, a parking lot. A nice big parking lot. Wow! It's a really nice brand new contemporary home facing the sea. Really nice! There's a lot of new development going here. Hey, if you don't want to live in a city, a big city like Burgas, this is just outside of Burgas. You can kind of see where we're located. We were just over there by Luke Oil.
You can see Burgas across, and at the entrance of the harbor and the port. It's warm today and everybody's enjoying the warm sea. It's protected here it's not too too windy and it's not rough and it's shallow on a long ways out too. So people are way out there and it's shallow so it's great for kids. I love this home. Geez, somebody's got quite a project. It's huge. I don't know if it's a home or a compound or a resort. It's really nice. I think it's a home. Wow, these are single family homes and it looks like they're brand new and they're still building them and they're for sale. Now here it looks like a huge duplex or a house.
That's a nice place! Wow. I think it's someone's home. That looks like a home going in right there and that looks like a brand new hotel. Not even open yet. Probably next year. Really nice! Krymorie. Looks like a nice place to live and you're just 10 minutes from downtown Burgas. That person has a really nice, really nice garden. Just growing everything. For sale! So you can be in a nice new home right next to a corn field and right next to a beach. If you want the country feel, the beach, there you go, this is Kymorie.
It's Friday and a lot of people are here. Bulgaria, the majority of them are from Bulgaria. I think it's an area that not that many people know about, at least if you don't live here. People that come here to Bulgaria the first time, they book a resort and stay in a hotel. There is a lot more choices, a lot of nice beaches, you can stay in apartments.You don't necessarily have to be in an all-inclusive! Try out some of these nice restaurants. We're approaching Burgas city. Our next video we will be starting there. If you're interested,
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