For keen fans of ecotourism Western Rhodopes region offers interesting encounters with wildlife – a special tourist infrastructure for observation in their natural habitat of bears, grouse, wild goats, eagles, otters and others is built.
Here you can merge with nature and to capture the most amazing photos, with which you can boast for a lifetime! You will have the opportunity to explore the Western Rhodopes – wondrous and wild!
Here you can entertain your children with educational tours to the Brown Bear’s cave and the Brown Bear’s museum, to take them on a trip for wildlife observation, and optional – boating on the Tsankov Kamak dam or Dospat lake, and also to take them on a trip to the newest protected area in the region – Valley of Devin River on a specially constructed trail Struilitsa-Kaleto-Lakata.
It is worth visiting the unique ramp Eagle Eye from which a spectacular view towardz Buynovo Gorge is revealed.
The rare birds inhabiting the region provide exceptional experiences for lovers – ornithologists. Here one can see the golden eagle, falcon, peregrine falcon, lesser kestrel, corncrake, capercaillie, hazel, gray and black woodpecker and others. A special path of type Via Ferrata is built in Trigrad Gorge to offer monitoring of rare species and birds. In June in the protected area Kastrakli a superb variety of butterflies can be seen. If you love horses and want to ride, equestrian centers in the region will offer you a horse riding.
