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RECREATIONAL FISHING
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ALTERNATIVE TOURISM
Potential for alternative tourism
Kavarna municipality has sufficient potential for the development of both marine recreation tourism and a variety of alternative forms. The diverse and rich natural and cultural heritage makes it an attractive place for tourists. The product offered is characterized by a wide price range and market segments, although Russian and Bulgarian tourist prevail.
The sea area - Kavarna, Ikantlaka Area and Rusalka Holiday Village has formed around many different departmental holiday homes, family hotels and camping places. Stays of holidaymakers are concentrated in summer, which outlines the seasonal orientation of supply. A significant shortcoming is the lack of sufficient additional services.
Rusalka Holiday Village is oriented to club marine recreational tourism. However, its location 20 km east of the town of Kavarna near Birds Bay Nature Reserve and Kaliakra Cape makes it a potential starting point for cognitive, eco-tourist and cultural routes. Of course, lovers of water sports can find many opportunities in the village to practice yachting in the yacht club with sailing yachts and kayaks, diving (there is a center for diving), riding a pedalo, windsurfing and other water attractions.
The villages of Balgarevo and Kamen Bryag provide conditions for rural tourism. Visitors heading to Kaliakra Cape can visit the village of Balgarevo on their way. The village is well-developed, with lovely flower and vegetable gardens. The local people are friendly and hospitable. Several family hotels operate. Tourists are offered local produce such as fresh fruits and vegetables: peppers, tomatoes, watermelon cut off from the garden, and bee products and mussels. Not far from the village, tourists can visit one of the three mussel production farms in Bulgaria. After long years of operation its owners have created conditions for the convenience of tourists and a variety of delicacies. A major cultural site in Balgarevo, which is located in Dalboka Area, is St. Peter and Paul Church, built along with the village school by one of the greatest Bulgarian masters Usta Bozhko from Zagore, disciple of Kolyu Ficheto. From 2003, due to the interest to it, religious trips and camps for children are organized.
Every summer the village of Kamen Bryag and its rocky beach shelter worshippers of pristine natural beauty flocking here to welcome the first July sunrise[1]. In fact, the village offers a unique combination of natural beauty, timeless Bulgarian lifestyle and cultural monuments. Its more than one hundred houses offer the comfort and cleanliness of the typical Bulgarian rural house, but in combination with sea views and fresh air.
In Kamen Bryag you can practice fishing, underwater sports and rock climbing. Hereby are situated Yailata Reserve and Ogancheto Area, where a flame is still coming from an old abandoned natural gas well. You can visit “St. Constantine and Helena” Church, which was built in 2004 and has unique gypsum and ceramic icons made by the painter Atanas Gadzhev. In the village there is an information center providing information to tourists.
Rural tourism can also be developed in the village of Topola, located 8 km from the town of Kavarna. It is extremely popular among lovers of tents and entertainment under the open sky. Near the village there are deposits of mineral water and medicinal clay. Training diving courses are offered to both adults and children in Kaliakra Resort (http://kaliakria.com), which is located nearby.
The resource potential actually attracts investor interest to the village both for the construction of spa hotels and complexes and for the construction of golf complex.
The development of cultural tourism in the region of Kavarna is largely preconditioned by the rich cultural heritage exhibited in the Historical Museum in the town of Kavarna, Dobrudzha and the Sea exposition, Ethnographic Museum, Art Gallery, Kaliakra Cape and Chirakman Cape. In the city park you can visit the bone-vault, which was restored in 2005 and is a memorial to the Russian soldiers who died at the liberation of Kavarna (1877) during the Russian-Turkish War of Liberation.
Kavarna municipality has also the potential to develop cognitive tourism. The main magnets on its territory are Kaliakra Cape, Chirakman Cape, Yailata, Birds Bay (Taukliman), Bolata. The first two provide excellent opportunities for combinations of cultural and ecotourism, with practicing recreational, extreme and sport tourism, varieties of yacht tourism, parachuting, paragliding, etc. Moreover, dolphins or Aristotelian cormorants nesting in the area can be watched from the costal cliffs. As for the other three, they can definitely be associated with ornithological tourism. Yailata was described in detail above. The other two – Bolata and Taukliman (Birds Bay) are small wetlands, in which interesting waterfowls nest. Bird lovers can observe in these places: little bittern, herons, common kingfishers, diving ducks Aythya, little grebe, ducks, owl and long-legged buzzard. In the spring, during migration, bird diversity increase to over 150 species.
A place that should be mentioned in connection with the practice of recreational, sport and extreme tourism is Ikantlaka Area. The resort area is located 5 km from the town of Kavarna towards Balchik. With a narrow beach sheltered by high cliffs, Ikantlaka is particularly picturesque. Conditions for surfing and paragliding, as well as for the exercise of other water sports are excellent. There are grounds for volleyball and basketball. Ikantlaka is also among the favorite places of ornithologists – amateurs and professionals. It is an attractive place to many of them who come here to watch and photograph birds and their special rituals.
The Black Sea Coast, in particular the region of Kavarna and Balchik has become the subject of increased interest over the last years on the part of investors in golf tourism. Of the eight gold courses functioning in Bulgaria (certified by Professional Golf Association), three of them are located in the specified territory: Black Sea Rama, Thracian Cliff and Lighthouse.
Black Sea Rama is the first Bulgarian resort that has a professional golf course with 18 holes and a unique view to the sea. Designed by the legendary gold player Gary Player, the course covers an area of 1 046 813 square meters. There is a mineral spring on its territory, which is a prerequisite for future combination of golf with SPA tourism.
Thracian Cliffs is another golf course, again with 18 holes. Its designer is again Gary Player and the holes are Signature class.
Lighthouse Golf & Spa Resort is a golf resort offering a course of Links type. It is designed by Ian Woosnam and has 18 holes, suitable for both professionals and beginners. In the gold complete there is also SPA Center, casino, restaurants, and piano bar. Kavarna municipality is also famous for events of the festival and event tourism. The site of the municipality provides detailed information about each event, promptly notifying the specific dates of conduct of the event - http://kavarna.bg/index.php?do=43&lang=bg.
The most important among them are:
Sport lovers can practice bicycle tourism in the region of Kavarna. The following routes are established: Kavarna – Krapets – Durankulak Lake; Kavarna – Taukliman; Kavarna – Dalboka – Balgarevo – Bolata; Kavarna – Tyulenovo – Kamen Bryag – Kaliakra[3]. A convenient and secure way to rent a bike is offered by the following websites: http://www.motoroads.com/bulgaria/bicycle-rentals-kavarna-cycle-hire-bulgaria.aspx, http://bg.motorcycle-rental-europe.com/kavarna-bicycle-rental, as well as hotels in the area.
Fishing tourism can be practiced in the whole municipality. In many places (for example in Tyulenovo and White Lagoon) night fishing is offered to lovers of adventures. They can fish goby, leaping mullet, mackerel and golden-grey mullet (Mugil auratus). There are also conditions for hunting tourism near the village of Balgarevo, where there is a mouflon farm.
There is insufficiently used potential for speleological tourism in the region of Bolata, Yailata and Kaliakra Cape. According to experts, many of the caves are insufficiently studied, but can be easily adapted for tourists as a tourist attraction with minor modifications. There is a two-floor cave restaurant in one of the caves at Cape Kaliakra. It can be reached easily by following one of the pathways starting from the stronghold. Following the second pathway leads to a second smaller cave, which is a museum exhibiting valuable archeological finds. It is in it that those who pursue seals of the Bulgarian Tourist Union can obtain such[4].
In Dalboka Mussel Farm the guests of Kavarna can enjoy dishes prepared from organic products such as: mussel skewers with coconut, mussel soup, grilled turbot, mussels nature with lovage, mussels with apple filing and cream.
[1]http://kamenbryag.info/. [2]Within this event, Kavarna Black Sea Battle of the Bands is held – a music battle of young rock bands from Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. [3]For additional and more detailed information, refer to: http://www.bulgariainside.com. [4] Working hours: 10:00-19:00, every day. |
