We are going to rest in Kranevo with a child

The Kranevo-Bargsky village is 15 kilometers from Balchik and 23 kilometers from Varna, between Albena and the resort of Sv. Bonstantina and Elena. The villages are small, the population barely exceeds a thousand people, but in season this quantity grows at times due to tourists. By the way, it is quite suitable for holidays with children. . And that's why:

- clean golden beach 6 kilometers long and calm sea. The bottom on the spa coast is very clean, without algae (well, it happens, like everywhere) and stones.

- low prices for accommodation and food in cafe and restaurants (very low, right low!)

-restaurants and cafes (Yes, the tourist infrastructure here is so-so, but there are also restaurants with the national Bulgarian cuisine, and cafes, and benches with souvenirs)

There is here mineral springs Meeting +24 ° C with high minerals. Useful for children and adults suffering from gastrointestinal and skin diseases, urological infections and metabolic problems.

Abound hotels and apartmentswhere you can fine accommodate with your family. Although there are few hotels themselves - more than villas and rents, because almost all of the houses in Kranevo surrenders visiting. True, almost all of them are not on the coast, but Kranevo is not mountainous terrain, so even from a long-distance hotel getting to the shore with children or with a carriage is easy. There are no large hotels in the village (with the exception of Therma Palace Balneohotel and Aqua Life Tower), everything is "cheap and angry", and with the focus on the "angry".

-peace and quiet. Yes, Kranevo is indeed one of the quietest settlements of the Bulgarian shore. Of course, at certain points there may be noisy (when children's events are held here), and in general, Kranevo implies a concrete secluded rest, for those families that they like to sleep-sleep-sleep. "

Cons Kranevo

Unfortunately, Kranevo cannot boast entertainment for children and adults. More precisely, entertainment is more like adults - restaurants, in some places with live music, discos. They are a bit, but they still have. In general, it may be boring here. The only exception is children and their parents who come here for children's festivals, annually conducted in the summer. Then the atmosphere on the resort becomes very cheerful and colorful. And Kranevo, in essence, the private sector with a rural flavor and lonely worthwhile hotels. Single Azov during the Union times.

Where to go with children and what to do with them in Kranevo?

As I already wrote above, entertainment in Kranevo is not so much. Even, little. This, of course, is not Varna and not Sunny Beach. But here is what can be done:

-stroll along the village. The concentration of the shopping and entertainment life of Kranevo is the street of the Black Sea (you will find it if you go from the bus station down to the sea, without turning anywhere). If you need to buy a couple of things, snack, visit the only normal grocery store in Kranevo - you definitely need here. In the high season, the whole street is soaked with tents and trays with local baubles, here you can take pictures in traditional clothes, braid pigties girls or draw a henna tattoo. Cafe here, by the way, more expensive than similar 50 meters away.

-lighthouse 3 km south of the village, at Cape Ekrene (it can be seen from the road Varna - Balchik). Just in this place was the Bulgarian-Romanian border.

-"Stone Forest" (or "Drunk (beaten) stones", how they are called them here). That's, actually, interestingly. Unique natural phenomenon. On the sandy hills, where the Old Planina highway passes, at 50 square meters. KM "grew up" hollow columns 6-8 meters high with a diameter of up to 2 meters.
Some kind of cosmic spectacle. The age of columns exceeds 50 million years !! How these pillars were formed here, they did not definitely find out, but there are more than 20 hypotheses. Most likely, the sea was once at this place, and they formed these layers, similar to stalactites. And then, when the sea shook, the wind and rains have finished the case. Someone believes that these pillars were once gigantic corals at the bottom of the sea. And they are empty inside - because the stones are pile on the plants like mangrove trees (which grow in water). Third confident that these columns, in fact, petrified stumps of ancient tremendous trees. There are options that the trees are enclosed here aliens (really!), And this playground, they say, their cosmodrome, and pillars - lighthouses! Well, other theories, not so romantic, such as the arising from the seabed methane and other things.
The place of children will fade and interest. Do not forget to walk to the edge of the stone park - there is a "magic circle" from stones. It is believed that those who get to him and stand in the very center will be lucky to the end of life. How to find: The reserve is 15 km from Varna. If you move along the A-2 motorway "Varna - Sofia", 10 km from the city you will see a pointer on the green background "Breaky Kamani". Well, or take an excursion from the review (somewhere ride it will turn out).

-excursion to an ostrich farm

- water entertainment in the beach season. Not that they were so much, but on the beach you will most likely see catamarans, quads, bananas (about 3 euros), boats and yachts (somewhere 25 euros for walking) and windsurfing boards. You can diversify the beach holiday.

-excursions to neighboring villages(They, of course, an order of magnitude more interesting and more fun)

Visit Pottery workshop Emila's spouses and Mary Mildovy (True, excursion groups are most often driven here, but it is possible to agree) and see how a pitcher with a characteristic national ornament is born in the hands of the master. But the technique of painting on ceramics is very peculiar! Next to the workshop there is a shop where these jugs (and much more) can be bought.

Go to monastery Aladja. This is the oldest rock Orthodox Monastery of Bulgaria. In the 4th century, Orthodox monks at an altitude of 40 meters above the ground carved this monastery, where the ancient frescoes and parts of the cells were preserved, etc. From Kranevo to the Monastery -10 kilometers (there are bus tours).

In general, I would say that Kranevo is very well suitable for rest with young children. The teenagers here will be frankly boring.