Welcome to Premier Bulgarian Birding Lodge

Branta Birding Lodge, overlooking Durankulak Lake and Black Sea, is ideally situated for visiting many top birding locations, endless and peaceful white-sand beaches, important protected areas and many sites of archaeological interest along those remote parts of the Bulgarian Far North that have avoided the construction boom.

Branta Birding Lodge

This high-quality, three-star complex, is an excellent, peaceful base for birders, photographers and nature lovers wishing to stay in a warm and friendly atmosphere and enjoy wildlife around protected wetlands and virgin steppe habitats. It offers outstanding birdwatching opportunities for novice and professional birders, including a variety of daily trips from Bulgarian and Romanian lagoons, along the Black Sea coast, through steppe habitats and ancient wet forests, to steep-sided gorges… Provides outstanding possibilities for Eco-Friendly vacation especially for running Nature, Wildlife and Photo Tours, Birdwatching Holidays and Short Breaks, Botanical Circuits, Hobby Tourism, Fishing, Weekend and Guided Day-trips.

Another bonus of this kind of accommodation is that visitors can take advantage of a quiet and unspoiled environment, calm atmosphere, outstanding views of the sea and the lake, as well lots of helpful tips and information about the surrounding areas and the country.

The Lodge, owned by knowledgeable birdwatchers, is open all year round.

* Dinner and Packed lunches can be provided by prior arrangement.

* Just note that we are not a shack or other kind of roadside bunkroom where guests share outside toilets. Within the Lodge we have a number of comfortable, quiet and clean double and twin en suite rooms equipped with double-glazed mosquito-screened windows, air-conditioning, central heating, mini-bar refrigerators, Internet and colour TV. Most of our rooms are with view over the lake and the sea.

Our advantages:

- Comfortable, well-located and clean accommodation providing the basis for your visit to the region. It lies in a very strategic position along the Via Pontica flyway. From the Lodge it’s easy to get to the sandy beaches or to the protected wetlands. It is close to the Romanian border and to the international motorway E-87.

- Delicious traditional cuisine and generous local hospitality in the company of your hosts, Tatyana and Pavel, who are able to provide a wealth of background information on wildlife matters and indeed on cultural topics, as well as singing and playing a nice evening piano-bar music that will fit perfectly to your style.

- Direct access to the advice and knowledge of Pavel Simeonov - the only experienced ornithologist living in the area and one of Bulgaria’s leading naturalists who is guiding most of our trips along the Bulgarian and Romanian Black Sea coasts. Pavel is also your driver providing a transfer service from and to the Varna airport in only 1 hour. Furthermore, our 7-seater 4WD vehicles are available on request for excursions with or without guide.

- The real natural features of the region - a combination of aesthetic beauty and the unspoiled aspect of the environment, i.e. only a few people are aware that Bulgaria still possess such areas of wildlife where “Nature is still Natural”.

- The wildlife starts at your doorstep, i.e. over 135 bird species have been recorded from our terrace. The Lodge’s grounds and immediate surrounds having breeding Scops Owls, Syrian Woodpecker, Bee-eater, Golden Oriol, Black-necked Bunting and Hawfinch in spring, migrating Pelicans and Cranes in autumn and a number of Red-breasted Geese in winter, to name but a few …

- Outstanding views over Durankulak Lake and the Black Sea.

- Unique opportunity to visit Durankulak Archaeological Park located on the “Big Island”, near the western shore of the lake and just 300 m from Branta Birding Lodge, presenting Seven Thousand years of European culture, the earliest proto-civilization in the Old World, the oldest stone architecture in Europe and the largest prehistoric (Neolithic - Eneolithic) cemetery in the Balkans. The first worked gold in the world was also found here, as well as the only rock shrine to Mother-Goddess of Kibella discovered on the Balkan Peninsula.

Please email to info@branta-tours.com with exact dates of travel for a firm quote (accommodation, transport and guiding cost) with an indicative itinerary and list of species to be seen.