Bulgaria Motorcycle Tour – The Southwest

This Balkan motorcycle tour starts near Vienna. After the group gets acquainted, the motorway leads past Budapest into Serbia, where the night is spent in the center of Belgrade. After arrival there's time for a walk along the Danube before reaching the Bulgarian border the next day.

On this guided Bulgaria motorcycle tour we leave Belgrade and cross the densely populated areas via the motorway. Lunch is in the Serbian hinterland, and in the afternoon we reach the Bulgarian border. Before dinner we visit the Belogradchik Fortress, a miraculously shaped rock formation.

This stage of the tour on your own motorcycle takes a fantastic route through the Balkan Mountains south to the capital, Sofia. A German-speaking guided city walk reveals the extraordinary history and culture of the city before the night is spent in Sofia.

The morning leaves time for Sofia's city center before the ride continues into the Rila Mountains and the national park of the same name. There the 1,000-year-old Monastery of St. Ivan of Rila, Bulgaria's most important monastery, awaits with a guided tour.

Mount Vihren, at 2,914 m one of Bulgaria's highest peaks, accompanies this stage of the southwest Bulgaria motorcycle tour for almost the entire day. Lunch is in the country's smallest town, known for its sandstone pyramids. The night is spent in the ski resort of Bansko at the foot of the Pirin Mountains.

One of the most beautiful riding days of this onroad Bulgaria motorcycle tour winds through countless curves and past reservoirs into the country's second-largest city. Plovdiv, at the foot of the Rhodope Mountains, was European Capital of Culture in 2019 and is considered one of Europe's oldest cities.

After a guided city walk through Plovdiv, the route leaves the Thracian Plain and crosses the Balkan Mountains northward in the afternoon over one of Bulgaria's most beautiful passes. The former capital sits above the gorge of the Yantra River.

On this stage we cross the Balkan Mountains twice, riding two passes popular with Bulgarian bikers. We spend our last night in Bulgaria at the northwestern edge of the Fore-Balkan, in the small town of Montana.

This Serbia-Bulgaria-Romania motorcycle tour crosses the Danube northward in the morning, and with it the border into Romania. Here too, freshly resurfaced roads await. The night is spent in the Banat Mountains, in the former imperial mining town of Reșița.

To close out this motorcycle tour from Vienna, we cross the Romanian-Hungarian border together. The guide accompanies the group a little further through Hungary until just before Budapest, before everyone continues home independently with plenty of memories in tow.