Day Tour:
Bansko – Dancing Bear Park, Banya Village

Visit the amazing area of Pirin mountain and get closer the Bulgarian history with this day tour from Bansko.

The Dancing Bear park near Bansko

This is the first in the Balkans and Eastern Europe Center for rehabilitation of dancing bears, built on an area of about 120 acres, with the financial support of the International Foundation for Animal Rights “Four Paws”. It currently houses 13 bears, and soon will be able to accommodate all the dancing bears in Bulgaria. The Dancing Bear park near Bansko is the only of its kind in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe, and The park is composed of two parts connected by 30 foot secured bridge that can be freely crossed by the  bears.the largest and most modern in Europe harboring the victims representatives of the species. The first part of the Dancing Bear park was found in 2000 with an area of ​​1.2 hectares, the second one opened in 2004 with an area of 8.4 hectares.

Banya is one of the oldest villages in the Razlog valley near Bansko. Its founders and first settlers were the Thracians. This is confirmed by the remnants of an ancient Thracian settlement near the Roman bath in the village. Residues Thracian settlement in several places outside the village. At the beginning of the IV c. BC. E. Razlog and the Banya village came under the power of the Macedonian king Philip II, and later Alexander the Greatest.