Aladzha Monastery Cave Complex – Aladzha Monastery loop from Golden Sands

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Bulgaria

Varna Region

Aladzha Monastery Cave Complex – Aladzha Monastery loop from Golden Sands

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Aladzha Monastery Cave Complex – Aladzha Monastery loop from Golden Sands

03:15

11.3km

270m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: October 7, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through a protected area

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Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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851 m

Rope course

Highlight • Climb

This climbing park is located just above the Nature Park Center in the forest. Unfortunately, he looks a bit decayed and I could not figure out if he is still …

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2.96 km

Spring

Highlight • Natural Monument

A nice place for a short rest, as a spring gushes out of the mountain. Unfortunately, I can not read the language, but we drank the water ... At least …

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4.72 km

View of Golden Sands from Zlatni Pyasatsi Nature Park

Highlight • Viewpoint

Currently grown so that unfortunately no longer has a view.

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5.21 km

Aladzha Monastery Spring

Highlight • Historical Site

Rock monastery situated in the nature park of golden sands reserve.

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5.32 km

Aladzha Monastery Cave Complex

Highlight • Cave

The entrance ticket for adults 5 lev (2023). You can pay by cash and card as well.
Free parking near the monastery or a lot of really beautiful hiking routes around.

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5.47 km

Aladzha Monastery

Highlight • Religious Site

Acting by taxi ...
Just 10 leva :)

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6.08 km

Catacombs in Golden Sands Nature Park

Highlight • Cave

They will be accessible in 2023 😊

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9.23 km

Spring

Highlight • Natural

When you walk through the forest you come here. Do not drink water !!!
No drink !!!

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11.3 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

8.46 km

1.41 km

716 m

464 m

230 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

5.70 km

2.13 km

2.02 km

731 m

677 m

Elevation

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Weather

Monday 9 November

12°C

5°C

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Comments

September 17, 2025,Aladja 17.09.2025

This morning, we picked up our rental car and set off right away. We took a fantastic walk to the Aladja cave monastery, including a detour to the catacombs. Unfortunately, they were closed, and you could only get about 30 meters into the rock, so I couldn't take any pictures of the mummies 😢😥.
But it was a very beautiful …

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August 21, 2026,Was die Waden zum Weinen brachte - das Felsenkloster Aladscha

You can lie on the beach in Bulgaria in midsummer... or, like us, gasp through the prairie on your way to the most famous medieval rock monastery on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast....😂

The rock monastery was inhabited by monks/hermits in the 13th-15th centuries and was declared a folk antiquity in 1927 and a monument of national importance in 1968.

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April 30, 2025,Vom Goldstrand zum Aladja-Kloster

Beautiful hike past drinking water sources to the cave monastery, great path through forest with beautiful views of the sea, start and finish is the Golden Sands

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