The lake reflection
At its best in the early morning before the wind.
Камен Ханджиев — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Spiritia — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Petr Štefek — CC BY-SA 3.0 cz · Камен Ханджиев — CC BY-SA 4.0
For the city itself, no — the centre walks and buses run regularly to Golden Sands and Sveti Konstantin. For anything further out, in practice yes. Kaliakra, Ovech, the Wonderful Rocks, the Stone Forest and Madara all need a car or an organised tour — public transport to them exists in theory but is infrequent, slow, and assumes some Bulgarian. Car hire in Bulgaria is cheap by European standards, the main roads are good and the minor ones variable. Nessebar is the exception: regular buses run there from Varna in summer.
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The Wonderful Rocks are a sandstone formation on the shore of the **Tsonevo reservoir** south-west of Varna: a mass of natural columns and towers rising about fifty metres directly out of the water. The shape is the work of wind and water on sandstone over millions of years, cutting the columns vertically so that they read as a row of towers. The reflection on the still surface of the lake is what makes the sight — and the best time for it is early morning, before the wind gets up. In the rock are **caves and chambers cut by hand**, used in the Middle Ages as a church and as hermits' dwellings, with the tool marks still visible. They are reached by a path and steps. The site is open and free and not organised for tourism — no ticket office, no facilities, and you may find nobody there. **It combines with the Tsonevo reservoir itself**, which is used for fishing and paddling. About 57 km from Varna.
At its best in the early morning before the wind.
Tool marks still visible in the rock.
Tsonevo reservoir, near Asparuhovo village