Tours planned for summer of 2010

SEMA Express is proud to present to you an exciting folk dance and folklore tour we have organized along with experienced tour leaders Stefan & Bogdan Vaglarov. Tour length is 8 days and 9 nights, takes place in several of Bulgaria's cities - Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo, Koprivshtitsa and more. Professional folk dance teachers will assist you in learning traditional Bulgarian folk dances, ensuring memories and entertainment to remember this tour by!

For a more detailed information regarding this particular folk dance and folklore tour, feel free to browse the Tours section of our website.

In addition, we are planning to organize more exciting tours, related to the Rose Festival, held in the Valley of Roses. Those festivals attract more and more visitors each year, due to their unique style and tradition, reflecting the lifestyle, culture and soul of the entire Kazanlak region, and are held each year in the beginning of June. Please check back again soon, as we plan to release preliminary information regarding those tours soon!

Good times for Bulgarian sumo

Ozeki Kotooshu - Kaloyan Mahlyanov performed well during the tournament in Fukuoka, which ended recently. He won 10 matches (one of which against yokozuna Asashoryu), lost 5 and kept his rank as first ozeki.


Young Aoiyama - Daniel Ivanov won in fifth division Jonidan with a perfect score of 7 wins - 0 losses and hasn't known defeat ever since the beginning of his performance in Japan so far.


Petar Stoyanov - "the Chieftain" became an absolute chief of sumo in Bulgaria. We hope that his management would accelerate the production rate of sumo talents in Bulgaria!

Good luck, boys! SEMA Express is with you!

Bulgaria - Macedonia tour

From 20th to 24th July, we had the most wonderful tour, although short, around some of Bulgaria and Macedonia.

We had a short stop in a village along the way to Rila Monastery, to take pictures of several stork (Konotori) nests in its center:


After visiting Rila Monastery,

we headed over to Melnik:

We could not miss visiting Rozhen Monastery as well, which is just next to Melnik:

Our next notable stop was Ohrid and a tour around the old town.

Coming back to Bulgaria afterwards, we had a stop in a 5-star spa hotel in Kystendil.

The tour finished with a scenic walk around Cherni vrah, Vitosha mountain’s peak.

It was our great pleasure to show our good Japanese friends a bit of Macedonia and Bulgaria, and we hope to visit even more exciting and beautiful places in Bulgaria, or anywhere on the Balkan peninsula next time!

We will be uploading more pictures from the tour, on our website soon!