I went to the monastery and the church with my friend. We were lucky enough to join this tour as the other one has left us behind. The Tour guides were passionate and very informative about the Monastry and the Church. We had free time for ourselves too to look around the 5 museums the Monastry had to offer. I highly recommend booking a tour with City tours. They are helpful, knowable and passionate.

It was super nice! We had enough time for Boyana Church and Rila Monastery, you will have 2h30m at Rila Monastery, you can go up to the tower and also get mekitsa (which is very delicious!) The shuttle bus wasn’t so comfortable but it was acceptable.

It was approximately for 2 hours drive to the destination, kind instruction was given to the participants. Even though there was the trace of snow that had been still remained in Rila, it was not so much cold than I expected in the mid of February when I had the tour. The time in the Rila Monastery was approximately for 3 hours (12.00 arrival, 15.00 to get on the car for return, verily enough, everything was possible, including museum, restaurant, strolling around the monastery that has the water fountains, drinkable waters, famous for clean, non chemical.) The fascination of this destination is not only the renowned sanctity, but also the surrounding environment, rocks and mountain ranges, superb scenery of Bulgaria can be enjoyed on journey.