GOLDEN SANDS (Varna), Bulgaria 🇧🇬 - 4K 60fps (UHD)

Golden Sands is a major seaside resort town on the northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Located some 17km north of Varna / Bulgaria the Golden Sands area (known in German as "Goldstrand") is popular with Eastern European, German and Russian tourists on packaged holidays. The proximity to Varna makes it easily accessible by public transport with the airport there. At this point in time (August 2022) many Ukrainian refugees are staying in this area as several hotels take part in the refugee program.

The history of the Golden Sands mass tourism area started in the middle of the 1950's. This led to some massive concrete hotels that aren't favorably viewed by today's aesthetics. Since then this tourist area has been continuously developed.

Some (marketing?) legend has it that the name “Golden Sands” comes from an old story that tells of pirates who dug a huge stolen gold treasure in the ground which the land turned into sands. The sand is pretty standard today...

We walk some part of the busy beach walk area until Hotel Berlin near the marina late afternoon first. An endless stream of shops, beach bars and hotels facing the Black Sea. Later, near sunset (after swimming a bit) we walk back to our starting point and uphill to an hotel area to get an impression of the touristic atmosphere.


Filmed in August 2022

Camera: Osmo Pocket in 4K60
Mic: Zoom H1n

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