One of the biggest tourist resort complexes along the northern
coastline, Golden Sands (locally known as Zlatni Piasaci) is famous
for its healing, hot water mineral springs as well as for its
beautiful two-mile (4km) stretch of fine sandy beach. The resort is
11 miles (18km) north of Varna, and sits at the foot of the
forested hills of the Zlatni Piasaci National Park, which is one of
the oldest in the country and features a variety of interesting
flora and fauna. Golden Sands offers the whole family ideal holiday
conditions with plenty of entertainment, sporting activities, warm
and clean water, year round luxury hotels and villas, restaurants,
bars and spa treatments, making it one of the more desirable
vacation destinations on the Black Sea Coast.