Pomorie Lake Protected Area

Pomorie Lake Protected Area covers Lake Pomorie, the northernmost of the coastal Burgas Lakes, right beside the Black Sea and the town of Pomorie. The lake is an elongated, ultrasaline natural lagoon, separated from the sea by a narrow strip of sand and an artificial dike. It has been a protected area since January 2001. Sea salt is obtained in its northern part and curative mud in the southern. It lies on the Via Pontica bird migration route and is of ornithological importance, with a very large number of bird species, and since the 2010s it has been a wintering site for thousands of greater flamingoes.

Visiting Pomorie Lake

The lake lies 2 km north of Pomorie and about 25 km from Burgas, separated from the sea by a sandspit and a dike. The Salt Museum, behind the town stadium on the lake bank, has an exhibition hall and about 20 decares of working salt pans, and it is next to the visitor centre, which helps with binoculars and maps. The northern part of the lake is used for salt, the southern part for mud; mud therapy is offered in town, and mud should not stay on the skin for more than 20 minutes a day. The lake is on the Via Pontica migration route, with more than 200 bird species recorded, marsh harriers and purple herons nesting in summer and Dalmatian pelicans passing through. Flamingos visit too, at times in their thousands in winter. Winter tourist-office hours are limited, so check them.