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downtown   Sofia

downtown, Sofia

 23 Reviews  We would recommend meeting local members of Virtual Tourist as they are most friendly and willing to assist a visitor in an instant and show you around. :) The Most Beautiful City of our Eastern Visit... 

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downtown   Plovdiv

downtown, Plovdiv

 7 Reviews  Next to the old town Plovdiv has many sights to explore in the modern town. I would like to suggest a walk. As in the the old town route, you start at the ploshtat Dzhumaya – thus, this walk is fine... 

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Vitosha Mountain   Sofia

Vitosha Mountain, Sofia

 14 Reviews  I have had people asking me if the water in Sofia/Bulgaria is good for drinking... Here is what I have to say on this matter: Bulgaria is well known for the big number of Mineral Water Springs. You... 

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old plovdiv   Plovdiv

old plovdiv, Plovdiv

 13 Reviews  There are many ways to walk the old town. Let me suggest a route. You start best at the ploshtat Dzhumaya. Here you can see the Dzumaya mosque. And you stand near the Roman Stadium. You can have a... 

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The Horse   Sofia

The Horse, Sofia

 5 Reviews  The Tsar Osvoboditel monument by the renowned Italian Sculpture Arnoldo Zocci, is one of the most beautiful in Sofia. Situated on the square in front of the parliament building, it is an expression of... 

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main street   Plovdiv

main street, Plovdiv

 2 Reviews  The city is liveliest in early evening when the citizenry turns out for the korso, the traditional promenade. The favorite route is up and down Knyaz Aleksandar, downtown's main street, lined with... 

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NDK - national palace of culture   Sofia

NDK - national palace of culture, Sofia

 4 Reviews  Sofia is now a busy city with a tempo of life comparable to many Western cities. It is a place, where one can find practically everything, starting with finding old medals, pins, badges and other... 

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Lions!   Sofia

Lions!, Sofia

 6 Reviews  its a clear comunist park with some comunist sculptures like that just in the center...i took this way croosing the park through the Levski stadium where i managed to get in but the guards ....so bad... 

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people   Sofia

people, Sofia

 8 Reviews  Ok, what you see on the picture is the cover of a book called The Art of Being a Foreigner. This book is a result of the mutual efforts of two VTers: Dilian and Kalenderov. It tells about the... 

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Pools and bathing-beaches   Sofia

Pools and bathing-beaches, Sofia

 2 Reviews  In Sofia there are so many open pools and bathing-beaches. During the summer they are full of peaople almost every day. And in the weeknds its even hard to find a spare place to spend the day there... 

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ROTUNDA OF ST. GEORGE   Sofia

ROTUNDA OF ST. GEORGE, Sofia

 3 Reviews  The red brick rotunda church of St. George is considered the oldest building in Sofia. It is situated behind the Sheraton Hotel, amid remains of the ancient town of Serdica. Three layers of frescoes... 

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Money   Sofia

Money, Sofia

 3 Reviews  Please remember that tipping is acceptable and expected in Bulgaria. Restaurants: 10 - 15% Taxis: Round up to the nearest whole number Hotels: 5 - 10 % Fondest Memory: So many... The willingness of... 

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The Russian church   Sofia

The Russian church, Sofia

 4 Reviews  Tiny church but cosy and mosre beautifull under my eye than not the huge and spread main chatedral....its just 5 minutes waling from the big one but i spent more timer here than not in the most famous 

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Alexander Nevski   Sofia

Alexander Nevski, Sofia

 6 Reviews  The main focus of attraction in the city...actually sofia doesnt offer so much to do or to see...perhaps around vitosha boulevard there is something to see cos is just the downtown... This church is... 

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National Theatre   Sofia

National Theatre, Sofia

 2 Reviews  The Ivan Vazov National Theatre is definitely one of Bulgaria's most striking buildings. Originally built in 1906 by the Viennese architects Hermann Helmer and Ferdinand Fellner it has been... 

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Slaveylov Sq.   Sofia

Slaveylov Sq., Sofia

 2 Reviews  who says that statues should be placed only in galleries, museums or parks? there is no good reason not to put them - oh, i don't know... - on a bench! and by a statue i don't mean that nice old lady... 

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Suburbs   Sofia

Suburbs, Sofia

 1 Review  Drujba seems like the Moon's surface, I guess. I cannot imagine how could I live in a place like this. But there are many people living in it! I will always remember this picturescue thorn and the... 

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sofia Land   Sofia

sofia Land, Sofia

 1 Review  if Your going to sofia you must go and see sofia land it's the best Amusement Park on the balkans and centeral Europe most of the ride ar for kids and teensage 5-17 but their also rides for adult too... 

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Restaurants   Sofia

Restaurants, Sofia

 1 Review  Sofia is full of good restaurants. The prices are more than reasonable, in most of the places the food is delicious and the service is relativly good in the mid class restaurants. The average... 

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Discounts

by ger4444

The ISIC (International Student Identity Card) and the IYTC (International Youth Travelling Card) is in Bulgaria good for discounts of 10 to 20 percent at museums, some of the major attractions hostels and restaurants. Always inform if these cards give some discount! (these places don’t advertise the fact that cardholders get discount!) Travel agencies offer card holders also up to 50 percent off domestic flights and 10 percent off train and bus tickets. So, don’t forget to ask for discount! (they don’t advertise it neither) There is a brochure that lists all the occasions where you can get discounts, but you have to be able to read some Bulgarian, for its all in cyrilic Bulgarian language. For information of the ISIC see: www.isic.org. Both cards, ISIC and IYTC, can be issued to anyone with the correct documentation. They cost about 10 lv each and are available at the Bulgarian youth...

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Culture and Nature

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Bulgaria seems to have a warm place in the heart of the United Nations. There are at least nine sites of culture and nature listed on the list of Unesco World Heritage! These are: Pirin national Park, the Rila Monasterie, the Madara Horseman (near Shumen), the Nesebar peninsula, the Boyana curch near Sofia, the Ivanova Monastery near Ruse, the Srebarna nature reserve and the Sveshtari tomb near Silistra, and the Kazanlak Tomb in Kazanlak. Next to these highlights of Bulgarian culture and nature, there are numerous of museums and art-galleries in the country, there are around 150 monasteries – the Rila and Bachkoko monastery being the most famous – and there are numerous of churches in Bulgaria among which the Alexander Nevski Church in Sofia and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Maria the most spectacular are. And, there are lots of traces of the past visible left by the...

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National Parks

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There are 12 national parks all over Bulgaria, in which the environment – flora and fauna – is protected. The parks contain reserves where wildlife and nature is protected and where unique landscapes are preserved, such as caves or lakes. However, although some of these parks are put under the protection of Unesco, such as the Pirin national parc, and environmental groups seem to put pressure on government to keep maintaining to protect these areas, economic interest sometimes seem to win over environmental ones. In the Pirin park a huge project is now being set up to built skiing-facilities. So, hundreds of trees have been cot to build skiing lifts over there. This is not only frustrating for nature preservation, it also makes the hike through the park – that is from Bansko up to the first hizha unattractive. The most accessible and beautifull parks are the following ones: Pirin...

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Internet

by ger4444

Internet is available nearly everywhere I went in Bulgaria. Smaller towns like Bansko and Koprivshitsa have acces to the web. Internet is cheap: about one lv for half an hour. The internet-cafés are always very easy to find: their names are mostly depicted in English. But also at computergame centers you can find computers with internet. Sometimes however there can be serious temporarie problems with the local provision of the internetservice. I was in Belogradchic and I had arranged with the youth-hostel in Sofia, that I would send them an e-mail, to confirm my reservation for that night., since I was planning to take the bus to Sofia that evening. But the whole day, there was no internet in Belogradchic: there was a problem with the local telecommunication tower. This can happen; so keep this in mind if you are depending on the net for vital matters!

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Visa and Registration

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People from the EU can travel for free during one month in Bulgaria. You get your visa at the airport or border. As for other countries, I don’t know about visa (except that US-travelers can also travel for free during one month) If you want to stay longer, just go to the border to the next neightboor-country and get a new visa. When you stay in Bulgaria you must know that officially registration is obligated. So, officially, you have to register at the police office. Hotels, hostals, youth-hostals and campings however will take your registration. You have to fill in a form and they will take care of the job. Now, the thing is, when you leave the country, you have to show the immigration officer the copies of all these forms the hotels etc. gave to you. I experienced this when I left from Varna. The officer said that I had to pay a huge amount of money (I think it was some 60 lv) because...

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Money, money, money

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The Bulgarian leva is at the moment of writing 0, 58 eurocents. Leva is always shortened to lv or BGN. The leva is divided in hundred sto- (100) tinki. Its easy if you are from germany or Holland, for one leva equals one DM or Dutch Gulden. How to get the leva’s? There are ATM’s in all the big towns. In little villages there can be a problem, that they don’t have a ATM. So, always be prepared to have enough money with you when you going to a little village. I was two times without money in the middle of nowhere and had luck that I could borrow some money from a fellow backpacker. (Thanks Jack, thanks Francois!) Credit cards are also common in Bulgaria. (especially Visa and master card). If you use traveller checks, I heard that not all exchange offices and banks will change them. So, I think the best thing is to change them in the bigger towns, where they have larger banks such as...

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Eating&Drinking in Bulgaria

by ger4444

About eating and drinking. First, you should know that when you get your menu, that you note that everything that you get e.g. beef, chicken, pork, or whatso ever is all you get. Its not with potatoes/ French fries or salads etc. These things have to be ordered separately. (and will cost extra) Salads is a good thing to start then. You will receive them before the main mael but you can of course – them being cold and fresh as they are – save to come togheter with the main dish. Bread is almost never for free, so if you don’t want it; say so! The waiter will put all the bills on your table (he puts them under the ash-tray or under your glass) and you will have to pay at the end of your meal. But be aware: you can do a lot of money saving (but this is also a bit akward to state since Bulgaria is so cheap!) if you are able to read a menu in Bulgarian. Ask for the Bulgarian menu then; and...

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National Revival Architecture

by ger4444

In Bulgaria you can find some architecture, that is nowhere to be found in the rest of Europe: it’s the: National Revival architecture. (19 th century) These peaces of architecture can be found in koprivshtitsa, Melnik and Plovdiv and, if you look good, also in other places. What is this style exactly? The style can be seen as a maniesto of restance against the Ottoman ruler. By visually creating a typical national style of architecture one could set a direct confrontation the foreign rulers. To make the picture complete: a lot of nationalist rebel leaders (intellectuals, artists) used to live in these houses; f.e. in Koprivstitsa, you can find the houses of people who played a crucial role in the struggle for independence: such as Kableshkov, Oslekov and others. What was so unique on these buildings? The homes were made of stone, wood and limestone. Groundfloors were made of bare stoon...

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Language (2)

by ger4444

Knowing the cyrilic alphabet is one thing. It can also be very helpful to know some basics in Bulgarian language. The list below contents some of these basics, with which you can get around for some time. (pronunciation just as its written below; although it will take some practise depending on your feeling for the Slavic language) Hello: zdrastiBey: chao (is informal: but easier to remember than the formal dovizhdane)No: neYes: daThanks: mersi (is informal; but easier to remember than the official blagodarya)Where are you from? : otkade ste?Do you speak: govorite li (engish: angliyski/ german: nemski/ French: frenski)I dont understand you: az ne razbiramI understand you: razbiramWhere is the?: kade se namiraI want?: molya, daytemiHow much is it?: kolko struva?How much is it per night? Kolko e na vecher?Im sorry: sazhalyavamPlease: molyaBus: avtobusTrain: vlakatTicket: biletPlatform:...

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Taxis

by Frank_1

If you are staying at Sunny Beach and want to get to Varna dont feel scared. Just hop on the bus with the rest of the tourists instead of paying approx 12 pounds.The single journey costs just 1.5 lev (60p) and takes 25 minuets.Any of the hotel staff can direct you to the nearest bus stop.The journey takes you right along the coast giveing you great views of the Black Sea.

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