BulgariaRough Guides, 2002 - 502 pages This guide to this little known but deeply rewarding country, includes comprehensive accounts of all the sights from the capital Sofia to the time-warped villiages and wayside monasteries. It includes practical advice on outdoor pursuits - the best hikes, ski centres and Black Sea beaches - plus a run-dwon on all the folk festivals and informed commentaries on Bulgaria's turbulent history. |
Contents
Getting there | 9 |
Colour map of the country | 10 |
B Basics | 11 |
Red tape and visas | 21 |
Information maps and websites | 27 |
Accommodation | 37 |
CONTENTS map symbols | 45 |
Outdoor activities and ecotourism | 55 |
G S Rakovski and around | 154 |
Boyana | 162 |
Montana Chiprovtsi and around | 178 |
The Magura Cave and Midzhur | 184 |
Aleko | 194 |
Kremikovtsi | 204 |
Silistra | 206 |
Eating | 221 |
Police trouble and sexual harassment | 61 |
Accommodation | 62 |
Sofia | 71 |
The Southwest | 117 |
mosque and the mineral baths 85 | 129 |
the National | 136 |
YUGOSLAV | 139 |
The Sredna Gora | 226 |
the Valley of the Roses | 244 |
Drinking | 280 |
ROMANIA | 363 |
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Common terms and phrases
accommodation Aleksandar Avtogara Bâlgariya BALKAN RANGE Bansko Berkovitsa BLACK SEA COAST Blagoevgrad Bogoroditsa Borovets BULEVARD Bulgarian Burgas bus station buses Byzantine cafés central centre century Chiprovtsi Church of Sveta Communist courtyard daily Danube DANUBIAN PLAIN Dobrudzha Dragalevtsi drinking east ensuite festival Gabrovo Gotse Delchev Greek Haskovo hiking houses Hristo Botev icons Kârdzhali Kâshta Kazanlâk kilometres Knyaz Koprivshtitsa Kyustendil Lovech Macedonia main square medieval Mehana Melnik modern mosque mountains Museum Muslim nineteenth-century offering Ottoman Pamporovo park pass Pirin PLAIN OF THRACE Pleven Plovdiv region restaurant Rhodopes Rila Monastery river road Roman rooms route Rozhen Ruse Samokov Sandanski Shipka Shumen Slav Sliven Smolyan Sofia SOUTHWEST SREDNA GORA Stara Zagora street summer Sveti there's Thracian tickets tourist office tours town train station Troyan Tryavna Turkish Turks ULITSA valley Varna Vasil Levski Veliko Târnovo Vidin village Vitosha Vratsa walk