view from liberators hill towards old town ruins

Bansko to Plovdiv

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October 15th 2009
Continuing on down the Rhodopean mountains, we were blessed with lovely fien if chilly weather. The town got it's first dump of snow the night previous, given the cool temps (!) and we woke to snow capped mountains and ice on the roads. That made for bracing jogging but that could not stop me, of course. The private transfer to Plovdiv took less than 3 hrs and we settled into the Pension Plovdiv g ... read more

Europe » Bulgaria

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The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, b... ... read more