Sofia

The Transit Tour

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December 16th 2009
After leaving Turkey, the next 50 hours were a pain and drain, as we blundered our way to Budapest, starting with an overnight pit stop in Sofia, Bulgaria. We decided to catch an overnight bus from Istanbul, that would land us in Sofia at 7.30am. We had heard good things about Turkish buses, and were told to not even bother with a Bulgarian bus company, and this advice was true. Good bus, serve ... read more

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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