The Medieval citadel standing beside the old town

This was the capital of bulgaria for a long time based almost purely on the geography of the place. 1) It's near the centre of the country, 2)The citadel could be built on an isolated, almost vertical sided hill. It's within a huge loop of a meandering river. A fluke of nature has left a 100m long, 4m wide raised walkway that connects the main street of the town to the citadel gates.

VT for three.. days

October 23rd 2006
The last few days have been so charged with life it's been incredible. Our vague travelling three (Val, Kinsey, and I) easily turned into a four as we made plans at our turkish host's place. It seems Cem also had little better to do than hang out with Americans, and the lack of a Bulgarian visa and threat of a night in a cell was but a small obsticle. The four of us piled into the overnight ... 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

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