Traveling to Bulgaria

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I'm planning a two week trip in the middle of May to Bulgaria. I'm mostly interested in exploring cities, enjoying local food/drinks, and seeing nature/hiking. So far, I know I want to stay a few days in Sofia and a few days in Plovdiv, I also want to do the 7 Rila lakes but I am not sure if this is doable in May. I'm planning on doing an excursion from Plovdiv to the Rhodope mountains to hike which seems like it may be more doable this time of year. I will likely also do a day or two in Veliko Tarnovo as it looks very interesting.

Does anyone who's been to or lived in Bulgaria have any recommendations or advice about this general itinerary? Would be much appreciated!
 
Where are you from ? I would like to go to Bulgaria too. I think it is extremely simple and safe and close to you can't do anything wrong there. I got no recommendations. I actually get the language, they don't always get me but I get them. Simply cause Germany got a lot of Bulgarians. Some do get me very well too. Bulgaria is cool, you're destined for a great time. Balkan friendliness and safety. It's simple there and the opposite of posh or stuck up.
 
Trabaho said:
Where are you from ? I would like to go to Bulgaria too. I think it is extremely simple and safe and close to you can't do anything wrong there. I got no recommendations. I actually get the language, they don't always get me but I get them. Simply cause Germany got a lot of Bulgarians. Some do get me very well too. Bulgaria is cool, you're destined for a great time. Balkan friendliness and safety. It's simple there and the opposite of posh or stuck up.
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Awesome to hear, thank you! I'm super excited to visit.

I'm coming in from the US.
 
Interesting choice for an American. Why Bulgaria, of all p!aces?
 
I've never been, but my former roomate and best friend is Bulgarian.

Regarding Sofia, one of the greatest piano recitals of all time happened there!

 
Rila Monastery was awesome i loved it, stuck in montains woods

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Sofia is ok as city
 
I spent a week in Sofia last year. Myself and my business partner went to meet friends of ours who operate a large business in Sofia they also aided us in setting up an arm of our operation there and hiring staff etc (as well as opening a Bulgarian business to run payroll etc). Had an amazing time with amazing people. Food is great, people are wonderful and my friends who live there showed us an incredible time to say the least.
 
Sofia was a decent city.
Was only there for 3 days. Overall thought food was good. Noticed in gym there, people seem to be more fit & more jacked dudes than in the other Baltic cities I had visited. Fitter city overall imo.

Only went out one night & not really familiar with night scene.

Veliko Tyrnovo, a smaller town on outskirts was pretty.
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Stayed there for a night & had a nice morning run before heading to Sofia.
I tend to remember places better in ones I ran outside at.
 
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Contempt said:
It was a hell of a drive to get there but yeah, beautiful.
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For us has ben kinda easy, we did organized trip from Sofia, so we had just to sit our ass on a bus

We seen also a small super ancient church before monastery during same thing, we seen also a village withh huge storks colony
 
Bacco said:
For us has ben kinda easy, we did organized trip from Sofia, so we had just to sit our ass on a bus

We seen also a small super ancient church before monastery during same thing, we seen also a village withh huge storks colony
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Yeah same. It was a super long day of travel on the bus leaving from Sophia, but worth it.
 
I'm from Romania (the country next door)
I've been once to Bulgaria, but only to Veliko Tarnovo and the Black Sea beaches.
Veliko was small, but nice. There was some battle reenactment on a big hill when we got there.
The smaller non-turistic cities looked pretty bad. No idea about Sofia.
Good cucumbers
I forgot about the food
Cyrillic alphabet... God, no!
 
Contempt said:
Thankfully, we'll all die of old age before we run out of cool places around the world to visit.

*sigh* maybe next year, just need to nuke the mortgage a bit this year.
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Same, busy smashing down my own offset account too.
 
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