31 August 2010

Road to Turkey - Bulgaria

We crossed Bulgarian border on 19th August in Sinistra and walked through the city to find a good hitchhiking spot. When we found it, soon we stopped a driver who took us to Balcik near the sea. We were hoping to sleep on a beach but we didn't find any so we spent the night in some kind of park, in bushes. We continued hitchhiking in the morning and rode eight cars that day. First took us to a better spot, the next to Varna. There we walked through amazingly long bridge to find a proper place to continue. We ran out of water and i started to panic. I said that nobody would take us from there and just after that a car stopped ;) It turned out that there were CouchSurfers going back from the airport where they left their cousin and the car was rent. on the way we talked about our journeys and hitchhiking experiences.
In Burgas we stopped to buy some water and the girls left us at the best spot around. Then we continued to Tsarevo by two cars. The second driver was "former hitchhiker" :) but he warned us that the route we'd chosen was not the best one. We could feel it waiting for hours. Then we decided to move a bit and after a while a car stopped. It was a young married couple exploring nearby villages.


They took us to Kosti and Bulgari, a village of 150 houses where every year on 3rd of July you can see people dancing on fire with icons.



We visited old orthodox church there and met a friend of the couple who was currently staying in Malko Tarnovo, our next destination. He took us there and helped us with an accommodation. We slept in luxury and it was relatively cheap.


The owner of the place spoke to us using a mixture of Bulgarian, Russian and German which sounded really funny.

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