Tutrakan is the exotic Northernmost point of Bulgaria

 A small town located at the endmost point of Bulgaria, to the North facing the Danube and the barren Romanian plains on the other bank. Tourist routes rarely reach this point, perhaps because it is so remote and difficult of access, because of the bad roads leading to it. 

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How a doctor from Poland has been keeping Polish tourists flocking to Bulgaria

Photo: private library

How far can childhood memories, love of nature, of authentic rural cooking and of the small joys of life take us? The answer: to the central Rhodopes and more specifically the small resort town of Chepelare. 

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The mysteries of the Valley of Thracian Kings

The earliest traces of human presence in the environs of the town of Kazanluk in Central Bulgaria date back to the Neolithic age, i.e. 6th-5th millennium B.C. In latter years the Thracians settled permanently in those lands. A vestige of their advanced civilization are the numerous mounds, in which archaeologists discovered ancient sanctuaries or royal burials. The latter artifacts have brought the name of Valley of Thracian Kings. 

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