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October, 2016… Sofia, Bulgaria.
Bulgaria:
At night: The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Go USA! The rough color of Graffiti (which is everywhere) lightens up Sofia.
Rila Monastery, c 927AD
The Banitsa Stare-Down
Morning run through my local park in Sofia
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia's most famous landmark
St. George's Rotunda... oldest complete building in Sofia, 4th Century.
Th Red Star neighborhood... what? Just a missile and tank next to a playground.
The lake next to my apartment in Sofia
Filly in training... our day horsebackriding
City Garden Fountain
This region's grey, blue and black crows!
Sofia's National Theater
Soviet Army Freedom Fighter... with a Tommy Gun.
Another healthy Bulgarian breakfast of Sausage, mayonnaise (ha!), cheese, and the works.
Malamutes are everywhere! Here is my new best friend.
Rita's largest lake, 60 meters (180 feet) deep!
At the top of Rila's 7 Lakes trail
Rila Lakes top lake- the climb back down
On our way up the hiking trail
First two of 7 lakes spotted
An encouraging sign
Mountain Roads
Click here for post: Solo Driving Tour through Southern Bulgaria
Melnik 'Pyramids', Southern Bulgaria
Click here for post: Vitosha Hike and Sofia’s Neighboring Provinces
Sofia and nearby sites of Devetashka Cave, Lovech, Dragalevtsi Monastery & Vitosha Mountain:
Halloween at the Boyana Film Studios in Sofia
Lovech Province, farmlands
Lovech Mountaintops at sunset
Prohodna Cave exit, Lovech Province
Cave exit, gully of trees
Mossy rocks at the cave
10' high rocks... is this a turtle?
A sphynx?
Melting walls in the cave...
Sofia's Old Mineral Bath House
Krystal Garden, Sofia
Dragalevtsi Monastery: 3-bell gazebo
Dragalevtsi Monastery, discovered on Vitosha hike
Dragalevtsi Monastery
Vitosha Hike, Sofia down below
Vitosha Mountain Stream
Prohodna Cave entrance
Socialist Art:
Assembly Worker
Bent Woman
Che Guevara
Red Star: infamous star on top of the Party House in The Lago: Communist Square in Sofia
Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria's first communist leader
Georgi Dimitrov
Lenin (in a flight hat)
Lenin (looking chiseled)
Lenin (in a trenchcoat)
Partners
Freedom
For Freedom
Fredrich Engles
The Trabant
Women Diggers
Worker, 1960's (looks like he's wearing a backwards baseball cap...)
Soviet Army Freedom Fighter... with a Tommy Gun.
Th Red Star neighborhood... what? Just a missile and tank next to a playground.
Socialist Discussion? Statue in Soviet Army Square...
Southern Bulgaria:
Mountain Roads
Southern Bulgaria
Click here for post: Solo Driving Tour through Southern Bulgaria
Church outside of Rozhen Monastery
Melnik
Melnik 'Pyramids'
Melnik Pyramids
Melnik 'Pyramids', Southern Bulgaria
Abandoned Fruit Stand
Chepelare at morning light
Chepelare, blanketed in smoke
Chepelare's chimneys
Chepelare, crumbling home
Fields outside of Melnik
Shack near the Marvelous Bridges
Remaining garden in Chepelare, where I spent the night
Golden ferns in the sunlight
Above the Marvelous Bridges
Entrance to the Marvelous Bridges
Marvelous Bridges
Marvelous Bridges
Marvelous Bridges
Marvelous Bridges
Devil's Throat roadway
Devil's Throat roadway
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Sofia Restaurants:
Entrance way to The Little Things
The Little Things
The Little Things
The Little Things
The Little Things
Front door to The Little Things
The Little Things
The Little Things
Lavanda, screening room
Lavanda
Lavanda sign, inside
Lavanda
Pastorant
Side Trips While Living in Bulgaria:
Armenia:
Cascade outside art
Cascade, outside
Cascade flower, inside museum
Etchmiadzin candles
Carahunge at sunset
Carahunge at sunset
Carahunge at sunset
Carahunge at sunset
Etchmiadzin, central dome
Me, freeing a dove at Khor Virap
Found a friend at St. Gayana in Etchmiadzin
Garni
Eternal flame, at the Genocide Museum
Eternal flame, at the Genocide Museum
Pyramid at the Genocide Museum
Goat and sheet round-up in town near Carahunge
Group picture at St Gayana Church
Hatchers at Lake Sevan
Lion tombstone in Noravank
Etchmiadzin main church
Near Carahunge, in the clouds
Noravank Monastery
Savanavank at sunset, Lake Sevan
Savanavank at sunset, Lake Sevan
Savanavank at sunset, Lake Sevan
Sevanavank
St Gayane Church in Etchmiadzin
Tatev church entrance and cross windows
Gondola to the Tatev Monastery in the clouds
Tatev courtyard of hatchars (Stone Crosses)
Tatev courtyard
Tatev monastery kitchen
Tatev Monastery, church view
Tatev in the clouds
Tatev overlook
Yerevan
My parents in Garni
Group shot in Etchmiadzin
Group shot in Khor Virap
My dad in the central square of Etchmiadzin
My parents in Republic Square