Another great day in Bulgaria! Basically we walked around the old town and saw everything we saw yesterday. I tried to pay attention to the guide, but there are so many layers of history that I got all kinds of confused between the Tracians and the Communists and the plot to kill the president at the church in 1925 and being neutral in WWII until 1941 and the Turks, I have no idea about anything. 

We stopped outside some Turkish Baths. I don’t think they are in operation anymore, but the natural hot spring is still there. There is a fountain where you can drink it straight out of the tap– or fill your water bottles. The water has good minerals to make you healthy and strong and to live forever– or at least to 124 according to our guide. Since thetwinsontour are fearless adventurers, we of course sampled the waters! It was warm, but not hot (40 degrees Celsius whatever that means). And it did taste mineral-ly. All in all, not bad– I mean, we are still alive and kicking. No side effects or typhoid. We will have to wait and see if we live to 124, though, ok?

We also went to the Natural History Museum which is really not our thing.  We did see some jewelry that said it was from the 5th Millennium BC.  Which, if my English is correct means 5,000 BC.  Mind boggling.  The rest was pretty boring. But we did manage to sneak away for photos with some wonderful, ancient, headless statues.  I  couldn’t find a plaque that said how old they were. So I am going to declare them Tracian because I want to, not because I have any support for that.  

After all that we drove up the mountain to see the Stone River, an amazing river of super giant rocks.   See gorgeous photos of courageous rock climbers below. It was most definitely treacherous. But, since thetwinsontour are more sure-footed than a mountain goat, it was easy peasy lemon squeezy.

Love,

thetwinsontour 

PS. Enjoy these pictures. We have reached our maximum allotment of photo storage. I can’t delete any old photos, nor can I figure out how to pay for more storage here. Why is everything so complicated?