Itinerary
- Turkey:
- Nov 17: bus Istanbul-Burgas (9am-5pm, $20)
- Bulgaria:
- +Nesebar (old town on the coast north of Burgas, St. John the Baptist, St. Stefan, Archangels Michael and Gabriel, St. John Aliturgetos, Pantocrator), hotel Mistral ($10)
- bus to Varna (1 hr, $2), taxi to Aladza monastery ($7)
- Varna (seaside city, -Aladza monastery)
- (Veliko Tarnovo, old capital between Sofia and Varna, St. Peter and Paul, St. Dimiter of Solun)
- (Sofia, Rotunda of St George from 4th c, Santa Sofia from 4th c, Boyana from 11th c)
- (Ethnographic museum "Etar" at Gabrovo)
- (+Rila, monastery founded in the 10th century, 120 km south of Sofia)
- Train Varna-Bucharest
- Romania:
- Bucharest (Palace of Parliament, second largest building in the world)
- train Bucharest-Brasov (2.5 hours)
- +Brasov (Black cathedral, Bran castle, Rasnov castle)
- Sinaia (between Bucharest and Brasov): Peles Castle (former royal residence)
- train Brasov-Sighisoara (1.5 hours)
- +Sighisoara (medieval town)
- train Sighisoara-Vienna
- (++Monasteries in Bucovina (northeastern province, 400 kms from Bucharest, 6-7 hours by train: Sucevita, Voronet, Humor, Moldovita, Putna, Dragomirna)
- Yugoslavia:
- Slovenia: Ljubiana
- Croatia: Zagreb
- Croatia: +++Duvrovnic
- Croatia: ++Split
- Bosnia: +Mostar
- Serbia: Gracanica (+monastery of 1321, +St John the Baptist of 1321
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Notes
Trip difficulty: easy to difficult
Season: May to September
Length: 25 days
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Pictures
$1=30,000 lei and 2.2 leva
Train daily from Sofia to Istanbul takes about 12 hours (21:30-9:00)
Train daily from Istanbul to Sofia takes about 12 hours (23:00-10:25)
Three trains daily from Sofia to Bucarest take about 10 hours (7:15-17:00)
Sighisoara rooms for rent: Cristina Faur (094 119211) in the citadel
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