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 Church near Sofia with +chapel frescoes of 1259)
- (Buzludzha)
- (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 6kms from Gura Humorului train station, Humor, Moldovita, Putna, Dragomirna)
- (Constantin Brancusi complex at Targu Jiu)
- The trovant stones of Costesti (80 kms west of Bucharest)
- Moldova:
- +Capriana monastery (15th c)
- Yugoslavia:
- Slovenia: Ljubljana (Joze Plecnik's Three Bridges, Joze Plecnik's Slovene National and University Library, Joze Plecnik's Central Market, Joze Plecnik's Chamber of Trade, New Mosque, Ivan Vurnik's Cooperative Bank on Miklosiceva street, Janez Lenassi's monument in Ilirska Bistrica), +Predjama Castle (the largest cave castle in the world)
- Croatia: Zagreb
- Croatia: +++Duvrovnic
- Croatia: ++Split
- Croatia: Krka National Park
- Croatia: +Plitvice Lakes National Park
- Bosnia: +Mostar
- Kosovo: Gracanica (+monastery of 1321, +St John the Baptist of 1321)
- Serbia: Studenica, be reached by bus from Usce (frescoes of 13th c), Mileseva (wall paintings of 13th c)
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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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