“We figured it out from what we saw and from the guide’s words that Northwest Bulgaria and the Danube banks were even wilder and offered beautiful natural landscapes. For people, practicing our kind of tourism and looking for the touch of nature, this here is a paradise!”
The Belogradchik Rocks can be found not so far from here – one of the wonders of Bulgarian nature. They look like a movie décor and a series of tourist and bicycle routes among them can take the tourist into a magnificent world, so different from dull reality. The towns of Nikopol and Svishtov can be found down the river, but the path, leading to those is a sad one, since not a single soul can be found in many of the settlements along the riverbank, once full of life… The Kaleto area with the remains of the so-called Shishman Fortress can be seen in Nikopol, recalling one of the most tragic periods of Bulgarian history – the fall under Ottoman rule back in the 14th century. The fortress is taken in 1395, after heavy battles.
The university town of Svishtov is the next stop of our journey, atypically bustling and having nice architecture. However, the canyon of the Rusenski Lom River is perhaps the most spectacular spot along the Danube. Bird songs sound among the magnificent rock formations and the villages, scattered at their foot with their wonderful guest houses. Dozens of rock monasteries, chapels and cells have remained as a testament of monks from the past. The town of Tutrakan is another pleasant surprise, with the old spirit of a fishing settlement, the only of its kind Museum of Danube Fishing and Boating and of course… fish soup. The Srebarna natural reserve, situated at Via Pontica – one of the main migration routes of birds, is another magnificent spot.
“90 bird species nest constantly in this reserve, 90 raise their offspring here and a total of 220 species are registered here", Mrs. Radka Terzieva from the information Center of the reserve says. "Most of them use the place as a temporary stop on their way to South. We have welcomed about 11,000 tourists this year, from this country and abroad. We even had an African, saying he felt like home here!”
Different measures are being taken under a series of EU projects right now, with the idea tourist routes to be outlined and popularized in this magnificent part of Europe, still not touched by globalization.
English version: Zhivko Stanchev
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