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[nanuna]

Wohoho, yeah, I’m back! It was a very nice trip so this entry may turn out to be a bit long.

On Friday evening mama asked me whether I wanted to join them in their trip to the Rhodopes so here’s the story…

We went to that place where we stayed at in July. Reen knows itJ It is situated in maybe the most beautiful Bulgarian mountain ( just for

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[nanuna]

Some more photos of the caves. I found them on the web ( but it's much better in reality):
According to the legend, "The Devilish Throat" is the place from where Orpheus goes to the Underworld of Hades to save his Evridika.
There are other legends, connected with the Thracians but ,generally,for many years people believed that whoever goes into the labyrinth of the cave, never goes out again...brr...haha!
http://www.bgglobe.net/pictures/objects/nature/P029401b.jpg - this isn't a very good photo but i couldn't find any other ones. ( *waits for her own pictures*)
The Trigrad Gorge:
http://www.bgglobe.net/pictures/objects/nature/P029601b.jpg
http://www.bgglobe.net/pictures/objects/nature/P029602b.jpg- *looks down..oops..it's quite high*
http://www.bgglobe.net/pictures/objects/nature/P029603b.jpg- speleologists found more than 150 caves in the region. This photo must have been taken from the mouth of one of them.

The Yagodinska Cave:
http://www.bgglobe.net/pictures/objects/nature/P029201b.jpg
http://www.bgglobe.net/pictures/objects/nature/P029202b.jpg
http://www.bgglobe.net/pictures/objects/nature/P029203b.jpg- they call this "leoprad skin"- it's not very attractive but quite rare
http://www.bgglobe.net/pictures/objects/nature/P029204b.jpg
http://www.bgglobe.net/pictures/objects/nature/P029205b.jpg

That's it- enough pictures for now, hehe!

[obsessed_monkey]

It's so pretty. I have seen something similar in Majorca with limestone formations which make the spikes and pillars from the ceiling of the cave :)