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See some pictures of a very colourful monastery in the Bulgarian mountains.
In a time when I still had to hunt for the cheapest possible tickets, I ended up in Sofia, Bulgaria on the way to Zimbabwe. Actually, from Amsterdam I had a stopover in Vienna before arriving in Sofia. Then, another plane would take me to Harare via Malta and Lagos, Nigeria. Instead of a non-stop flight, this looked like adventure to me! And it was even possible to stay a few days in Sofia. Obviously, this is exactly what I did. But the airline paid only one night in a luxury hotel, and I decided to stay in another place for the other nights. So I went to the tourist office, and at least at that time the country was not touristy at all. In fact, it was just half a year before the Berlin Wall came down and Bulgaria was known as one of the better allies of the Soviet Empire.
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