BELOGRADCHIK ROCKS & FORTRESS and VENETSA CAVE Bulgaria 🇧🇬

Good morning, and how are you doing today? I hope you're having a splendid day Today I'm gonna take you to see around Belogradchik Starting with a fort amongst those amazing rock formations on the hill So let's go and enjoy this beautiful day. It's sunny again blue sky It's getting hot already, and I'm up early so I don't get too toasted Hope I've brought my hat. Come on. Let's go Good morning, ticket for one One person, please The original fort was built about by the Romans in about 3 AD But the fort in its current state at the moment I think was built in about the 11th century and it's naturally built between these pillars and rocks on a commanding hill with fantastic Views so a very good bit of protective architecture and when you climb up to the top Look at the view You get About 20 minute ride from Belogradchik, that's it, about 20 minute drive from Belogradchik, where the fortress is. You will find this cave This is Veneca cave. Now. This hasn't been open that long maybe two years Just drove here. There's no public transport here Talk to accommodation about renting a taxi in town. It's not that expensive I've heard I think about 15 euros for a taxi to take you there wait and take you back Anyway, apparently it's very fascinating It obviously this northern Bulgaria is the place to see caves. Went to a cave yesterday Anyway, I've seen one cave now, we'll have a check out two caves. Hopefully today. This is the first one. This is the the newer Opened one and the less visited one. There was only three other cars in the car park She's just down there and you've got about a 200 meter Anyway Parked the car park and then it's about a 200 meter walk Very good road Hopefully you see a building ahead to the entrance Lots of things in languages, I don't understand. Let's go in and hope they understand me This looks like a place to pay good afternoon That wonderful Thank you Wait here At the time Three wait, okay and for ticket Or pay at three eight, okay about ticket now Thank you Mercy Now it appears the tours go in groups at certain times, so she wasn't showing me show me the piece of paper She actually telling me the time which is fifteen hundred hours Three o'clock and then the next group go down. I paid my fee and got my ticket It was eight live which is about four euro and I've got about half an hour to chill before we go down into the caves Ice-cream at least I saw cold drinks as a beautiful place to wait No That was a Venice decay, which is amazing They've put lots of lights in there that keep changing colors to change the mood and a guide goes down with you I think during the working hours, which I'm not quite sure what they are. I think they finish at 5 I got that much. I'm not sure what time they start in the morning. So sorry about that They go on the hour every hour and the tour takes about 30 to 40 minutes So a guide comes with you get a hard hat, which is essential. I still clobbered my head through the hard hat thankfully Many times because you go through some narrow passages you go down under some arches. It's nothing really that claustrophobic although it's underground But it's very beautiful and quite amazing Unfortunately the guide and all the other people there were Bulgarian so and she didn't speak English So I had no idea what was going on pointed to various things So I sort of made it up as I go along but yes stalactites stalagmites pretty things drippy things bat holes bat homes different shapes different sizes lots of cave pretty much But it was great. It was really nice and it was incredibly cold in there again I'm not used to that. I'm used to going a lot of caves I suppose it's a combination of having lots of bats living in them normally and there wasn't that many bats in the sections of the cave we went to and A lot of the caves have been to like in the Philippines and in Thailand They've had the Indian Ocean water coming up under them which creates a very humid warm atmosphere there It was actually pleasantly cold slightly damp feeling fact one or two of the people who went in with t-shirts and shorts were pulling on long sleeves and Trousers because it was that I wouldn't say cold cool I found it very pleasant It was quite nice in there. I hope the photographs did it justice to give you some idea of what it's like