CONSEJOS PARA VISITAR BULGARIA | EL ATLAS DE JON

Hello my name is John and in this video I'm going to give you a few tips if you're planning to travel to Bulgaria I was in Bulgaria a few weeks ago a country located in Eastern Europe And the truth is that I was very surprised so I'm going to give you a few tips if you're planning to travel there If you fly to Bulgaria for example from Spain you can find very good deals to get there And you start by visiting Sofia which is the capital There are three main ways to get from the airport to the center One is to rent a taxi If you do this be careful Once you land there is usually someone trying to recruit you right Avoid taxi taxi and that group of people who walk around following you reject them Because that's not official taxi drivers it's people who have agreements with other taxis And they will charge you much more than with regular taxis and with the official ones Then if your idea is to take a taxi to get to the center as soon as possible And in the most comfortable way depending on where you go go to the taxi stands You can hire a taxi and pay there on the spot it will tell you how much it is They give you a ticket you give it to the driver and he takes you to the center Then do it this way Another way is to take public transportation there are two ways One is by bus which is already for real adventurers Because the driver usually doesn't speak any English and they tend to be buses that are usually quite full of people It is usually quite complicated to get around by bus Well if you like adventure it's a good option and it's one of the most affordable choices Another better option is the metro There is also a metro that connects the airport to the center So even if it's in another alphabet good then you can guide yourselves if it's well noted down Bulgaria is a country that uses a different alphabet so you might have some trouble understanding the signs and such They are usually not in English they are usually only in Cyrillic If you are for example coming from Spain or any country in the European Union Roaming is enabled which will consume your data whether you are using your phone here or in Spain So take advantage of that use the data to move around with Google Maps or however you like To help you with the organization there during the trip when you arrive The other option to reach the center is by renting a car For me it was the best option in fact what I did was because I wasn't going to be only in Sofia which is the capital of Bulgaria I was moving mostly to the south to two other points and then the best way for me to make the most of the days I was going to be there It's time to rent the car If you haven't seen the videos from when I was in Bulgaria I'll leave you up there and there you can see how I rent the car and so on It was very cheap I think it cost around 10-13 euros a day or something like that it was very good I didn't take any insurance apart from that If you stay in Sofia there is a wide range of hotels and hostels as well but hotels are not very expensive In general Bulgaria is a fairly inexpensive country I stayed at a hotel that was very good a 10-minute walk from the center I think it cost me 30 euros or something like that maybe a bit more maybe but it was great Regarding the best time to visit Bulgaria You have the summer part which is extremely hot keep in mind that it will be very hot And if I'm going to do for example hikes in the mountains and such you'll notice it And if you go in winter as has been my case you will find everything practically snowed in with temperatures below zero minus two minus three Depending on how the week went but well it has quite wide contrasts Then if you go between seasons for example If you go in May or if you go in September or October you will have a bit milder temperatures And they are not exaggerated one way or the other so keep that in mind too The typical food here is very Eastern European meaning that it usually consists of quite dense meats They are very filling in general or with a lot of roasted vegetables you are going to be quite full But you know that's why you understand how the Bulgarians are such a big people I mean because if that's their diet I tell you it's pure protein For example Sofia is a city that looks perfect in the morning So if you want to spend more time go ahead but if you want to make the most of the time you'll be in the country to see more things If you dedicate half a day to it that is I think you can visit it in about two hours you will see the whole city you will see the whole center Because everything is all super close meaning that going from point to point is just walking and you don't move at all Then starting from two hours the time you want to dedicate but that would be enough I therefore spent the rest of my time there visiting villages in the area but I couldn't see all of the Eastern region Because I didn't have time and didn't want to be stuck in the car the whole trip but there are other cities like Veliko Tarnovo which is the old capital or if you go to the coast you already have places like Varna which are beautiful coastal areas And in the middle there are a lot of towns worth visiting there are also parts with nature mountains or caves Beautiful rock formations In my case I went to the south where there is a monastery which is the most famous monastery in Bulgaria I highly recommend it it is located on the summit of a mountain at 1 100 meters in altitude It is located in the Rila area and besides seeing the monastery which is beautiful and it's free to enter the premises You can go hiking in the mountains depending on the time of year with more or less ease If you go in summer Bulgaria is generally very hot In Sofia you will notice it already or if you go on excursions to the mountains in that Rila area there is a very nice hike that is with There are a few lakes in the mountains you can take a trip to see them and it's very beautiful But I couldn't go because I went in winter and it was completely snowed in meaning it would have been impossible it's more used for skiing So I dedicated it to visiting the Rila Monastery and then I went back south again In the south I went to a town called Melnik which is famous for being the smallest city in all of Bulgaria for historical reasons You might think it's a tiny village it doesn't have much but I loved that I caught a local festival and then it was like There the Bulgarians are very folkloric and then when you see those festivals you will associate them with Bulgaria ose dances with those colorful costumes those lively dances where the whole town gets involved in dancing It's really beautiful to see really cool I had a great time and it was definitely worth the trip I was going there exclusively to see the town and some mountain formations called the Melnik Pyramids which aren't really much You see them in photos and say "It's beautiful and all " but when you go there they're just brown mountains Because they are made of clay which takes on curious shapes due to erosion wind and so on What I especially recommend in Bulgaria It's worth trying to look for local festivals to see how they celebrate because that local atmosphere is really cool See how the Bulgarians celebrate there they are people the Bulgarians are very kind people but it is true that it will cost you to find someone who tells you things with a smile on their face Only if a couple more wines arrive which is easy during those festivities but if you go to restaurants and so on You will see that those who attend to you are very kind people but with serious faces which is a very Eastern European trait It's also true that I know in Russia and in the countries of the region but it doesn't mean that people are unfriendly it's simply a way of being So that's why I recommend that you interact a lot with them they don't usually have a very good command of English but anyway they can get by and help you guide yourselves and that's it I don 't want to go on much more any questions you have If you are planning to travel to Bulgaria please let me know in the comments or contact me as she hasn't mentioned it yet And I respond to you gladly as always so many thanks for having made it this far and see you next time Goodbye