SMOLYAN, Bulgaria — Soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division participated in Combined Training Exercise Rhodope 23, from Sept. 11 to ...
Leaving the Rhodope Mountains three days ago, I gravitated back toward Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where I had a shower and a night in a bed. At dawn the sun strikes the clock tower on Sahat Tepe, and the city ...
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April in Bulgaria surprised us from the moment we landed in Sofia: light snow on the runway, blue mountains on the horizon, and roads so smooth they practically invited us to keep driving. With a ...
Bulgaria's Rhodope Mountains became the seventh area, part of the Rewilding Europe initiative. The project Rewilding Europe started in 2011, with main goal to recreate the kind of wilderness that has ...
The deep gorges of Bulgaria’s Rhodope mountains are said to hold the secret to health and long life – which comes in handy after a Shakira-induced injury We were high in the Rhodope mountains of ...
Rhodope bean salad is served, along with generous portions of patatnik and a dish of boiled potatoes with eggs, cheese and mushroom. Our hostess is Izkra, a resident of Trigrad. Izkra doesn’t speak ...
Bulgarian and Greek municipalities have come together to offer joint tourist tours of the Rhodope Mountains. This has been announced by Zlatka Nikolova, head of the Bulgarian Association of Rhodope ...