Exploring Bulgaria's relatively undiscovered delights, this guide gives tips for budget skiing destinations and offers more peaceful holiday ideas including beaches, mineral spas, monastries and hiking. There is also a handy language section to help with the communication side of things.
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* We offer travelers the world's richest travel advice, informed by the collective wisdom of over 350 Lonely Planet authors living in 37 countries and fluent in 70 languages.
* We are relentless in finding the special, the unique and the different for travellers wherever they are.
*We update our guidebooks by visiting thousands of places in person to get the details right and tell it as it is.
* We always offer the trusted filter for those who are curious, open minded and independent.
* We challenge our growing community of travelers; leading debate and discussion about travel and the world.
* We tell it like it is without fear or favor in service of the travelers; not clouded by any other motive.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Lonely Planet Bulgaria (Country Travel Guide) (Paperback)
If you need a guidebook to visit Bulgaria, this is not the book you should buy. Major mistakes in history, cities descriptions and biased commentaries make this guide useless for people who travel the first time to the country. Travelers will learn that there is an impressive Roman castle in Vidin, or search for prehistoric constructions around the Belogradchik rocks. Tough task, since the Vidin Castle is Medieval and the Belogradchick rocks don't have any prehistoric construction preserved. You will learn that by October all Black Sea resorts have closed, which is totally false. There are endless possibilities to stay on the Black Sea coast during October, for less money and huge discounts, and many of the hotels (all 4 and 5 star hotels, for example) are open year around. In Nessebar, UNESCO World Heritage Site, you will search for Roman ruins (again, is everything that Lonely Planet see in Bulgaria "Roman"?), where surrounded by Byzantine Churches and medieval Revival architecture.
Biased and false commentaries such as "youthful maritime cockiness of Varna" are abundant. (Varna is one of the most elegant cities on the Black Sea Coast, often compared to Barcelona or Lisbon, plus it hosts the oldest gold of the world, recently exhibited in NYC. There is nothing "cocky" about the city - an adjective better used for Burgas, for example). The examples of lack of accuracy are endless. My advice: go with Eyewithness Guide or any other guidebook.
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I spent 2 weeks driving around Bulgaria in October 2009. I used this guide exclusively for accomodations and frequently for restaurants. I found it accurate and discerning. It led us to a number of unique and excellent hotels and with no losers. The restaurants it recommended were good choices. The description of the Bulgarian cities, travel sites, and history was good, helpful, and accurate. A good buy all around. Doug Van Vlear
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Disappointing,
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As a very old timer with Lonely Planet Guidebooks, I have observed a turn in them from "survival guides" to more general to almost vague guides. It is not clear to whom these guides are intended. This one although recently updated lacks much basic information about places, times, prices etc. As was written by a former reviewer:" If you need a guidebook to visit Bulgaria, this is not the book you should buy". We recently returned from an 8 day trek in the mountain areas covering the Rila, Pirin and Rhodopi ranges. Many of the places we visited are not mentioned at all in the guide and those that are have very limited discriptions.
I reccomend trying the Rough Guide.
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Bulgaria has a fascinating but often bloody history of invasion, occupation and subju punctuated by four comparatively short periods of political and economic in and stability. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
foreignexchange offices, revival period homes, national revival period, three fast trains, public bus station, telephone centre, accommodation agency, private buses, negotiable rates, unlimited kilometres, boxed text, accommodation agencies, accommodation office, daily buses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Sea, Vasil Levski, Stara Zagora, Hristo Botev, Maria Luisa, Rila Monastery, Rila Mountains, Pirin Mountains, Stara Planina, Tsar Simeon, United Bulgarian Bank, Ethnographical Museum, Happy Bar, Historical Museum, Balkan Airlines, Sveti Konstantin, Tsar Osvoboditel, Second Bulgarian Empire, Rila Bureau, Veliki Preslav, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Ivan Vazov, Sveta Nedelya, Princess Hotel, Russian-Turkish War New!
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Bulgaria has a fascinating but often bloody history of invasion, occupation and subju punctuated by four comparatively short periods of political and economic in and stability. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Black Sea, Vasil Levski, Stara Zagora, Hristo Botev, Maria Luisa, Rila Monastery, Rila Mountains, Pirin Mountains, Stara Planina, Tsar Simeon, United Bulgarian Bank, Ethnographical Museum, Happy Bar, Historical Museum, Balkan Airlines, Sveti Konstantin, Tsar Osvoboditel, Second Bulgarian Empire, Rila Bureau, Veliki Preslav, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Ivan Vazov, Sveta Nedelya, Princess Hotel, Russian-Turkish War New!
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- Black Sea (Wonders of the World) by Corinne J. Naden on page 20, page 21, and page 77
- A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (New York Review Books Classics) by Patrick Leigh Fermor on page 50
- Stealing from a Deep Place Pb by Brian Hall on page 50
- Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov on page 93
- Getting There by Michael Roads on page 81
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