TOP 10 MISTAKES

First-time visitors to Bulgaria will make – and how to avoid them

WHO WAS KRALI MARKO?

Balkans are dotted with strangely shaped rocks interpreted as traces of might of  great mythical hero

VITOSHA'S RIVERS OF STONE

Nature park a few miles out of Sofia is easy to get to year roundNature park a few miles out of Sofia is easy to get to year round

BELIEVE IN IT, OR NOT

In words, Bulgarians are very proud of the Orthodox Church which they believe was a guiding light through the centuries of Ottoman (Muslim) domination