fiona and marc on Nostr: To avoid cycling in the crazy midday heat 🌞 we got up early. Our day started on a ...
To avoid cycling in the crazy midday heat 🌞 we got up early. Our day started on a flat and small side road - nice and easy. 😊 Since Fiona wanted to visit a thracian tomb some meters beside the road we turned onto the hiking path. Haha, after some meter the path wasn't even hikable. But we fighted our way through the scrubb. 🤪 When we reached the thomb it was fully locked in a baraque and of course it was closed. 😢 Very frustrating! And we stuck in the wild bushes... 🤯 After a while and too much exhaust we found the ridable road again 😅
we cycled through Kazanlak, the city of roses. 🌹 Did you knew Bulgaria is the second largest producer of rose oil? Sadly we missed the rose festival about two weeks. and therefore all the roses where already harvested . But we saw some lavender fields🪻and imagine, Bulgaria is worldwide number one in producing lavender oil 👑
After we crossed the monument of Dimitar Blagoev (he was a Bulgarian political leader and philosopher, the founder of the Bulgarian left-wing political movement and of the first social-democratic party in the Balkans.) we could see what elevation we had to climb... 😲 And because of our (stupid but funny) excursion into the scrubb we started to pedale uphill in the crazy midday heat 🥵.
The higher and nearer we came to the Ufo-shaped Buzluzha monument, the more gigantic it apeard to us (Wiki: The Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party was built on Buzludzha Peak by the Bulgarian communist government and inaugurated in 1981. It commemorated the events of 1891, when a group of socialists led by Dimitar Blagoev assembled secretly in the area to form an organized socialist movement that led to the founding of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party.)
The 'Torch monument' is a part of the Buzludzha monument.
#cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #adventure #traveling #travelphotography #bulgaria
we cycled through Kazanlak, the city of roses. 🌹 Did you knew Bulgaria is the second largest producer of rose oil? Sadly we missed the rose festival about two weeks. and therefore all the roses where already harvested . But we saw some lavender fields🪻and imagine, Bulgaria is worldwide number one in producing lavender oil 👑
After we crossed the monument of Dimitar Blagoev (he was a Bulgarian political leader and philosopher, the founder of the Bulgarian left-wing political movement and of the first social-democratic party in the Balkans.) we could see what elevation we had to climb... 😲 And because of our (stupid but funny) excursion into the scrubb we started to pedale uphill in the crazy midday heat 🥵.
The higher and nearer we came to the Ufo-shaped Buzluzha monument, the more gigantic it apeard to us (Wiki: The Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party was built on Buzludzha Peak by the Bulgarian communist government and inaugurated in 1981. It commemorated the events of 1891, when a group of socialists led by Dimitar Blagoev assembled secretly in the area to form an organized socialist movement that led to the founding of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party.)
The 'Torch monument' is a part of the Buzludzha monument.
#cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #adventure #traveling #travelphotography #bulgaria