Product Description

Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Bulgaria, the ultimate guide to this picturesque and largely undiscovered country. The full-colour section introduces Bulgaria’s highlights, from the sunflower fields of the Balkan range to the country’s wonderfully preserved heritage villages. Using informed accounts, clue-up on all the top sights from the spectacular Trigrad Gorge and the awe-inspiring Church of the Nativity at Arbanasi to the best beaches of the black sea coast. The guide takes a detailed look at Bulgarian history, literature, politics and Balkan cultural life with expert background on everything from the spectacular Rila Monastery to hiking in the Pirin mountains. There are plenty of practical tips on bird-watching, information on all the best accommodation, transportation and restaurants and lively reviews of hundreds of shops, bars and clubs. Discover every corner of Bulgaria with the clearest maps of any guide.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119125 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

About the Author
Jonathan Bousfield has been writing for Rough Guides for over ten years. His other titles include Croatia, Baltic States, Austria and Poland. Dan Richardson first visited Bulgaria in 1984 and is also the author of Rough Guides to Romania and Hungary.

Customer Reviews

A must have if looking around Bulgaria
A must have addition to your luggage when visiting Bulgaria & hiring a car,lots of interesting places & routes to follow,with very important local hints & tips.

Usual Rough Guide strengths
We often buy the Rough Guides if we're going to a new country, because they provide an awful lot of information across a range of subjects and are always well written and easy to navigate. This is no exception; it highlights the must sees, and gives very useful travel, language and food information. It's excellent background reading before you go and should prove useful when we get there (holiday planned for July). Only criticism of a single guide is that it cannot do justice to such a vast country and information is limited on any one location - but hey that's not the purpose of the book. A great buy overall.

Really usefull for recent trip to Varna
I recently used this trip for a weeks holiday in Varna, on the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria. The book had a reasonably large section on the city, with a very useful map. The restaurant recommendations were definitely the highlight, and meant that we didn't really have a bad meal out there! The prices that were quoted in the book however did seem to be slightly out of date - for example the city museum cost 10 lv instead of 4 lv that it said, but then again I wasn't expecting it to be too accurate, as prices do fluctuate. All in all I had a wonderful holiday, and the book was very helpful, obviously this only counts for the section on Varna, but it was informative, and gave us plenty of ideas of what to do, and where to go.