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This is an amazing waterfall near to Bachkovo:


Here I'm with Radostina and another girl on the sea (well, the sea is not on the photo )

Vania wrote:

Do you want more photos ?

Yes!!

I didn't see these pictures ! Thank you Vania !!! You look very happy and smiling on it.
Where you were is very beautiful. The Monastery of Bachkovo seems to be a very interesting place. It looks like some monasteries I studied and I visited in Greece. It's an orthodox monastery isn't it ?

Kisses :<33:

Marina wrote:

Where you were is very beautiful. The Monastery of Bachkovo seems to be a very interesting place. It looks like some monasteries I studied and I visited in Greece. It's an orthodox monastery isn't it ?

Yes, it's an orthodox monastery and it's really one of the most beautiful in Bulgaria.

If you are interested here you can find more photos.

Oh merci Vania
It's really beautiful, I like this kind of monasteries. Now, I'd like to go in Bulgaria to visit them !

Marina wrote:

It's really beautiful, I like this kind of monasteries. Now, I'd like to go in Bulgaria to visit them !

You're very welcome, Marinochka! It will be great if you visit Bulgaria some day!

Bisous!

So, I have the photos and as I promised to some of you, I will write a little report.

But it will be quite short, because most of the time it rained and we had nothing else to do except staying in our tents. But a few interesting things happend though. You'll find out from the photos

So, let's start.

We left Timisoara at around 8:30 in the morning. I think I don't have to mention that our backpacks weren't ready in the previous night. So in the morning, everybody was agitated (I for sure) hoping that we will have everything we might need in the middle of nowhere.

Of course, the train was full of people, but luckily the journey is only 3 hours long. Me and a friend found an empty compartiment. But we found it after the others settled somewhere else. They were too lazy to move their luggages and theirselves through 3 or 4 vagons, so we stayed separately. But...eh...we had space, so they visited us quite often.

Well, we arrived in Resita (that's the town near the places we wanted to visit) and it was pouring, "raining cats and dogs" as some say.

We really had to make some shoppings (vegetables, some food and...plastic bags -> no, we didin't plan to murder anyone).

While some of us went shopping, some stood in a lousy bar . Luckily the waitress was nice and she let us stay there with our huuuuge backpacks. She even helped us not to get wet.

So, shopping...

Then we got in the car that was supposed to take us near the camping place. It's some sort of minibus. It was ok. Nobody got carsick on the way. The journey was 15-20 minutes long.

We arrived near the bridge..and now what?! It was raining..still. Ok, wait. Let's organise. Let's cover the backpacks and us. Let's find some caps/hats. Some of us didn't have any ("Don't you watch the weather channel? They said it will be cold")

So, after all the preparations, we looked like this:
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and http://img505.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture017qd5.jpg

My best friend dressed up..fancy, eh?
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I was in the middle of some debate probably..
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Now, let's go. We had to descend a little. http://img178.imageshack.us/my.php?image=im000421cc4.jpg It was something like "Underneath the bridge". I and my best friend fell...a little. The soil was wet, the backpacks dragged us, so we glided on our butts....in the mud. But, the plastic bag helped..hihi..no dirt on the upper part of the pants.

Some bumpy roads and some climbings up and down.
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Eventually my green cap got wet. So look what I have now...
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After 30-40 minutes, we spotted the place, the cave.
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There was enough space for 4-5 tents. And that wass what we looked for. But it was raining and we were soaked. We were freezing. Our arms and legs were wet. We couldn't possibly assmebly the tents while pouring like that. Everything would colapse.

We considered camping in the cave. But in order to get there, we had to cross the river (Caras) and carry over the things we had. Of course....no bridge. Well, it's quite logical though. It's a mountain river (a gap/gorge).

The boys went ahead to check the place. We followed them in a while....We carried all the things through the ccccooold (brrrr) water with bare feet. The rocks were...hmm..let's say not very friendly.

Still raining...

The cave was 6-7 meters high. Guess what? We had to climb.
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I never climbed on anything in my life, but I loved it. I was very enthusiastic about it. I was excited and curious. My best friend was horrified. She was really afraid. She said she prefers to stay in rain. huh...finally she climbed.
We had a cord and 2 harnesses. We managed to climb with the imense help of our friend who climbs occasionally and he really loves it.
But I must say we are crazy . We had no experience in climbing, but we decided to climb the wet wall . It was very slippery so our soaked boots didn't helped at all. Some of us climbed in socks..it was much safer. You could definetly say we didn't have the proper equipment. But the wall wasn't that difficult
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Ahh...we were finally up. Photo from the inside http://img345.imageshack.us/my.php?image=im000458lq3.jpg
All of us...but we were freezing. We needed clothes and food. We were hungry as well. But how? The backpacks are down...
"What are we going to do? "
"Let's drag the backpacks up"
"You're crazy....you'll destroy the backpacks"
"Let's carry some clothes and some food and leave the rest there"
"Nooo, I'm not letting my knapsack down"
"I need it"
"I need everything from it"
"It's heavy, carry it yourself"
"I can't"
"So one of us is going down and he sends bags with everything we need"
"But you can't search in 8 bags for 8 pants, 8 blouses, etc..and food. It's not efficient"
"We sleep in the cave?"
"If it's raining"
"We sleep in the cave? Cause if we do, we could carry everything up"
"Look, it's not raining anymore"

Ahh...and so on, so on for about an hour. 8 people, 8 opinions. We were laughing, arguing, fighting, quacking, shouting, laughing again...

Eventually, our dear friend (pretty pissed off..ups) carried the backpacks up...he stayed suspended in order to take care of the bags while on their journey to the cave.

Everything and everyone was up.
The rain stopped...we were laughing and joking that the sun might show its rays. And my god...eventually it did (a pale sun, but anyway) Oh c'mon. This is too much to bare. This is a joke!! After such hard times!!!
Well, the guys climbed down...and they started gathering wood, WET wood.
They also assembled the tents. We were supposed to preapre the food, in the cave..... Imagine that Sounds familiar?
We couldn't do a thing, we couldn't climb down. Not without help.
We soon realised that the food we were supposed to eat was in one of our friends bag..who obviously was down...

And now we wait....

Have I said "short" story? Guess I was wrong....

The second part tomorrow..
I'm very tired now...
Kisses,

Aleex, scumpa mea, thanks for your "short" report. The pics are awesome I liked your hat seriously ... and the plastic bags - obvioulsy they helped much

I did write a longer message, but when I posted it, it disappeared, just as Lana said once. I hope that when I re-post this one, there will be no problems.

Celuvki!
Have a nice day!

Wow Alex ! What an adventure ! Your photos are so funny, especially you, with a plastic bag instead of your green cap ! You're so cute scumpa mea !

Thank you for this report ! I'm waiting for the second part !
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Oh, Alex.. it's soo cute and funny!!!!! Thank you for writing it down and for sending all these lovely photos!!! :33:

Alex, today I have more patience and I’ll try to write longer comment and let’s hope it won’t be lost . The photos you made are great. It seems so beautiful there – the cave, the mountain… It’s a shame it did rain almost all the time, but I see you were well equipped . I even saved some photos on my pc, I hope you don’t mind – but I want to look them from time to time.
I’m waiting for the second part of your report, when you have time, of course. And, eventually, for more photos . You all look very happy although the bad weather. Actually, maybe the rain made your holiday more interesting, making it an extreme experience :\\/: , I just hope it didn’t completely ruin your vacation.

Kisses! Celuvki!
Vania

Vania wrote:

I even saved some photos on my pc, I hope you don’t mind – but I want to look them from time to time.

No, of course I don't mind. They are public I think..I can't really control their destination I'm joking of course.. I'm glad you like the photos. Thanks.

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You all look very happy although the bad weather. Actually, maybe the rain made your holiday more interesting, making it an extreme experience :\\/: , I just hope it didn’t completely ruin your vacation.

Well...it shortened the vacation and ruined it a bit..because we had plans. But things turned out differently and all in all it wasn't that bad. The rain challenged us..


I'll try to write the second part now...but..but..I don't know if I'll finish.

Kisses

So, we had to wait. No food..no nothing...
I had a huge "bucket" of chocolate cream and all the bread, my sister had the mustard, ketchup and so on, my friend had some cans but no tool to open them. So..not to much to choose from, eh?

Besides, we wanted to wait for the others, to eat together. They also had the food that was prepared for that afternoon.

Finally, the rain stopped. After installing the tents the boys came up. They brought the backpacks and we finally ate. So one problem was solved...the hunger. But we were still freezing, even though we had clean and dry clothes on us.

After eating, we decided to visit the cave. Ohhh...it's a cave well-known for the bats in it. Imagine that after advancing a few meters, the light was practically inexistent. We had some flash-lights and that's all. There were a few meters of ceiling full of sleeping bats. They did nothing, we weren't afraid. Why would we...We didn't harmed them or anything...We tried to stay as silent as possible and let them sleep . hehe. Well, the problem was that the floor was very slipper. I'm sure you guessed why . Guano was all over. Guano is...hhmm, how to explain. It is is the name given to the collected droppings of bats. Luckily this area wasn't very long . After a while, we had to walk very crooked because the ceiling was very low. It was very interesting, but at some point, since we didn't had the proper instruments, we had to stop. Otherwise we would have had to crawl..to nowhere. Brrr...

I'm sorry, but I don't have energy to finish the story now...so I'll show you some photos from the cave and continue tomorrow...or this week.

- some of us

- I love this photo. this "wall" was wonderful. It was covered with gold and silver. (Ehm...not real gold or silver..but some material I don't actually know )
- a narrow passage. we had to climb and creep in order to continue our "journey" . that's me


- my sister trying to pass

Sleep tight..kisses :xxxxx:
Have to go now...

Wow Alex, thank you so much for the photos ! :xxxxx:
It was a real adventure ! Climbing, walking in this deep cave without light... great experience !

I like very much the photos with your sister who tried to pass, and this one, very beautiful...

alexandra wrote:

- I love this photo. this "wall" was wonderful. It was covered with gold and silver. (Ehm...not real gold or silver..but some material I don't actually know )

What about sliver and gold guano ? Seriously, it seems to be very beautiful. I like very much visit caves in France (abroad too I guess, but the caves I have visited are all in France !), because we always discover curious and incredible things.

Marina wrote:

What about sliver and gold guano ? Seriously, it seems to be very beautiful.

That would be quite something!!! Imagine people running to collect gold guano!!

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I like very much visit caves in France (abroad too I guess, but the caves I have visited are all in France !), because we always discover curious and incredible things.

Yes, you're right. It is always a nice experience. Very interesting and exciting.

I'm glad you like the photos.

Kisses :xxxxx:,
Alex