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Bulgaria (Rila)

Day 1 - Hitchhiking to Malovitsa, the trail head for our 3 day hike to Rila...
in the rain
Local folk
Tourist picture
Family of flowers
The first refuge where we spent the night
Cabins and mountains
Cabins in the morning
Day 2 - Hiking to the peak ('Uh, I think it is this way')
Mossey rocks and a waterfall
On the trail and in the clouds for 10 hours
'hmmmmmmmm'
This guy wasn't so lucky
I was just excited to see anything through the clouds
Our first lake
From above
'You go ahead, i'll catch up'
'Hey, stop that!'
Our first glimpse of Rila
It was pretty cold
We met these crazy locals for lunch on top
Maybe we were the crazy ones?
Galia takes a break at the peak...
She doesn't like this picture...
but I don't like this picture
Eventually the blue breaks through
Snow
Looking down on 2 of the seven lakes
again
The other five lakes
again
Horses in the valley
Mountain in the distance
Sunset over Rila
We camped the night at the top
Galia gazes
Daryl drinks
Mountains and clouds

Looking straight down on one of the lakes
Day 3 - The 6 hour hike to Rila
Down the back side of the mountain
Through fields...
of wheat...
and flowers
purple flower
more purple flowers
blurry purple flowers
orange butterfly
I dunno what this is but...
I got excited about this shot
lots of white flowers
yellow flower
a blurry one of a kind flower
purple and yellow flower arrangement
bee on a pink flower
more purple flowers
a single yellow daisey
tree
Welcome to Rila where we were welcomed by this washing machine
I froze my ass off
Rila Monestary
Rila at dusk
same shot different angle
Fresco (portrait)
Fresco (landscape)
another fresco
'Yer all going to hell, heh heh heh'
Neofit Reilski - The main monk welcomes us in for the night
View from our room
The wakeup call
The cat wakes up
View from our room (looking up at our campsite from the night before)
Some more artistic attempts







We say our goodbyes
Finally a decent map