A short story about three young enthusiasts (Ned Dervenkov, Ivan Dimitrov and Alexander Hinkov) and their three day bike trip in the South-eastern part of Bulgaria. No big morals ahead but colorful scenery to be discovered…

This time the trip started out as a patriotic celebration honoring the Bulgarian independence day. The 3rd of March is THE date when one can observe an increased number of white-green-red flags per capita in Bulgaria. Everyone had his flag out… and so did we.

Pan-cultural unification! (Aleksandar, Ned and Ivan — left to right)

Moreover, if I have to be honest — despite the fact that we love our country and respect our traditions — we are philanthropes and strongly believe in global peace and omnipresent harmony (no, we are not hippies just people of common sense). We don`t like divisions nor walls (apologies to President Trump but we don`t ) and we truly believe that “the great forces” should do far better, in terms of global peace, than to counterposition weapons of mass destruction so that equilibrium exists. Thats why, for us, the 3rd of March 2017 was more of a a non-working day than anything else and an opportunity to do what we like the most — unite with nature. A great day for the beginning of our next bike adventure!

We had 3 days to explore the South East part of Bulgaria, starting from the biggest city in the region — Kardzhali. We took our chances with this part of Bulgaria for two reasons. Reason one (the heavy decision influencer) — it is a spectacularly beautiful area and despite the fact that it was still winter we were mesmerized by quite a few stunning views!