I just came form a 3 week trip to NE Bulgaria, covering large amount of towns and cities, exploring their museums and taking pictures. I'd seen Biala, Russe, Shumen, Razgrad, Varna, Balchik, Svesthari with the Thracian Tombs, Obzor, kranevo /and beat the waves on the last 2/, but m,y real surprize came from a little place called Demir Baba Teke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demir_Baba_Teke.
I bought a book about in in Svesthari, because there was a Thracian temple of the Great Mother Goddess there, so I went to see it with my own eyes. The remains of the Thracian temple is in the base of the temple of the Muslim Shiites /here called Aleiani, they are Alevi/; and there is something on the cliffs that start from the temple that looks like a horse head. So I decided to climb the cliffs to see it up close; there are also holes in the cliffs, one trianglular, one eliptic and one round, they look man-made and I connect then with the cult to the Great Mother Goddess/. I took picts, but I cannot post them now, it has to be when I come back. Anyway, it took me about 3 hours to climb on a little dangerous path that vanished all the time among rocks and trees, and to get up on the surface; but it was worth it.
This place deserves it's own thread, on which I'll write later as I read the book; here now some pist I found on the net.
On this link is a pict of the remains of the Thracian temple
http://www.milarodino.com/images/objects/thumb_435/image_2942.jpegHere you can see the cliffs that I climbed /on a diagonal path, that took me a long way in the right/
http://www.infotourism.net/documents/11841_DemirBabaTekkeandThracianSanctuarySboryanovoBulgaria.jpgAnd the horse head I mentioned:
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/5a/36/da/caption.jpg
Edited by Don Quixote - 25-Jul-2012 at 09:36