Interesting places
Balchik, Kaliakra and Dobrich: palace, cape and museums
Queen Marie's palace and botanic garden at Balchik, the cliffs and fortress of Cape Kaliakra and Dobrich's museums, with hours, tickets and day plans.
9 min read
Practical outdoor guides
Plan a better day outdoors.
Source-based guides to outdoor trips in Bulgaria and beyond: choose a route, plan your stay and leave less waste behind.
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Interesting placesPirin
Bansko and Razlog: Revival houses, bears and a Roman town
Bansko's fortified Revival houses and icons, Razlog's masquerade museum, the Belitsa bear sanctuary and Nicopolis ad Nestum, with hours, prices and transport.
11 min read
Interesting placesDanube & the north
Belogradchik and Vidin guide: rocks, caves and Baba Vida
What to see around Belogradchik and Vidin: the fortress among the red rocks, Magura and Venetsa caves, Baba Vida and Kula, with day plans, hours and prices.
10 min read
Access & conditions
Hiking in Bulgaria by train and bus: trailheads, tickets, bikes
Reach Bulgarian gorges and mountains without a car: BDZ stations near trails, the Rhodope narrow-gauge line, Vitosha buses, tickets and bikes on trains.
8 min read
Interesting placesDanube & the north
Bulgarian Danube towns: Svishtov, Tutrakan, Silistra, Srebarna
Roman Novae and Kaleto in Svishtov, Tutrakan's fishermen and 1916 memorial, Silistra's fort and Srebarna's pelicans: a Danube road-trip guide with hours and prices.
10 min read
Interesting placesBlack Sea Coast
Burgas, Sozopol and Nessebar: what to see on the southern coast
Nessebar's churches, Sozopol's Greek past, Pomorie's salt pans, the Burgas wetlands and Roman baths, with day plans and checked hours.
11 min read
Interesting placesStara Planina
Gabrovo, Tryavna and Etar: crafts and Revival villages
Etar's water-powered workshops, Bozhentsi, Tryavna's carved ceilings, Dryanovo Monastery and Bacho Kiro Cave, Sevlievo and Hotalich, with hours and tickets.
9 min read
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Camping
Where you can legally sleep outside, what it costs and what facilities to expect.
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Cleanups
Litter reporting, cleanup logistics and what happens to the waste afterwards.
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Bulgaria
Guides to Bulgaria's mountains, waterfalls, coast and picnic areas, with source-based access and waste-planning notes.
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United States
Plan visits to US public lands with the relevant land manager's access, camping and permit information.
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United Kingdom
Scottish uplands, access rights and community-managed landscapes in Cairngorms.
1 region · 6 articles
Slovenia
Lake visits, camping bases and practical outdoor trip planning in Slovenia.
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Portugal
Atlantic mountains, granite valleys and protected villages in the Peneda-Gerês landscape.
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Morocco
High Atlas villages, alpine passes and water-scarce trekking around Toubkal.
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Argentina
Glaciers, lenga forests and sudden weather in Los Glaciares National Park.
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Australia
Coral reefs, sea Country and regulated marine recreation on the Great Barrier Reef.
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The Guardian - Environment
A California town’s beaches are washing away. Can its residents turn the tide?
Rapid coastal erosion threatens coastal homes and economies, and as Super El Niño rounds the corner, a town is reckoning with the reality of climate crisis San Clemente is one of southern California’s most picture-perfect beach towns – a capital of American surf culture since the 1950s. In two years, 2028 Olympic surfers will compete at Lower Trestles, a…
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‘We hang on to summer a little longer here’: five of the best places for autumn sun in Europe and Turkey
If you’re looking for a last blast of summer, these sunny resorts offer quiet beaches but enough life to stave off the end-of-season blues A Kalkan sunset is always a beautiful thing – the horseshoe-shaped bay deepening to azure blue against an apricot-rose sky – but, in October, when the light is low and the sun drops early, it’s almost transcendentally…
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A Greece for all seasons: my autumn roadtrip through the Peloponnese
An out-of-season journey through the peninsula reveals Byzantine villages, deserted beaches and friendly tavernas As I drove across the causeway which links the tiny fortress island of Monemvasia to the south-eastern coast of the Peloponnese, the Aegean sparkling on all sides, I recalled a line by Yiannis Ritsos, one of Greece’s greatest 20th-century…
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