We DIDN'T Expect This! 24 hours in Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬

What to do when you only have one day in Sofia, Bulgaria? That's the problem we ran into. Since we are not full time travellers, we need to make the most of our time when visiting a new city/country. This was our only full day in Sofia so we started it bright and early! Guess how many steps we took this day? ......

19k 🫣 ....
But it was totally worth it!
We tried to capture some of our favorite moments from that day!

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Time stamps:
00:00 INTRO
00:40 MEKITSA AND COFFEE
02:02 ORTHODOX TEMPLE OF THE SEVEN SAINTS
02:39 LOCAL TRAVEL
03:37 PATRIARCHAL CATHEDRAL OF ST. ALEXANDER NEVSKY
05:46 CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS
06:30 THE PALACE - NATIONAL ART GALLERY
07:45 SOFIA UNDERGROUND
08:09 ANCIENT ORTHODOX ROUNDA CHURCH "SAINT GEORGE"
10:25 CATHEDRAL OF SAINT NEDELYA
11:02 BBQ IN SOFIA - RIBS BROTHERS
13:40 THE RED FLAT
17:30 BULGARIAN WINE TASTING - TEMPUS VINI
18:02 ARCHEOLOGICAL RESERVE ULPTA "SERDICA"
18:30 ANCIENT HOT SPRINGS OF SERDIKA
19:58 FANCY DINNER AT COSMOS RESTAURANT
20:47 BARS IN SOFIA
23:10 THOUGHTS ON SOFIA

We DIDN'T Expect This! 24 hours in Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬

[vernonandmaryana]

Wishing we had more time in this country but we will be back! We had so many great recommendations from our last video. What’s your favorite thing about Bulgaria? If you haven’t been, will you be visiting?

[yulielenkov]

The cyrillic "wasnt given to the bulgarians" 😄. It was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire during the reign of Tsar Simeon I the Great.

Grazie ragazzi x questo fantastico giro, Sofia sembra bellissima 😍

[dayanbalevski]

You collect the mineral water to drink later when it cools down... Some people exclusively drink this water and collect it in large jugs. This is a natural spring which all natural springs contain some Sulphur which gives it the smell, however if you put it in a bottle and wait until it cools down the sulpher evaporates away and the smell dissapears.

[sashoprm]

Hello, nice video with some new venues I haven't been to, since I live overseas. Yeah, Bulgaria is full of superstitions as well as omens, for example my grandma used to say things like:
- Don't sit at the corner of the table or you won't get married.
- Don't whistle after midnight because you're calling the devil.
- Finish your last bit of bread or the gipsy will beat you up...

Even though I'm in my 40's now, I actually still follow these rules and make sure not to break them when I find myself in those situations, as well as many others which I can't think of from the top of my head.

[swxfcewzn]

About the gallery:
Yes, you are right about the palace vibes, and it's because that was indeed a palace in the past.

[MonikaPetkova-xl]

Great video! However, I was surprised when you said at 13:52 that it's surprising Bulgaria has corn. Corn is a global food staple, it is not limited to the US.

[m.sh.]

Great video. ☺Bulgaria has so much more to offer. You should visit Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo-the old capital of Bulgaria, Koprivsjtica, Ruse, Gabrovo, , Nessebar, Balchik. We have beautiful mountains, caves, beautiful beaches and sea.

[BRAIN__PAIN]

I am bulgarian and my mother is also named Maryana 😂 It is a common bulgarian name 😊

[dayanbalevski]

Cyrillic was created by the disciples of St Cyril and Methodius who created the Glagolithic Alphabet, neither the language nor the script was "given" to the Bulgarians. The Cyrillic alphabet was commissioned by Tsar Boris I of the First Bulgarian Empire in 800AD. The disciples, namely St. Naum of Preslav and St. Climent of Ohrid (Both Bulgarian cities) based the cyrillic script off of the Glagolithic script, and it was named after Cyril who was their teacher. Missionaries during 1000 AD were sent to Russia and other slavic speaking lands to give them the liturgical language and the Bulgarian Cyrillic Alphabet.

The rotunda church was built later on the remains of the 4th Century Bath house, the structure itself is from the 4th century, the interior is newer. The structure was likely reinforced and maintained, that is why it looks as it does.

[deyankrustev]

As a Bulgarian I HATE Cosmos. For example ''Shtastliveca'' and ''Constantinoff'' are far, far, far tastier options.

[morpheusvipbg]

The first place is the worst to get Mekitsa, far away from traditional dough ...

[dreamingwhilefat]

WHEN YOU GET THAT WATER, YOU LEAVE THE BOTTLE OPEN FOR THE NIGHT AND THE NEXT DAY ITS FINE.

[goldiewatches]

You guys are going back to Romania next I hope :)

[showingYOUtheworld]

Nice video and thumbs up👍,
but just a couple of things:

1. At the very beginning  - showing Bulgaria with the Russian background music  = let's say a MistakE 👎 and it is kind of disrespectful for us ❗
Our folklore is unique and globally recognized and it's even exists on the Voyager's 12-inch gold-plated copper disk containing sounds and images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth
2. Local travel agencies  = BIG and crazy expensive mistake !
Their travel packages are not flexible for the customers and most of them are with doubtful quality.
Also the prices are very high.
If you want for some reason to travel abroad from Bulgaria,   try to organize your trip by itself.
You will be a lot happier with the final results and you will save some money 👍
3. Also kind of disrespectful for us:
The Russian soldiers HELPED us to escape from the 500 years Turkish slavery !
They helped us, they DIDN'T saved us !!!
There is a huge difference !
The way you represent our history is, like we didn't do nothing to liberate ourselves from the Turkish slavery which is of course totally untrue  !
4. It's important to know, that the food quality in Bulgaria is in general not very good.
That means, that if you want your stomach to be safe,   you need to search for more expensive restaurants = high quality food products + better cooked.
Another important thing is, that during the summer  in many places in Bulgaria the restaurant and diner owners are keeping their fridges in a low level to pay not so much for electricity.
That makes the food kind of not exactly spoiled, but not good either.
So if you have a gentle stomach and it's extremely hot outside, be careful from where exactly you are buying your food ! ! !
5. About that mineral water.
I am not 100% sure, but I think, that it's , ,drinkable" meaning, that , ,you" will not die.
BUT it's not drinkable water if it's not written about that specifically  !!!
6. Now this is kind a interesting and many patriotic bulgarians probably will not be agree with me, but , ,traditional Bulgarian food" almost doesn't exist.
Everything in Bulgaria is mixed from the countries around us and mostly from  the Turks.
Almost every , ,traditional"  bulgarian meal is just a variation of meal from another country.
But still there is something unique and typical Bulgarian:
And that is The Bulgarian yougurt and 🙏
don't compare it with the Greek yougurt because it's completely different ❗
Our yougurt is a lot more healthier thanks to the living bacteria inside of it and contains less calories.
Google it for more info. and try to find a home made bulgarian sheep or goat yogurt 👍👍👍

[boyanmetodiev]

9:49 not the language, but the alphabet

[aleksanderaleksandrov]

I don't understand, the last few videos I watched of tourists in Sofia are begging with russian music ...

[TikiGardenParty]

Bulgaria was never part of Soviet Union so the flat is Bulgarian communist flat not Soviet flat, cheers