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all qualified and experienced staff.
We operate the latest computerised
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We offer prompt confirmations and tickets.
Our services include groups and incentive
travel.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria has changed rapidly over the last decade, though
in the villages you can still find folk who ride the donkey
to work, eat homegrown potatoes and make their own cheese.
The difference now is that they wash it all down in front
of a satellite TV.
When Bulgaria ran away with the topsy-turvy capitalist circus,
no-one told its people they were swinging without a safety
net. Consider that citizens resorted to digging up the streets
to pull copper from the telephone wires and you'll realise
the act wasn't exactly an overwhelming success.
But what the visitor encounters now is a country struggling
valiantly to adapt and people who remain remarkably hospitable
in the face of social and economic chaos. Urban Bulgaria,
especially Sofia, is much changed.
Of course, what high inflation means for visitors with stronger
currencies (that's most of you), is that the ski and beach
resorts are ridiculously cheap. And you don't need wads of
cash to appreciate Bulgaria's dramatic mountains, haven-like
monasteries, churches, mosques, Roman and Byzantine ruins,
and the excellent coffee you'll be offered wherever you go.
Full country name: Republic of Bulgaria
Area: 110,912 sq km
Population: 7.97 million
Capital City: Sofia (pop 1.1 million)
People: 85% Bulgarian, 9.5% Turkish, 4.5% Roma
Languge: Bulgarian, Turkish, Romany
Religion: 85% Bulgarian Orthodox, 13% Muslim
Government: Democracy
Head of Government: President Georgi Purvanov
GDP: US$34.9 billion
GDP per capita: US$1,510
Annual Growth: 2.5%
Inflation: 5.9%
Major Industries: Food processing, machine and metal building,
electronics, chemicals, textiles, ferrous and nonferrous metals
Major Trading Partners: Italy, Germany, Turkey, Greece, Russia,
USA
Member of EU: no
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