Rila Monastary

Turns out it was a big accident involving three cars. They were letting more cars through in the opposite direction than ours, I think because they didn't want cars queueing up in the tunnel which was just after the accident.

So we made it to Rila, although much later than we had planned. I managed to navigate through the Bulgarian language enough to allow us to stay for the night in the Rila Monastary itself. However, had not planned well enough and we had only gotten 50 euros changed into Bulgarian Leva and after paying for the room we still had to find some dinner. We tried in a couple of restaurants but they wouldn't take visa so we just decided to find out what we could get with our 30 remaining leva. Turns out that food is really cheap here and we had a full restaurant meal for less than 20 leva (1 euro is about 2 leva).



Staying in the monastary is pretty cool. The Church of the Nativity is right in the middle of the monastary and our room is just on the outside edge. Its all beautifully painted with frescos and with geometric patterns/lines. I'm looking forward to exploring it all tomorrow morning :)