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{{Infobox Country
|country = Bulgaria
|map = <map lat='42.5' lng='25.5' zoom='6' view='0' float='right' country='Bulgaria' />
|language = Bulgarian
|capital = [[Sofia]]
|hitch = {{very good}}
}}
'''Bulgaria''' is a country in [[Eastern Europe]] bordering [[Romania]], [[Serbia]], [[North Macedonia]], [[Greece]] and [[Turkey]], a member of the [[European Union]] but not yet the Schengen zone. It's a good country for hitchhikers since this was a common way of travelling traveling in socialist times when few people had cars. There are hardly any roads where hitchhiking would be prohibited. Except for a few stretches of true motorway, it is possible to thumb directly on the road and stop passing cars.
[[File:Bulgaria-donkey-hitch.jpg|thumb|left|300px|[[User:Guaka|guaka]] and his donkey hitching towards [[Istanbul]]]]
== Cities ==
* [[Balchik]]
* [[Burgas]]
* [[Hisarya]]
* [[Madara]]
* [[Pavlikeni]]
* [[Plovdiv]]
* [[Ruse]]* [[Sevlievo]], * [[Sofia]]* [[Varna]], * [[Veliko Tarnovo]] [http://bgmaps.com/ Map of Bulgaria]
== Safety ==
[[ImageFile:Dangerzone.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Danger!]]As friendly as they can be, Bulgarian drivers tend not to care too much about usually don't consider small violations of existing road regulations and speed limitsin Bulgaria a big deal. Be careful and avoid standing in areas with a yellow triangle sign, with a filled black circle in the middle - these indicate places with increased concentration of road accidents and are a part of a governmental campaign of the government to improve travel driving safety.
Be wary of thieves - particularly in rural areas, there are many people who see a lone hitchhiker as an opportunity to gain by foul means.
== Border crossing ==
== Phrasebook ==
'''Vocabulary'''
* Hitchhiking - автостоп [av-to-stop]
* High-way Motorway - магистрала [ma-gee-stra-la]
* Petrol station - бензиностанция [ben-zee-no-stan-tsee-ya]
* Ring road - околовръстно (шосе) [o-ko-lo-vrast-no (sho-sse)]
* Русе - Russe
== License plates External links ==You can use the cars' license plates to help you figure out where a driver might be heading* [http://stopbg.com/ The registration code consists site of two letters, followed by four digits and then two more letters. The first two letters indicate the region where the car is registered. By recent law, the letters have been limited only to those that the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet have in commonBG hitch-hikers] (forum, so this should make it easier for foreignerstips, not reading Cyrillicetc.)
== External links Nomadwiki & Trashwiki ==* [http://stopbg.com/ stopbg.comThe site of BG hitch-hikers] – The site of BG hitch-hikers (forum , tips and etc.){{nomadwiki}}
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