Camping Sakar Hills
Camping Sakar Hills was created, developed and is still managed by the Jeffes family: Martin, Shirley and their son Matt. It is in the far south-eastern corner of Bulgaria very near the borders with both Greece and Turkey.
This is a brief summary of our many days spent at Camping Sakar Hills, motorhoming and cycling over the last fifteen years.
For 132 pictures of life in Bulgaria, centred on Camping Sakar Hills and the surrounding border country, click: Memories of Bulgaria.
A most excellent guide to this whole area from Thracian times to the present day is Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova's book, simply called 'Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe'. Barry's review of her book for the Guardian is available here and there is a Kindle edition of the book available from Amazon for £8.73. The image taken from the book is of a Pomak bride and her escort during her three-day wedding ceremony in the village of Draginovo, Bulgaria.
For an account of six bicycle rides in the immediate vicinity of Camping Sakar Hills, click: Cycling in South-east Bulgaria.
For a detailed account (with a map and a link to photographs) of our 8-day, 7-hotel, 3-country bicycle ride in the heat of summer 2019. click: A Three-Country Cycle Ride.
A most excellent guide to this whole area from Thracian times to the present day is Bulgarian writer Kapka Kassabova's book, simply called 'Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe'. Barry's review of her book for the Guardian is available here and there is a Kindle edition of the book available from Amazon for £8.73. The image taken from the book is of a Pomak bride and her escort during her three-day wedding ceremony in the village of Draginovo, Bulgaria.
For an account of six bicycle rides in the immediate vicinity of Camping Sakar Hills, click: Cycling in South-east Bulgaria.
For a detailed account (with a map and a link to photographs) of our 8-day, 7-hotel, 3-country bicycle ride in the heat of summer 2019. click: A Three-Country Cycle Ride.