Caves

Magura Cave

Prehistoric paintings drawn in bat guano.

1–1.5 h

Bacho Kiro cave

30 min–1.5 h

Kozarnika, Dimovo Municipality

A dig that may hold the oldest trace of people in Europe

20–40 min

Saeva dupka cave

A show cave with one hall good enough to hold concerts in

45 min–1.2 h

Uhlovitsa Cave

A staircase cave in the far south Rhodopes, guided only, on the hour

1–1.8 h

Prohodna Cave

A tunnel through a hill with two eye-shaped holes in the roof

20–45 min

The Womb

A rock cleft carved into a womb, lit by the midwinter sun

1.5–2.5 h

Ledenika Cave

Ten halls under the Vrachanski Balkan, iced up in winter

45 min–1.2 h

Devetashka cave

A cave mouth thirty metres high with light falling through the roof

45 min–1.5 h

Duhlata

Bulgaria's longest cave, and one you are not getting into

45 min–2 h

Devil's Throat Cave

A river falls 42 metres into the dark; you climb 301 steps out

45 min–1.2 h

Snezhanka cave

A tiny cave with a Snow White stalagmite, and a steep walk to it

1–1.8 h

Wine Museum

A wine cellar in a cave in Pleven's park

45 min–1.5 h

Yagodinska (cave)

Ten kilometres of cave, of which you walk 1,250 metres

1–1.5 h

Peshterata na Sveta Marina

A cave shrine deep in Strandzha where the sick left tin models of their own organs

45 min–1.5 h