Tag: Rhodope in Kardzhali

Chit Kaya is a rock sanctuary in Bulgaria It consists of 50 rock niches in the cliffs above the village of Lisicite. Yet no one has given irrefutable hypothesis what was the purpose of the grooves in the rock, which even today’s climbers could hardly cut down without encountering a bunch of difficulties. How they were made thousands of years Read more...

Girls are turned into stone mushrooms near the village of Beli Plast. At least the legend of the unusual rock formations said so. They are located about a kilometer away from the village on the road between Haskovo and Kardzhali. The mushroom stone formations are 2.5 meters high. Their pink-green shades are due to the mineral composition. According to the legend, Read more...