Bulgaria..

These pictures are from the 22 hour train ride from Istanbul to Bucharest, Romania. It wasn't as exciting as it looks.

This was one of the first things I saw in Bulgaria. There were many small, po-dunk, farming communities. The fog added to the depressing feeling.

One of the bigger cities we went through. There really wasn't much to look at. We did see livestock roaming through some of the towns.

AH! Finally we got to the mountains, which at first still looked dismal and foreboding. Oh well, it was an adventure.

The view from my small window. We were traveling with a man from New Zealand. He teaches English in Istanbul and was on a visa run for his break. A visa run is what a lot of foreigners have to do once every 3 months to renew their visa so they don't get arrested.

Ok, so Bulgaria didn't end up being that bad. Once we got into the mountains I spent a lot of time looking out the window. However, 22 hours with NO food was not much fun. We were happy to get to Bucharest, until we found out that there was pretty much no where cheap to sleep. We had to stay in a hotel at 30 euros a person, per night. Aaron slept on the floor and paid 10 euros. We got up super early after staying the night in Bucharest and got on a train to Brasov in the mountains of Transylvania.