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Darmon_Richter
 
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 |  |  | Balkan Ghost Town, Bulgaria, April 2012
< on 4/11/2012 10:08 PM >
|  | | | At the risk of pushing the term 'urban' to its widest possible limits, here's my report from a remote ghost town in the Balkan Mountains.
The village is at an altitude of around 700m, and the views are incredible - as you'll see from the pictures. There are probably about 15 houses here in total, split between two small clusters roughly 200m apart from one another. A few are still owned and have padlocked doors - most though, you can just walk straight into.
In most of the towns and urban areas here you'll find that abandoned buildings are looted and trashed within days of being left vacant. Here though, many of the houses have survived over a decade, with televisions, tools and other furnishings still in place. The reason for this is that the village is just so remote - it's miles and miles from the nearest occupied hamlet, and there's no way you're getting up here without either 4-wheel drive, or a very determined donkey. 
A few of the houses are already falling down, with collapsed roofs and rotten wooden floors. Some of these are now being used as storage space for random tools and agricultural equipment - including one derelict house which was completely full of wooden beehives!
Anyway, hope you enjoy the photos... if you want to see some more, along with a brief introduction to Bulgarian history and politics(!!!), then check out my blog... http://bohemian-bl...an-ghost-town.html
The black and white sheets pinned to the wall here are the traditional Bulgarian way of honouring the dead... each one shows the face of someone who died in this house at some point.
I couldn't resist throwing this last one in - it's an old Soviet truck which we found parked at the bottom of the mountain. There are hundreds of these old behemoths still in use... this one seems to have been patched up dozens of times, and is now being used for logging.
Bohemian Urbex: Urban Decay & other curiosities. |
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idahoUE
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Man I hope its not a fucking samsquanch, I hate those fucking bastards.
| | Re: Balkan Ghost Town, Bulgaria, April 2012
<Reply # 1 on 4/20/2012 7:08 PM >
| | | | Great spot love the stash book with the cut out pages in pic 12 at least I figure that's what it is.
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Darmon_Richter
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Eastern Europe
| | | Re: Balkan Ghost Town, Bulgaria, April 2012
<Reply # 2 on 4/24/2012 8:04 PM >
| | | | I think so, yeah - the hard cover was missing and there's a hole through the middle pages, so they were obviously hiding something good inside!
Bohemian Urbex: Urban Decay & other curiosities. |
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hatsumi
   
| | | Re: Balkan Ghost Town, Bulgaria, April 2012
<Reply # 3 on 4/24/2012 8:42 PM >
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nice to see something completely different....looks like a cool place to shoot
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Jack Strathmore
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Adrian, MI
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Good friends bail you out of jail....true friends will be with you saying, "Damn, that was fun!
| |  | Re: Balkan Ghost Town, Bulgaria, April 2012
<Reply # 4 on 4/24/2012 8:48 PM >
| | | | Posted by hatsumi
nice to see something completely different....looks like a cool place to shoot
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+1, great place!
Jack Strathmore
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Uzi-
 
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Central Nebraska
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| | Re: Balkan Ghost Town, Bulgaria, April 2012
<Reply # 5 on 4/27/2012 4:53 PM >
| | | | Awesome location, that old truck looks like it would make an awesome exploring mobile to get around the rougher parts of a place like this.
Posted by Send4Help
Man... Not even the mods make it to this corner of UER
I feel like I am in ...well... the great plains ;) Posted by willskith Unfortunately, due to overuse of tonemapping, photography was gradually ruined and now stands with halos. |
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