BULGARIA Train Trip From Sofia To koprivshtitsa 

Love Bulgaria... many of the stores are small and medium size business or just "mom & pop" stores. They want cash not card... because the card company wants 3%. Only bigger businesses & corporations will take card. Bulgaria is not like corporate America :) Thank you for posting!

Huge tip for Bulgaria, always use cash. There are so many little shops and problems with online payments. A couple went to Rila mountain and wanted to pay for the lift but they were told that there is no internet so the cards don't work. Careful with taxis they are huge scammers , they even scam local people so a tourist is a big catch for them. Always check the prices on the side or maybe online and always order a taxi from an app or from a phone call cause when you go up to a taxi they always try to do something. Public transportation in Sofia is decent thanks to the Metro lines and you can get a card for the whole day for all line for only 4 leva. Things should be written in English but to fight with the challange you can download a translater and use the scan option and it translates it directly.

Koprivchitca is one really nice place with history

When you want to talk in English - try with the younger people. I recommend you to visit Pleven - direct connections with the capital, here is so easy to orient, you need 1 minute to walk to one of the biggest malls in North Bulgaria near the train and bus stations, you don't need to take the city transport to reach the center, there are foreigners because of the Medical University, good restaurants, water cascades are so beautiful during the night, etc. The town is not big but it is not small (about 100 000 people). Almost everywhere you can buy with credit card.

you should also visit ruse, vidin, pleven, stara zagora!

Something not many people do is use Google translate's image translation option. You'll have zero problems with Cyrillic that way 👍

i am from bulgaria , and here you can pay your ticket in the train station by law in every train station but in small viliages like ypu can pay only whith cash, but in 99 of 100 station you can by credit card!

Yeah this is a adventure

You should get a debit card with no foreign transaction fees or ATM fees and then just use an ATM to get cash. It would be the cheapest and easiest way.

The Kamenitsa bus stop, most famous bus stop.

Really enjoyed this debs xx

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Never exchange inside of station and most of those who speak is not in Bulgaria our nation disappears really fast I will be happy to go back to my country after one year

Hello Joel. How easy was it to go back to Sofia. is there a timetable with the bus going back to the trainstation? Thank you

You doing good brother man

Use translation apps with people who don't speak English. The train station in Koprivshtitsa is far from the actual town. You should have asked at the hostel and save yourself trouble. Only way is taxi. Few people go to Koprivshitsa by train

Could you have got $ from the atm at the train station ?

Brother when you take any transport as train or bus 9 there is any ( police check) ? in the station or in the way

There were 4 banks 3 minutes from the station but no one told you and you went where there is nothing. Sorry

At the end when you read the text on the sign that said Kamenitsa - that's actually a brand of beer

He may look disappointed in the thumbnail but I think he really enjoyed it

I always carry cash, always tell this to my children, you never know what can happen when travel 😊, by the way, I'm staying in Sofia, and learned Cirilico so I understand better 🙏🏼

Greetings from Cloudy😂

you can pay evrywhere whith card expect small shops and some tourist attractions! But always take some cash like 20-25 euro - 50 leva for emergancy, and do not exchange money in the airport, you can also use ATM expect euronet which is scam company for ATMs around Europe and some asian places, and dont take a taxi in bulgaria cause they overcharge even locals like me for an example! In sofia we have one of the best public transport system i think even in europe, burgas, varna, pazarjik is the same, but in plovdiv 2st largest city my home town public transport is more than awufull!

I've just come back from Sofia and I liked the metro. Like you said, it's quite easy to use. I stayed near the Hadzhi Dimitar station and purchased a 3-day travel card to get around, which made things even easier. I thought it was very cheap. The only thing that confused me is you have to scan on the LEFT side of the barrier and not the right. I was expecting the wrong one to open. People looked at me like I was nuts! Lol. All the time I was there I didn't notice any ticket inspectors on the trains or buses. Sorry to hear you had that problem with the credit cards.

Good video

OmGod 😂 thats ismy Bulgaria

There are TV screens above the cash desks on the -1 level that are supposed to flash Bulgarian and English for all trains.

" Everything is written in Bulgaria "😅 Honest mistake, but it's actually bulgarian Nice vid 👍

First rule of travel. Always have cash. In the central bus station 2 minutes away from the train station there is a currency exchange bureau. Why no one told you beats me. You went too far. Yes, the signage in the train station used to be English back un the days, but no one bothers these days. Beats me why

Very interesting impressions on Bulgarian, indeed their Cyrillic alphabet would make it challenging to understand. I would have thought more Bulgarians would know English, you used some Italian there!

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bro u would be your guide 😊

Good luck, despite being 'Sofian' I've never been there in years and frankly don't miss it - yet just be carefull about scammers, racists or hot weather.

if you found just traveling through Bulgaria to be inconvenient, you have no idea what im going through living here xD

They should write police in both characters latin and cyrilic.

It's not a great idea to travel in Bulgaria by train.