I couldn’t
sleep all night because of all the excitement that was waiting for me on the
next day and also because I was already late in packing up my things for the
five days on the black sea coast of Bulgaria at the beautiful Village of
Sinemorets, located south east of Bulgaria, near to Turkey where river Veleka
flows in the sea.
My friend
and neighbor Tatyana was already by my door with a coffee at 2 am in the
morning because we had our flight at 5 am. She had booked the same flight as me
unknowingly as she was flying back to Varna, another sea coast in Bulgaria. As we
live little far away from the city center in Berlin, It was obvious that we had
to leave at 3 am latest towards the Airport Berlin Schönefeld. I was already enjoying her travel company and
we chatted about some random things.
Crossing
through all the flight checkups, we headed towards the Easyjet , one of the
cheap flight organizers in Europe. We flew towards east, crossing Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Hungary and part of Serbia and finally landed on Sofia, the capital
city of Bulgaria. I already felt home seeing all the hills around the city,
exactly like in Kathmandu. I headed towards the Passport control counter, where
woman saw my passport and asked what am I doing in Bulgaria? My Tatyana helped
to translate saying that I am visiting few friends and heading to the black
sea. Because of her I wasted very less time in getting through the immigration.
Tatyana had
already planned something for her evening with her family so I had to bid a
short farewell to her because she had to take her bus towards Varna as soon as
possible. I went outside of Airport and waited for Ani to arrive. It felt very
nice to see her after a month after our last visit together to an Arctic Monkeys
Concert in Zitadelle , Berlin. Our bus from Sofia left for Sinemorets at 10 pm;
we had plenty of time to go to shop and eat few things on the way. I finally
bought my swimming shorts. I was very ready now to go and jump into the black sea,
although I hardly knew how to swim. We went shortly to her home to greet her
parents and her grandmother, after packing up her things we headed towards the
bus station. We then took our bus
towards Sinemorets at 10pm in the evening. We headed towards south crossing Plovdiv and
few other Bulgarian towns such as Burgas, Sozopol , Tsarevo, Ahtopol , arriving
finally in Sinemorets at 5 am in the morning. I enjoyed my night bus ride very
much. It was my second night bus ride in Europe after my visit to Paris two
years back. We arrived in the beautiful village of Sinemorets just before the
sunrise. I saw the sea for the first time in my life, never been to one. My
heart pumped very fast. I cannot describe in any words how beautiful it was. And
timing from my point of view was also very nice, just before the sunrise. I had
never seen such a big blue thing in my life. It had no ending; it just went on
and on. I remembered exactly on this very moment how Ernest Hemingway described
the Sea on this book “The Old Man and the Sea”. We climbed through a small hill
on the top of the sea. I could hear the sound of the sea grow bigger and
bigger. Slowly the sea turned red with the color of rising sunrise. The picturesque
was so beautiful, that it would stay in my eyes and mind for the rest of my
life. We did manage to pose ourselves in front of the camera to catch the very
moment forever.
We booked a
hotel called “Dayana Family Hotel” just across the sea. It was called family
hotel perhaps because it was run by the family. We arrived just too early
because we couldn’t check in before 2pm in the day. We had plenty of time. We decided to go to the
beach with our luggage. My Lacoste shoes were completely full of sands. I felt
quite bad for it. Sun was getting warm and warm. We had no other choice than to
change the clothes at the sea. I was a little shy because I did not want to wear
my beach shorts getting completely naked that’s why I tried using my old Nepali
technique of wearing shorts on the top of boxer and pulling the boxer out
through the legs. Yep, it was not a very good idea. I tore my underwear of
course. Ani on the other hand was
rolling on the sand floor laughing at my misery. We did manage to leave our luggage at the
entrance of the hotel till 2 pm so that we could just head back to the sea. On
the hotel there was a guy who had a lipstick, long hair, changing the music at
the hotel bar. No one said anything to him. I just made a hypothesis that he
was the owner of the hotel and since it is a family hotel, mother stayed behind
the counter, father checked the staffs and general things, and Mr/Miss Dayana
(I don’t even know if that’s his/her name but I made fun of him calling him
with that name because it sounded quite nice and worked perfect to his/her
outer look). We sat beside the bar and enjoying our coffee listening to very
nice chillstep which was running on the background, when Mr/Miss Dayana ruined
the occasion by playing some bullshit music. Thank to her/him.
Ani was very excited about getting brown, the
color that I got by my birth and was very eager to stay on the sunlight. I knew
already that I was going to turn purple and black. Sunlight always scared me
because my mother and my sister Anjali always made a big issue when I was
flying kite at the top of my house facing directly to the sunlight because they
always said I look horrible purple. I guess they were right; anyone would look
horrible with purple color. While we were on beach I was so eager to just go to
the air conditioned room of the hotel so that I could just sleep in a cool room
for few hours. I counted each and every second on my clock. Not even a cold
drink at the beach bar next to the beach helped me fight the heat of the sun. Finally
it was 2 pm and we rushed to the hotel all exhausted and slept for few hours.
After few
hours we decided to head back to the sea and swim. I was scared to jump into
the water but I had to, seeing all tiny kids jumping and doing front and back
strokes. I jumped and learned how to move a bit. I felt very happy that I could
swim a bit. And I did try my first Kebapcheta for this year at the beach bar.
It was not very good as the one that I tried a year back in Vitosha but never
the less it was all right. I can never compare any Beer to Burgasko , the best
beer in Bulgaria. I drank quite a lot of beer during my whole stay. But let’s
not bring beer into the blog.
Two old women
next to us in the beach were talking about some mysterious man who swam in the
water for 12 hrs at least with his white cap and white t-shirt, whom I saw with
my own eyes at the far end of the water, swimming. He was there by the way all
the time in water during our whole stay. I can never figure out what he ate
during his whole swim duration. Anyways I have heard about Mermaid but I pictured
them only as a woman or a girl, but saw male form of mermaid with my own eyes. It
was very much unbelievable. I am not trying to build up a story here or trying
to tell a fake story because Ani is a witness as well. He never came out of the
water and was always swimming. He might still be swimming.
There was a
hotel next to the beach, called “Bella Vista Club”, a four star hotel which I called
“The Mental Institution”. On that hotel the party was always on, I mean the
children party where children would dance and shout “uo uo “almost all day
long. I cannot figure out how people could pay 100 Euro a night to let their
children go “uo uo” and sleep in that environment. Meanwhile it was also called
art hotel where suddenly people start playing flute and piano at the middle of
freaking night, you heard it right at 00 am in the night, where people put alarm
to wake up and play Beethoven. What an art , isn’t it?
The best
part about Sinemorets is the food. I always adore Bulgarian food. Every evening after a swim, we visited local
restaurants to grab a nice dinner. Red Rock Café is the best amongst all of
them including all the rock music they played. I enjoyed listening to AC/DC,
Led Zeppelin and even Nickelback. We did
manage to take few pictures.
Every
morning at the hotel, the breakfast was provided to all the guests. It was full
of Buchtiski , Salami, Bulgarian Cheese, Watermelon , Coffee , juice and so on.
It was quite good. The only thing that was not very good was Mr/Miss Dayana
playing romantic song of Enrique Iglesias Hero for about 10 times during the
breakfast. I guess she/he liked it a lot and wanted to make a surrounding
romantic as well.
The other
beach where river Veleka met Sea was from my point of view the best one.
Because of its picturesque, it was windy and never gave a feeling that the sun
was very hot. The only thing is that, I never got courage to go and dive into its
water because the water current was quite high and the water was very deep
within few steps of getting inside.
On our last
night of our stay at Sinemorets, we discovered a hidden beach bar, walking through
the starry night above us along the beach. The bar and the place were so
beautiful but it had no one. I was just surprised that how a beautiful place
like that could could be not seen. I ordered a very tasty minty drink which I had
never tried before, I enjoyed it a lot. We stayed there for quite some time and
decided to head back to the hotel as we had to leave for Sofia early in the
morning. Oh yes! We did hear “Ou Ou” and Flute at the night on our way back. To
make the time even better, Mr/Miss Dayana was all ready on his/her outfit to
hit some party with his male friends who were all dressed up like her/him on
their skirt, long boots, and their top fitted perhaps with oranges and apples
inside their bras. The music went on and on.. So will my memories of the
paradise on earth at a small village of Sinemorets.
