Sinemorets - My Black Sea Visit

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.