Typical Strandja style house with stone on ground floor and wood used as building material on the first floor. Houses with this type of architecture are scattered throughout the Strandja mountains.

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An old donkey cart in the shade of a tree in the Strandja mountains.

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Horo dancing is a traditional Bulgarian dance practised by young and old. Almost every Bulgarian knows some variety of this dance. This elderly Bulgarian man dances the horo between two Bulgarian women in traditional Strandja costumes.

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Nestinar deep in the forests of the Strandja Mountains. Candles burn in front of icons on an altar.

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These candles were lit in a small chapel in Strandja nature park before Nestinar celebrations in the forest. See www.StrandjaBlog.com for the full story.

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A house built in the style traditional for the Strandja mountains. Cool in Summer, warm in Winter, these houses are an example of traditional architecture.

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The ruins of a Thracian tomb in Strandja Nature Park.

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