The hot mineral water is perfectly clean. You need to keep it in an open bottle and all the odour from natural gases goes away completely.

I like how you guys give us a different perception of what our city feels like. We've gotten so used to it, that most of us don't even notice all the beautiful details. We never stop to think about the gardening, nor the fountains or the coffee. Glad you guys liked it. BTW, the white dip is called Katuk (Kat-uck). It's not really a dip, more like a side haha

I believe Bulgaria is also the only country where you can find a catholic church, orthodox church, a synagogue and a mosque on the same street in the centre of the capital. Thank you for your video ❤

Sofia in its central districs is simply amazing. It has the nicest, chillest vibe, the architecture, the murals, the history are so rich. There are parks, there are coffeeshops, taverns, restaurants. Its nothing like most big cities where the central part is usually super busy and fast-paced. However, outside of the city centre it is not so nice. The more remote neighbourhoods are mostly filled with commie blocks and the infrastructure (sidewalks, streets, etc) is less well-maintained. But to be honest, most of them are getting renovated and modernized as we speak so the city is trending upwards fast. Glad you guys enjoyed!

Despite that I am born and I live in Sofia, I highly recommend Plovdiv city. This is one of the oldest cities in the world, over 8000 years old!

I was fully positively surprised by Sofia's Beauty and etc., by my visit there in 2023 Spring. Many Greetings from your neighboors #GRE

From the bottom of my heart i wanna say thank you for showing my beauty homeplace to the world❤❤❤ I love Bulgaria and especially Sofia more than everything. There`s no place like home! God bless you guys ❣❣❣

man I need to get out of the states

Love Sofia and all of Bulgaria! Great vlog, as usual! John & Bev

Great presentation! Go to Varna, Plovdiv and Veliko Tarnovo, they are all historical old and also modern cities :)

The best presentation of Sofia. Perhaps, the first clip of tourists who know so much about the history of the city and Bulgaria. And yes. Sofia has a lot of history. Thank you for representing my hometown as it really is.

It's heartwarming to hear so many compliments for your hometown. Thank you.

One of the best representations of the city, thank you! I live in that part of town and to see those places all green and shiny gave me such a warm feeling, I hope the spring comes soon :)

Excellent, Bravo! By the way, the hot spring water tastes weird only when hot!

Thanks for the fun time.✈🇧🇬

Finnaly,my country is getting recognition Thank you for your visit!

Well it's about 2:23am in jamaica 🇯🇲..... this is so crazy. I was researching on a medication manufactured in that country. so I started to look up company country and BOOM 💥 that how I find you're videos I Learned about a country that I don't have no ideaabout. Very educational video.

And we have a mountain in the city. Next time come visit Vitosha, it's an incredible national park. Also, you will love Plovdiv, Veliko Tarnovo, Ruse, Varna, Burgas...

You must check Plovdiv next time. It is most ancient city in Europe. Please go there and i promised you that you will be amazed from the beauty and history of this town.

I just spent some time in Bulgaria last week and was blown away by how beautiful it is. The food is also amazing

Sofia never occupied by the Greeks.

It’s called not Sofià , but Sòfia !

I live in Bulgaria! It's an amazing country! I am from Bulgaria too!

Sofia is great. I only spent a couple of days there a few years ago and looks like you guys managed to see a lot more than I did! I just remember any taxi ride being a near death experience 😂 Great video guys. Steve & Helen.

5:00 not every water has a good taste and can be drunk right away. With mineral water, you take it with bottles, open them and leave them a couple of days to ventilate. Then it's very nice and good for the health. My family did that for about 30 years until they destroyed the building in Varna...

Next time you come to Bulgaria you should stay in Plovdiv. Its the 5th oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. Its beautiful and full of history and I'm positive you'll love it!

Guys, thank you so much for representing my country in such a sweet and nice way. I've literally watched the whole video with a smile on my face. Thank you!

Glad you enjoyed Sofia. It’s a beautiful, interesting place and as you mentioned very reasonably priced.

You were probably around Lion's bridge with the lion statues around if you remained with the middle eastern impression, a lot of refugees in that area. Thanks for visiting our country.

Amazing video with a positive vibe about my hometown Sofia! Thank you!

I love it how appreciative you guys are, genuine Bulgarians are distinctly hospitable and thus happy when the visitors like their stay. Btw, Sofia is certainly not the nicest city in Bulgaria, just so you know, and I've lived her for 25 years now, I should know what I'm talking about :D

Welcome back!😊

My wife and I are looking to adopt from Bulgaria. Using YT to learn what I can about the country. We will need to take a few trips there during this process. Thanks for the video!

Thank you for the wonderful representation of my city🎉🎉 Best regards🎉

Thank you for visiting our country❤ you guys are the only persons who I love😊 I'm glad you like our country 💕

Nice job, guys :) As born in Sofia, this video is fine for me.

really happy that u guys liked it here. :) Hope some more ppl like u come and take a good impression of us because we are a lot more than "popular opinions on bulgarians" . Thank you guys, i think you should consider taking a trip to Plovdiv and during the summer definetely somewhere at the coast of black sea!

Thank you for visiting our country, it had a truly great history and thank you for visiting us!

The coffee shop you showed first, is actually my favourite! I don't live in Sofia, (I live in Plovdiv - you should definately visit it too!) so each time I visit I try to find time for at least a quick coffee stop :)

It's nice to see my home town with the eyes of a foreigners. I'd love, you enjoyed your stay in Bulgaria. Welcome back.

Just one slight correction - the lifestyle is affordable only to foreigners. For comparison - the amount of money a doctor in the US gets per year is the same amount a bulgarian doctor gets in about 10 years. When most people here pay their rent, bills, groceries, vehicle maintenance/fuel, they have almost nothing left to ,,treat themselves,,. (especially in Sofia)

What a beautiful city. Thanks for sharing.

Looks great brother 🙏❤️

Bulgaria is worth visiting it!

Great video!

I live in Bulgeria and it’s fantastic for about all my life!❤ ty for visiting Sofia! My parents have an Airbnb there 😊

Perfect, deabia aștept filmări și păreri din România. Va urmăresc de când plănuiam călătoria în Florida, multe dintre plaje și locuri au fost inspirate de la voi, iar acum ve îți voi în tara mea. Foarte tare, sper ca a fost totul în regula

lovely track!!

Great! - Thanks Guys - this is pretty sweet...

Glad that you liked my city, I saw it with the eyes of a tourist 😊

Thank you for viewing Bulgaria with your hearts. Sofia changed a lot and our important economical capital but also Plovdiv our cultual capital and Varna our maritime one. You can travel from one end to the other maybe 17km in Slofia and pay only 0,80€ with the cool and clean metro. Do not expect smiles like in Spain, but there are luckily still cool people. Yes, food in BG is so tasty because it is a very arable land and used to even feed the Soviets during commism times. The beaches are maybe not like the Greek, but still very fine sand or clean water or rocky beaches in the north but with very nice views. The ski resorts are good. Bansko is trying to bring more digital nomads because you can find very cheap flats, cheap internet, relaxed vibes, do hiking if you like it because the mountain and nature are super. In Melnik, which is not so far away try divine wine and see their "pyramids" as it is the smallest city in the country. Bulgaria is just so old and diverse and will depend on what you are looking for. Yes, we are after Iceland in spa and have so many places for spa tourism also for curing skin problems. We also have the Danube small islands for kayaking and can go on and on talking about it. The tap water is tasty and especially the one in the mountains or if you spot it with our "modern" roads. You must try the one in the monasteries. It is usually very cold, but very nice. The one in Sofia is very hot because it contains more sulphate minerals and smells like rotten eggs, but very healthy. Also, we have a very old Ottoman mosque, the 3rd largest synagogue in Europe, a catholic church and of course Orthodox Alexander Nevski because of the Russian liberation from the Ottomans. We were with the Nazis in the wars, but still saved the Jews. Wacky history. Summers can get really warm in summer (not as much as Greece) in Plovdiv for example but then you have so many parks to escape the heat because Bulgarians have a strong park culture. Many cities have at least 1 big park, where people gather and just chilll. We have many trees, mountains because of the rain and sunshine and nice landscapes if you get a car or take the (lousy) trains but will see lavander or sunflower landscapes. The rose is important to us. You can even buy rose shampoo, rose oil to hydrate your skin and used in many French perfumes. Of course, ugly Soviet buildings. We are between the East and the West and therefore will find very strong differences. Our language is South Slavic but with a more old Hellenic syntax but Russians will understand it 50% maybe. I mean, you can imagine.....in the Balkans history is very complex. Finally, yes we are very proud of our sour milk, not yoghurt as it is called in Bulgarian because okay Greek one has much better marketing but the difference in the taste is enormous. And yes, we use it and consume it quite a lot. If you have visited a BG supermarket or smaller stores it is almost impossible not to spot it. There is and will always be a huge kiselo mlyako section. The origin of yoghurt is very debatale.

Sofia is beautiful, clean, great street art and lovely friendly people. God bless them.

Born & raised in Sofia and I love this video 🫶🥰

Thank you❤you guys are awesome...

I liked the video, but honestly, this is perhaps the 5th video about Sofia, with the title "this is not what we expected" ! Why this title ? What did you expect ?

Wow...I got goosebumps 😂 Fun stuff is I live in the city, well closer to the mountains, but it's super interesting, as others notes, how you guys perceive the city as visitors and how we, as residents do. Thanks for the great video and warm comments. I guess we need to be a bit more forgiving and a bit more loving to our city.

With every tourist lost forever in a twisting shady side street, Sofia's history grows a little deeper and the local donner kebap shops become a bit better stocked.

Lived in Sofia from 1987 til 1992 ... so many memories.

I was born and raised in Sofia. Thank you 🙃

Bulgaria has the most of mineral water 💧 in the world 🌍 most of 700 different tips of different mineral water 💧

wow your video is really amazing

I'm Bulgarian and I'm glad more and more tourists are visiting our small country. The video made me so happy. Thank you for appreciating the beauty and history of Sofia.💓

Wow... you guys saw like 8% of Sofia... and still enjoyed it good for you .:)

my home town❤🇧🇬❤ София,България

Like every other city in the world, there is so much more to see. Vitosha street is a big no-no, but the hidden gems are numerous.

I’m visiting from London next week. I can’t wait.

as a native, currently living in Sofia, I'm impressed and I also want to visit :D

Come to Plovdiv You will see more historical things and old town close to the City centre

I live in here. Its SO BEAUTIFUL AND COOL❤️

If I may suggest,visit Plovdiv, the oldest city in Europe.Plovdiv airport is nearby.All the best.

nice video!

The vodeo is very nice.If you have time visit the oldest city in EU Plovdiv-Bulgaria 😊

fascinating country with rich history and traditions, i'm going to visit Tsarevets and Trapezitsa one day. best wishes from Poland

Good stuff 😃

I'm a Bulgarian. My brother used to live next to the best duner kebab shop i've ever been to. Its one of the best things i have eaten. I generally hate Sofia as a city, but that place is amazing.

I hope you have the chance to visit Plovdiv in the future. From an American perspective, Sofia is top tier in terms of "amenities" compared to the other major cities, but it also feels quite Western! Plovdiv has this strange way of giving you city but with a "Bulgarian" feel. ❤

Some greats sights - in a city that's growing in influence in tourism.

Nice!

"Drob Sarma" (the liver dish) also my fave. Mhmmmm.... Starvin already.

Sofia has NEVER been occupied by the Greeks.

Come to Plovdiv, It`s the OLDEST CITY in Europe ;)

Hey, I am Bulgarian and you just visited the capital :) You ought to visit other parts of the country to get the real feel, preferably not cities (they are miserable) but the countryside and nature spots :)

Hello from Bulgarian 🇧🇬

I live right by the women's market. Back in the day it was the Jewish neighborhood. It's true there's a middle eastern street. Not far there's also a Chinese street ( Chinese stores). It's actually rare but definitely interesting. In the area there are many international people. In the mornings you can hear Greek, Romanian,Trukish, Russian, Spanish, Italian, and Spanish. It is one of the most vivid areas of the city.

A correction, Sófia is the name!

Thanks ❤

Plovdiv is a must visit if you like Bulgaria

@ON World Travel, just a small correction, oldest city in Europe is Plovdiv not Sofia, it is in Bulgaria as well.

tysm that u go to my country i am from bulgeria

,,Serdica /Sofia/ is my Rome" Constantine the Great - Emperor of Rome . There is a reason behind that famous quote Bulgaria is an amazing country with a unique nature, culture, and really, very ancient history . 24 hours in that country is like ...a glimpse to the earth from the moon

Born and raised here, walk it daily. But you make me want to pay more attention next time 🤣

Both U Guys r Awesome. Great Explanation, I Love it. > Toronto, Canada

welcome to our beautiful city. just a small remark: population is about 2 millions nowadays

You guys did a pretty good job considering the time you spent in the city. Btw "Vitoshe" pedestrian zone is pronounced 'VEEtosha' Other glitches mentioned. Thankfully you missed the best of it. Too late to say please don't tell anyone about this place. It's already changing/suffering from the effects tourism popularity.

Great video, Missed the videos, keep them coming Is Bulgaria part of the Schengen already? Cheers

Serdica, currently Sofia, is very old - created in Thracian times (Northern neighbours of the Ancient Greeks). A bunch of the Roman emperors were in fact of Thracian descent and Constantine The Great famously called Serdica "his Rome."

Hey, i would really love you visiting Polish Gdańsk, that city is so wonderful, i started loving your videos and i wish you all good luck :)

With all the traveling you two have done- what are the places that are in your top 3 favorite?

This video made me a proud Bulgarian

Im very impressed with the bulgarian meatballs and salad. Great local food. Far far better than that muck from McDo. I wouldnt even give a stray dog on the street that but id give it a treat of a bit of mm y delicious Bulgarian meatball. Ive always loved street dogs and always had one attach itself to us in India, a beautiful kitten too like a little leopard.