karst in Turkey/Bulgaria/Romania

[ian mckenzie]

Am planning a holiday to Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and am wondering where the best surface karst can be found within a half-day of the road.  Tough one to search on the internet...

 

[jarvist]

Not much help perhaps, but a little bit to go on in a trip report to Romania from ten years ago:
http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/romania/romania.php
http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/caving/romania/photos.php

The people who went from London are still around, and might have further memories / contacts.

 

[sluka]

Am planning a holiday to Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania

All countries are quite large, so it depends on your trip plan. What I know in Turkey is Manavgat valey with cave Altin Besik - accesed by car, Tinaztepe Magarasi, too accesed by car. Both are turist caves, but the cars around is interesting. There are large lakes which water penetrated 50-70 km to springs e.t.c. Mountain karst is really interesting, etc.

Roumania - karst of Muntii Apuseni - Sura Mare, Scarisoara, ...

Hungary - caves in Budapest - very interesting thermal karst, thermal pools in caves Miskolc-Tapolca, Agtelek-Josvafo on north, ...

 

[Sofia caver]

Links from Bulgaria

North Bulgaria

http://climbingguidebg.com/cdb.php?f=regioninfo&idRegion=41&lang=en

http://www.how-to-rock-climb.com/archives/devetashka-cave-bulgaouthria/

http://www.obekti.tourism-bg.net/22.2_pechera_bacho_kiro.html

South Bulgaria

http://www.tourism-bg.net/obekti/88.1_trigradsko_jdrelo.html

 

[Pitlamp]

There is a British caver who runs a guest house in Bulgaria - I think you can find his website by Googling on "The Rocking Chair". If this fails - and you'd like to follow this up - P.M. me and I'll sort it out.

 

[Pitlamp]

H'm - I tried Googling that and it's not specific enough. I did find the website though:

http://www.the-rocking-chair-ltd.com

 

[langcliffe]

The BCA Librarian may be able to help you. Her contact details may be found at http://caving-library.org.uk

 

[cavermark]

All countries are quite large, so it depends on your trip plan. What I know in Turkey is Manavgat valey with cave Altin Besik - accesed by car, Tinaztepe Magarasi, too accesed by car. Both are turist caves, but the cars around is interesting. There are large lakes which water penetrated 50-70 km to springs e.t.c. Mountain karst is really interesting, etc.

Ditto, those are quite nice day trips with some interesting surface karst around (solution runnels etc). I think the Black sea coast stuff is fairly accessible but haven't been there.