IF MURGAVETS GRAND HOTEL IS YOUR CHOICE FORA SUMMER VACATION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO WALK ABOUTTHE LEGENDARY MOUNTAIN AND MAY BE EVEN FOLLOW THESTEPS OF THE MYTHICAL SINGER ORPHEUS. MOUNTAINGUIDES ARE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR HIKING NEEDS.DURING THE SUMMER SEASON ALL THE GUESTS OF THEHOTEL WILL BE OFFERED THE FOLLOWING EXCURSIONSAND ENTERTAINMENTS YAGODINSKA CAVE / THERE AREABOUT 140 CAVES AND KARST FORMS FOUNDED IN THEDISTRICT OF IAGODINSKA CAVE. THE CAVE ISELECTRICIVATED AND PASSABLE / . THE YAGODINSKACAVE IS THE PEARL IN THE CROWN OF THE RHODOPIMOUNTAINS. IT IS SITUATED NEAR BUYNOVSKA RIVERAND IS A PART OF THE UNIQUE KARST OF BUYNOVSKOGORGE. IT IS 10 KM LONG AND 5 STORIES TALL, WITHMANY LABYRINTHS AND ABYSSES INSIDE. ELECTRICLIGHTS MAKE THE MYSTERIOUS FORMATIONS DRAPERIES,PIPE LIKE STALACTITES, CAVE PEARLS, LEOPARDSSKIN AND HANGING STALACTONE VISIBLE ALONG WITHMANY OTHERS. AN IRON STAIRCASE LEADS TO A HALLNAMED RAZLOMNA WHERE THE REAL BOTTOM OF THEUNDERGROUND RIVER IS COVERED WITH HUGE BLOCKS.THE UPPER FLOOR WAS WELL KNOWN TO ANCIENTENEOLOITHIC INHABITANTS / 14 13 CENTURY BEFORECHRIST / , SIGNS FROM THEM WERE FOUND NEAR THE 30METERS ABYSS. IF YOU WISH YOU CAN VISIT THEENEOLOITHIC DWELLINGS, WHICH ARE SITUATED 10 MINFROM THE ARTIFICIAL ENTRANCE OR THE DEVILSBRIDGE / ROCK FORMATION /.................................45 KM BACHKOVOMONASTERY BACHKOVO MONASTERY RANKS SECOND ONLY TORILA MONASTERY BOTH WITH REGARD TO SIZE, ANDARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE. IT IS SITUATED 30 KM.FROM PLOVDIV IN BACHKOVO VILLAGE. ACCORDING TOTHE HISTORIANS IT WAS FOUNDED DURING BYZANTINESLAVERY IN 1083. ITS FOUNDERS ARE TWO GEORGIANBROTHERS GRIGORII AND APASII BAKURIANI. IN HISFIEFS, GRIGORII BUILT A MONASTERY, DEVOTED TO THEWOMAN MOTHER AND CALLED IT PETRICHKI. THEMONASTERY HAD A RAPID HISTORY. IT WAS ATTACKEDAND ROBBED MORE THAN ONCE. ITS BLOOM WAS DURINGTHE 13TH CENTURY, MORE PRECISELY DURING THE REIGNOF TZAR IVAN ALEXANDER / THE SECOND CHUR