When we left Romania,  we only crossed the Danube and docked in Ruse, Bulgaria overnight.   In the morning we joined an all day tour to a world heritage village,  Arabanasi, where we visited a 500 year old orthodox church.   Unfortunately we couldn’t photograph the inside frescos which covered the walls.

We also visited a house museum there,  typical of the village.

We then go to a wonderful overlook of the town Veliko Tarnovo

We docked in Vidin the next day but the rainy weather kept us from seeing much of the scenery.   We traveled over an hour by bus in fog,  but saw very little of a Rocky fortress Belogradchik.  Emmett walked up a bit,  despite the rain but the view is the rocks was obscured by the clouds

Back on ship,  a Bulgarian folk dance youth ensemble performed for us.