Devil's Throat Cave or a damp squib.

The next day we started the return journey to Dobrinishte. The evening before we had looked on the Internet for interesting things to do on the way, slightly off the route was a cave called Devil's Throat Cave. It's website described it as this amazing cave, with one of the largest waterfalls in Bulgaria within it, not to be missed, you know that type of thing. So, off we set all keen and excited, gaily following directions from the satnav. 

The roads started off well enough but then we turned off up this side road which quickly became more and more bumpy, less and less  tarmacked (not sure if that last word is a word, or if it's spelt correctly) and increasingly water logged. Eventually, it got to the point where we couldn't see round a bend, so  I jumped out of the car and ran ahead to see what the road was like and whether we could use it. We couldn't, enough was enough but of course this then meant we had to turn around and do the same trek back, wibbling ( there I go making up words again)  and wobbling all over the place. 

Eventually we got to the cave, hooray! Outside it looked very promising, although all you could see was a door built into the mountainside, there were food and craft stalls all around and a proper car park. Tourists were milling about and this seemed the place to be. 

We tried to take the dogs in but that wasn't happening, this time a man came up and told us , "No" waggling his finger and gesturing to the dogs. So, we decided to do the visit in two shifts, with David and I going first. 

Well, I tell you it is a bit of a non event! It sounds quite promising as you go in as you can hear water 

thundering down and as you make your way along the very dark path, you expect at every turn that 

the waterfall will come into view, it doesn't! Maybe, to be fair we might have gone at the wrong time of the year, but I don't think so as we didn't even see a trickle and yet the sound effects were good. Mysterious! 

Just inside the cave was a mini cave cut out of the rock with this interesting figure carved on the wall. 

After a long walk you come to some very steep stairs which lead you higher and higher up, until you can see daylight glistening through an opening in the top. 

You exit through this opening and you can actually see water running down the mountainside from the outside, and that was that. 

Lucky David, he got to do it twice!  He  went back with our daughter as I looked after the dogs.