Trigrad Gorge

Smolyan · Bulgaria

Trigrad Gorge, Bulgaria
Photo: Evgeni Dinev from Burgas, Bulgaria, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to October
Budget
$
Accessibility
not-accessible
Coordinates
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Trigrad Gorge is a steep limestone canyon in the Western Rhodopes carved by the Trigrad River, with walls rising 300 metres in the narrowest section. The river disappears underground at the Devil's Throat Cave, a cathedral-sized cavern where it falls 42 metres into a chamber before re-emerging 330 metres away. The gorge road passes through tunnels blasted through rock outcrops and offers stopping points directly above the vertical walls.

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