| Bulgaria |
Facts for the Visitor
Visas| US citizen: | No visa required for a 30-day stay. Hotels do required police registration. |
| Japanese citizen: | No visa required for a 30-day stay. Hotels do required police registration. |
| Many people in tourist related industries speak English. Learning the Cyrillic Alphabet is needed to read bus destinations and maps. |
| Cash machines on the Plus / Cirrus / Maestro international networks are on nearly every corner in Sofia and are often found in small towns. |
| US$ 1 = BLV 2 (Bulgarian leva) on September 16, 2002. The leva is locked to the Euro at a rate of BLV 1; = 0.51 €. It is a fully convertible currency to US$ and Euro at a moneychanger or bank. |
| 220V, 50Hz. Electrical outlets are for mainland European parallel round pin plugs. |
| International Certificates of Vaccination are not required. |
| Round bills up. |
| Public telephones take telephone cards. |
| Sofia has 56 kbps connections for BLV 1.50 per hour. |
| European standards. |
| Buses are cheap and slow. Trains service a limited number of destinations. Taxis are metered. Fares are fixed. |
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