Pure fine sand. High stone poles of bizarre form. Littlely. Quiet and peaceful. This place has some kind of special aura, strong energy. Scientists and mystics argue about the origin of the "driven stones" for 200 years. Excursions are heated by legends and superstitions. An amazing magical place is called in different ways: break the Koman, Dikilitash, Stone Forest.
Stone Forest Hypothesis Appearance
Researchers determine the age of 50 years of age. One of the most common versions of this phenomenon says that there was sometimes the sea here. Then the water went away, and limestone formations remained. Wind and precipitation gave them different forms. Another hypothesis is based on the fact that inside the figure is empty, and therefore it is the remnants of the giant ancient trees, whose trunks have covered the stones. The trees have rotted, and it turned out hollow columns. The height of some reaches 10 m. How deeply go underground is not visible, but they look like they were driven. Many believe that the columns are remnants ancient TempleAnd ufologies insist on their cosmic origin.
Versions a lot. None of them is confirmed, but also not finally refuted. And they are all like the truth.
Magic of stone forest
Conditionally stones are divided into four groups. The first is a few rows of columns, which comes to the thought of the temple. The second is the group "Trees". The third - mounted stone blocks. The fourth is a circle of small stones with a central column. Bulgarians believe that if you get around the whole stone forest, and then enter the circle and make a desire, leaning against the column, then it will surely come true. Is it so, everyone can check himself. Surprisingly the other - from this "magic" circle I do not want to go out. Care and alarms are forgotten. Thoughts clarify. What is it? Power of suggestion or really good energy place?
Stones are all warm. So I want to cuddle with all the body. Excursions do not prohibit, but, on the contrary, it is strongly recommended that way and do. They say very useful for health. Moreover, many figures have their names and "destinations". Giant "Mushroom", a "love" stone with a heart inside, "Soldier", "Elephant", "Waterfall". Based on the "Big Throne" there is a narrow gap. Not everyone manage to crawl through it. And this should be done certainly, because by legend it removes several sins per person. Tempting. Immediately I remember the sin of the vigor. You can boil upstairs and sit on the throne. Also not everyone forces. There are in the valley and a symbol of fertility. Tourists have already dubbed him with a stork, children bringing. Men are shy to hugging him, only with respect to consider and with pleasure photographing. Women to such a symbol and flax, because by reference it should lead to pregnancy. Want to check it out?
Stone Forest How to get?
Stone Forest is about 20 km from Varna. Public transport It does not go here. You can get yourself alone by car or with a tour. The entrance is paid: 3 levs for adults and 2 for children. Guides and employees as a selection - all friendly and with a good sense of humor. How else? After all, the place itself has only positive emotions. Enjoy your holiday!
18 km. From the Bulgarian city of Varna is a valley, bearing the poetic name "Stone Forest". On an area of \u200b\u200b70 square kilometers there are many columns of a stone of diameters up to three and a height of up to seven meters. Consisting of lime sandstone, these stones with a porous structure are covered with recesses and cracks; Inside, they are hollow and filled with sand. Bulgarians themselves call them "driven stones" ("Breaky Kamani"), because when you look at them, the feeling that this unique "forest cannot have natural nature and its creation is the work of intelligent beings.
The origin of this miracle is a riddle, not solidified to the present, but there are many versions of the origin of the columns. One of them, stones are giant sizes Stalagmites with a history of more than 50 million years. On the other hand, lime deposits, which remained here after a marine mob, and bizarre forms are only a consequence of the long exposure to wind and air. Through the third version, it is the stumps remaining from the ancient trees. However, none of the versions were confirmed so far.
Conditionally allocate several groups of stones. The first is four rows of columns that are perpendicular to the road. The following is a group of high (about 6 meters) "trees". The third - stones, as if set by someone's gigantic hand on each other. But the fourth group is most interesting for tourists - a circle of relatively small stones, in the center of which is a high column. The Bulgarians themselves are belief that if you get around the whole "Stone Forest", and then go inside this circle, luck will never turn away from you.
Stone forest can be called an unusual natural phenomenon. In fact, this is not a forest in a classical understanding at all, but a large valley, destroyed by a great multitude sticking stone blocks. The "forest" is located 18 km from the Bulgarian city of Varna in the northeast of the country. Dust for visiting tourists.
The diameter of some columns reaches 2 m, and the height is 6 m. The dimensions and shapes of natural sculptures are different. Each column today has a personal sequence number and name. Here you can meet the "soldier", "waterfall", "damn", "Storam". In addition to separate blocks, there are whole complexes that Bulgarians also gave their names - "Altar", "Magic Circle".
By the way, the "magic circle" is a rounded composition of the columns. A large column rushes in the center, which gives energy to those who become in the educational center. Is it true or these are fiction guides, you will not recognize without having been here. But one fact does not give rest: within a radius of 1 m from the "circle", all electronic devices cease to function.
A unique natural phenomenon attracted the attention of scientists in the 19th century. It is believed that the most ancient and mysterious columns are located in the center of the stone wasteland. You can get there on foot during a crowded tour. Although it does not frighten the adventurers.
Secrets and Facts of the Stone Forest
On the sandy hills, which crosses the road highway, sometimes there are wonderful things. Someone has all the electronics, some have an unprecedented energy and adrenaline charge. Others say with confidence that they saw the "magic circle" UFO. True or fiction? Let's get acquainted with the secret side of the complex.
Six-meter hollow columns seem fantastic spectacle. Rows from hollow blocks create the impression as if they were connected by cones, barely fastened with each other with krons. An extremely curious complex of stones resembling the batch of fountains or animals that are measured in a silent despondency to millions of years. Bulgarians call this place Lychim, unearthly, but boldly depart here as guided signs. Local residents Nicknamed natural attractions beaten (that is, drunk) stones. This indicates that they do not believe in the naturalness of this formation. Enough bold assumption, isn't it?
Scientists in the entire history of the study of the stone forest put forward over two tens of hypotheses, which indicates the ambiguity of origin. The most popular version of the natural phenomenon is considered to be the one that binds "broken stones" with the marine past. As if hollow columns - nothing more than layers from different rocks that accumulated on algae or other representatives of the sea flora. After the algae turned into dust, the columns did not destroy the path of Paper-Masha. And the wind together with water and time already gave the column such funny forms. In this scientific hypothesis, weak argumentation can be traced: how are whole compositions formed almost perfect forms? Take, for example, the "magic circle".
The followers of ufologists believe that the columns served as an antennas for receiving a signal from space. And the stones themselves were a whole complex, which is part of the huge temple of the inhabitants of the Earth of the first civilizations.
What in Bulgaria, the lively interest of tourists attracts a unique natural phenomenon. The sand island stands out among the hills, completely covered with grass and shrubs. But his forest is represented by unusual stone trees. It seems that in the former times among the trees, a hurricane swears, broke them, leaving the remains of the bones of an unusual form.
Locals nicknamed this island with amazing sculptures "driven stones". Stone poles remind dilapidated Vertical columns seem to be specially driven into the sand. But this is not so, under a thick bowl of rocky soil and sand poles firmly grown with the basis in the form of limestone monolith. In the distant past, stone "trees" were formed under the action of climatic conditions.
Archaeologists and scientists still do not have to decide how and when the stone forest appeared. The main hypothesis indicates that about 50 million years ago at the site of an unusual natural phenomenon was located the bottom of the ancient ocean. This is indicated by huge layers of the most limestone deposits. Their density is different, softer rocks are subject to rapid destruction. Thus, as a result of centuries-old erosion of soils, elevations appeared, under the influence of winds, the shape of wooden trunks acquired.
There is another version of the stone trees pointing to their more reliable origin. They can be the remnants of giant corals than the total middle of the cylindrical stones is explained. Indeed, inside petrified plants are represented by the breed, the pores of which are filled with fresh sand.
Photos from http://bg.wikipedia.org Many scientists tend to the version that the columns inside have large pores because of the fact that underground gases have come out on the seabed of them, in particular methane, which is a source of food for rare microorganisms. The jet of methane, rising, formed around themselves ring-shaped colonies from representatives of primitive life. If we consider that generations of these creatures died over the centuries and transformed In stones, then "pipes", spewing methane, constantly grew.
Bulgarian old-timers argue 
as if the Stone Forest is nothing else as a enchanted magic place. The most incredible incidents with any person may happen here. It does not stop tourists who in every way seek to visit the stone forest, having suffered from him a kind and strong energy. There is an opinion that you need to touch the stone gigners by hand, go through the barefoot in the thousand-year sand and get the fortress of the spirit, invigorating and miraculous strength.
There are curious places for independent travelwhich, however, little is known outside the country. In the cities like Sozopol, Sofia, Varna can meet a huge number of people living in traveling, walk in the center, soaring on the beach (although in the case of Sofia - it is to conquer the nearest mountains), to make a cheap to drink and snack, ride through the surrounding mountain monasteries. But the cities will be discussed in another text. In this I will tell you about one of the vicinity of Varna - the "Stone Forest", which is 18 kilometers from the city.
In Bulgarians, this place is called "Breaky Kamani", in English - this is a Stone Forest (Yeah, the difference in the name is big, to put it mildly).
The place formed 15 million (according to other information - 50 million, but there are also third information arguing that it is about 10-15 thousand) years ago under the action of the magic of nature. According to one version, the rational, it was so. At this place there was a sand breed, under it sand, at the bottom of the clay. And completely from above - the sea, which then retreated. Under the action of water and wind, the exposed breed partially plunged into the sand, the sand was dried by the wind, "Stone Forest" was formed on the spot. Great place to play the imagination. Unfortunately, the camera with my photos "left" during the trip, so I will give a few pictures from the official site of the sights. What do you see in these stones?
But this place in the "Stone Forest" tourists "sell" as a stone of desires. Created man-made - in the sense, the circle is laid out. There is no magic here, although it looks like this forming mystically. Regular crowds of tourists are trying to retire in a circle to make a couple of desires - they promise that the desires will come true.
From time to time in the Stone Forest, films take off. For example, one of the series "Asterix and Obelix" partially starred here (I wonder how they managed to find the time when there are no tourists?). Sometimes there are representatives of all sorts of religions here, counting this place is sacred. In terms of charge, costs 3 levs for an adult.
How to get?
"Stone Forest" is the most popular place for tourists in Bulgaria among all, where it is impossible to get on Also. In the ideal, it is worth going on your car, because there are no regular transportation.
Also in the "Stone Forest" you can get from Albena or Golden Sands on the sightseeing bus, if you suddenly settled at the hotel in one of these localities, ask the administration about the trip.
By its own way if you have no car, you have to go to sunny (this is such locality) And go 3 kilometers on foot. I got here thanks to Yo-Ho Hostel's excursion, which in Varna. Have stop there, you will be offered a trip.
In Bulgaria, the highway is popular. And this is also quite a way to get to the stone forest.
- Here hellishness is hot, the water must be taken with you.
- Headwear - be sure.
- In the rain, it is better not to go - under your feet one sand.
- In the Stone Forest you can spend about an hour, maximum - two. Then you can go through the forest, although it is optional, there is nothing outstanding in the forest.
