Prohodna Cave, Bulgaria

a great Bulgarian card I received last year

It shows Prohodna, a karst cave in north central Bulgaria, located in the Iskar Gorge near the village of Karlukovo. The cave is known for the two eye-like holes in its ceiling, known as the Eyes of God or Oknata. They have formed due to erosion and they let light pass through into the cave.
The cave is 262 metres long, which makes it the longest cave passage in Bulgaria. It has two entrances which lie opposite one another, known respectively as the Small Entrance and the Big Entrance.

Speaking of caves, I recently visited the most amazing one I've ever been to! hopefully will have the chance to write about it on the blog one day :)

there are two stamps on the card: the right one is from a set of 4 stamps issued in 2012, representing Regions of Bulgaria, the northwestern region in particular. The other stamp is from a set of 5 stamps issued in 1999, representing gold treasures of Panagjurište (a Bulgarian town and municipality)

thanks a lot to Tsvetana for this great card!

Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

Pheww....finally, here i am...and i better scribble down something before i fall again into one of those emotional turmoils...ive been in such a state for like two weeks...and its been getting worse and worse each day...I thank God to the bits and pieces of sunshine he brought me today...i know they wont last for long...the upcoming periods wont allow it...but at least, for the time being, i need to enjoy it as much as possible...right?

and ill start today with one lovely and cheerful card from dear Sainara....well, its always indeed a pleasure to receive a card from the Netherlands Antilles...but its a double pleasure to receive it from dear people..

the card shows the Feeding time at the Donkey's Sanctuary...Sainara says how she remembers donkeys walking around freely while growing up. But then, with the growing population and increasing car accidents involving donkeys, a sanctuary was made and the majority of the donkeys reside there now.

Thats really cool actually...to have donkeys roaming around freely...or horses...or elephants...or some other animals...as long as they wont be able to do you harm. Its nice for them to have all that freedom in the world.
Here, in our ZOO, not only the animals cant walk around freely, they are even in danger from all those people with lack of consciousness, who feed them inappropriately, even though there are huge signs which say that its strictly forbidden to feed the animals...just recently one of the camels had died suffocating from a bag of crisps...totally miserable...and i dont get it how people can be so reckless...but they just dont seem to care...at all.

 

I suppose this stamp is issued regarding Christmas holidays...its from December 2006, but i dont have any further information about it unfortunately!

Sainara, thanks a lot again, not just for this, but for all the great cards you had sent me!