National park ” Shumen the Plateau “
This national park - it is located near to the city of Shumen - differs a variety of a landscape, since mountain valleys and finishing mountain plateaus and the hills alternating dense woods and steep abrupt mountain formations. Owing to ideal climatic conditions here grows over 500 kinds of vascular plants. Besides here set of kinds of trees: an oak rocky, an oak turkish, a hornbeam ordinary, a birch, an exotic acacia false, an oak red.
The park is well-known for the richest fauna, here lives over 100 kinds of birds. Besides here there is an archeologic reserve - Shumen the Fortress. In a memorial complex of “1300 of Bulgaria” there is a Center of tourists.
Rusenski national park
Having taken pleasure in beauty of local flora and fauna, you can after that to spend some time, having visited ruins of medieval locks - for example, Cherven Lock, or studying petroglyphic painting in the temples which have been cut down directly in rocks, close Ivanov where in a far antiquity the anonymous Bulgarian icon painter has embodied the creations for posterity.
Among a huge variety shrubby tree species here too there are plants, ancestors which grow in steppe areas. However the flora here is compelled to yield the palm to the richest variety of fauna. The park teems with fishes, turtles, lizards, snakes, the set of rare birds, among them - vulture, a golden eagle, an serpent eagle here nests. Besides quite harmless bats and otters, here at times it is possible to meet the present predators - the wolf, the jackal and even a wild cat.

Change of conditions and duly rest salutarily influence health and growth of “industrial” parameters in work. In this clause we shall tell, about an opportunity to pass away winter severe evenings somewhere, for example in Thailand.
To arrive in Thailand for the term of till 1 month, preliminary the visa to do it is not necessary. Since March, 24th, 2007 to citizens of Russia entrance to the country for the term of till 30 days became visa-free. To stay in Тае already half a year - it is necessary to receive the visa in Thailand embassy, for example, in Moscow. For this purpose it is necessary to give in embassy the operating passport, one photo, a copy of the main page and page with registration of the internal passport, the filled questionnaire, the reference (training). Consular gathering 20 $. The visa as a rule within a week is done. It is better to ask the visa for three months a minimum with double entrance to the country.

Being in Thai, every month the visa will have to prolong. It is made at immigration office. There is this pleasure approximately 1700 бат. Fill the questionnaire, give the passport, its copy and a photo to the employee and in 10 minutes receive the passport with the prolonged visa. After three months the visa should be prolonged for three months. For this purpose it is necessary to cross Thai border and to drive back. There is a set of the companies which are engaged in prolongation of visas. One of legal ways looks so: about 7 mornings on you calls in a minibus, you carry up to border with Cambodia. After suppression of border receive a stamp in the passport go back. The trip borrows hours 8. The price for all - 2000 baht.
So, the visa have received, and you already in Bangkok to the airport. How to get in Patthai? Very simply - on an output from passport control to you will run up spieler by a taxi. The price nearby 2700 baht, on new Toyota Camry. If in the street to stop Taxi Meter (a taxi by phone) - the price will be 1200-1400 baht, the including cost of paid roads. But also the machine will be not Toyota Camry and below a class. The price of a trip by the bus varies from 91 up to 250 baht; cheaper will go rather long and with constant stops. More dearly - the comfortable express train. Duration of a trip up to Patthai as well as by a taxi, will make about two hours. Nuance: buses send from the underground ekamai, that is far enough from the airport. The hotel is recommended to be reserved in advance, through the Internet. If you wish to arrive in Thailand for long term is better to make it in October-November, has not begun yet find fault with a season, and good houses have not borrowed all. Nevertheless to live in the quite good house with pool is much more comfortable, than in a good apartment.