The Satyananda Yoga Symposium 2008 will be held in the beautiful National Palace of Culture (NDK) which is situated in the heart of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.

About Bulgaria

If you travel from abroad, plelase check if you need to apply for visa - here

About Sofia

Sofia is a city with a 7000-year history, which makes it a unique phenomenon in Europe, and places it among the settlements dating back to most distant antiquity. To this very day excavations in Sofia downtown bring up objects of the Neolithic man, and remnants of the Stone and Bronze Era.

LInks about Sofia visit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia

/www.sofia-life.com/info/info.php

http://www.insidesofia.com/gallery.php

Taxi: There are some taxis working with unreasonable fees. Please be careful, check the websites below.

OK TAXI - www.car.bg/cgi-bin/oktaxi.pl?lang=en

9120 TAXI - www.taxi91280.net/en/

The weather:
http://vremeto.v.bg/c/index.pl%3Fplace=15&action=real&lang=_eng.html

Don’t get lost, use BG maps:
http://www.bgmaps.com/?lang=en

Public transport in Sofia:
http://www.teambulgaria.com/id-144/Sofia-Public-Transport.html

Currency converter:
http://www.xe.com/ucc/

The phone code for Bulgaria is: 00359/

The phone code for Sofia is: 02/

Time zone:
Current time zone offset: GMT + 3 hours