How I found the purpose of making experience videos and photos and get engaged

Hello mate, I’m sure you don’t have a lot of time so I’ll keep my post short. Also one photo for attention grabbing:

I wanted to share with you why I’m sharing on Google Maps as a Local guide.

Everything started with one of my first serious trips around my country - Bulgaria. Me and my fiance (at that time just a girlfriend) packed our backpacks and hoped on my car for a long weekend in the mountains on the south-west called Rhodope mountain. The idea was to see some beautiful places and snap photos as a memory just for us. While we traveled I saw some of the most fascinating views in my life!

We visited some of the best viewpoints around Vucha dam, we had an off-road drive with a jeep without roof to be able to see the mesmerizing view from Wolf’s Stone and swooped on trolley near Devil’s Тhroat cave. We ate the most delicious souffle you can ever imagine! Which you expect to eat at some luxury city restaurant but it was at the restaurant of a small hotel at the end of the road near the border between Greece and Bulgaria. After that we slept in small guest house on Vucha dam again, but on the other side, where you can go just by boat through the dam or by 10 hour hike through the forest. We choose the boat. And we felt in love in that place so much that an year later when we was there again I proposed to Joanna on a rock with beautiful view above this guest house. So we are getting married soon!

This was such an eye opening experience that changed my life!

Now we travel around Bulgaria every month and sometimes every week, capturing the beauty of our country as professionals - we started content production studio in tourism industry. We are making experience videos and photos for people to be able to feel what we feel on locations and inspire them to travel more.

In the beginning of that story we had 2-3 not so pleasant experiences with small roads between the villages and the viewpoints in Rhodope mountain - there wasn’t any signs or something to tell us where exactly is located our next destination. In this moment while we wandered around I’ve started to review these places on Google Maps for the next people after us to be able to find the best road or location in the easiest possible way. Since that moment when I started as a Local Guide on Google Maps my reviews helped a lot of my friends who wanted to see the same places after us and after that I’ve liked to post a lot. In this exact moment of writing this post, my photos are reaching 4 million view and my reviews are helping people to see the stunning beauty of Bulgaria. That makes me sooo proud!

I hope for you to be able to see my country and feel that magic that I’m talking about in this post!

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