The Rumbling Hall
A hundred metres high, filled with the fall's noise.
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A wide, lower range running south from Plovdiv to the Greek border, less high than Rila and Pirin, greener and more inhabited — scattered stone villages, dense forest and narrow gorges. Greek myth makes them the home of **Orpheus**, the musician-poet who went down to the underworld, and gives him a Thracian origin in these mountains. The region is also known for its folk music and the gaida bagpipe, and for the song Izlel e Delyo Haydutin, which was sent into space aboard the Voyager probe. It also holds a large Bulgarian Muslim community, the Pomaks, and villages with old mosques.
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The Devil's Throat Cave lies in the Trigrad gorge deep in the Rhodope mountains, and getting there is part of it: the road cuts through a narrow rock cleft with vertical walls. Inside the cave is **one enormous chamber** about a hundred metres high, called the Rumbling Hall, into which the Trigrad river falls forty-two metres — the highest underground waterfall in the Balkans. The noise inside is tremendous and the air is full of spray. Visitors enter by an artificial tunnel at the bottom of the chamber, then leave by climbing **three hundred and one steps** in a narrow, wet passage. And the scientifically odd part: anything thrown into the river before it enters the cave **never comes out** the other side. The experiment has been repeated with marked timber and with dyes, and nothing has appeared. The underground system between the entrance and the resurgence has never been fully explored. Local legend has it that Orpheus descended from here into the underworld looking for Eurydice.
A hundred metres high, filled with the fall's noise.
The road itself cuts a vertical rock wall.
Trigrad gorge, Rhodope mountains