Heat, gypsies on horses, zakuski and even more horses

The closest city from Shipka is Kazanlak (30 minutes bus ride away). Speaking, pardon, writing of buses, one of the many unusual things here is the order how people have to pay for a bus ride. Passengers have to do payment after they get into the bus and sit down. After every stop during the ride one person with a fanny pack around its waist while trying to keep a balance goes to each new passenger to charge money. Certainly this is the reasoning for such frequent rides between Kazanlak and Shipka (every half an hour on working days).
 
My first bus ride to Kazanlak was quite interesting. In the bus seats sitting well tanned people, mainly with dark hair, chatting in language I don't understand, outside the window the sun in serene sky shining brightly, bushes of wild roses passing by, some dry lavanda fields, dry agriculture land looking more like savanna with some eagles circling above it, unenviable shepherd with its flock of sheep in abnormal heat, some gypsies riding with horses, and over it all the bluish Balkans... And to make the first ride even more odd in the background radio was playing something like this.