Head 35km down the B-road, passing Batak (the site of a famous 19th-century uprising against the Ottomans), and continue deeper into the Rhodope Mountains towards Dospot.
The mountains were first sketched in 1798 by the highly regarded English cartographer James Rennell, a man already famous for mapping large parts of India.
Other rich and famous folk have been inspired by their own medical conditions, or those of a child or spouse, to move mountains, usually without much success.