Koukeri!!!

This past weekend I was in Pernik, Bulgaria where there was a huge Koukeri festival. What is Koukeri you ask? Well in a nutshell it is a pre-spring celebration designed to chase away evil spirits and ask for a plentiful harvest. It was GREAT!! It's my new favorite thing about Bulgaria. The costumes were very elaborate-some scary, some funny but I will let the pictures speak for themselves.