Along the way, the road to Apriltsi leads us past this meadow of grasses and thistles. Some lucky goatherd will pass this way and his flock will be happy for the day, while he finds pleasant, cool respite in the shade beneath one of yonder trees. Such is the life in the Stara Planina. According to legend, a Bulgarian shepherd in the Stara Planina who did not have enough vessels to hold all the milk fom his sheep made a bag from a fresh lamb's hide and put the extra milk there. The next morning he found yoghurt in the bag, most likely generated by Lactobacillus Bulgaricus, the famous bacteria responsible for all Bulgarian yoghurt.
