Two of the new teachers at school asked me recently to put together scavenger hunt.

It started off as a joke. And then it wasn't.

The two of them had decided that they needed to get out in Sofia by themselves with a map, a camera and some leva for coffee (or beer), get themselves lost and then find themselves again in order to really figure out the city.

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Sounds like a great plan to me.

I think that's really the only way that you get to know a city. That and getting out to explore new things as much as possible. I was lucky to live in the city center when I first moved to Sofia so the exploring was a little different for me but these girls live on campus right behind the school so they need to really work at getting off campus.

So I told the girls I'd send them on a wild goose chase. This pretty quickly turned into me sending them on a scavenger hunt and by the end of our conversation last weekend, I'd promised to make a "sight-seeing scavenger hunt of Sofia" for the two girls wherein they had a check list, a map, a guide book and a camera and had to take pictures at each sight on the list in order to prove that they'd been there.  We'd meet-up at some predetermined cafe in the city center a few hours after they'd started and see how they'd done.

Great plan, <em>huna</em>? What could go wrong? <!--more-->

Well, here's what.

I got really busy at school over the last few days and I haven't made the scavenger hunt list yet. In fact, I am currently writing a blog post about the sight-seeing scavenger hunt in Sofia which I've actually yet to create. <em>Awesome</em>. That's how I roll.

So, here's the start of my list and to preface this I put together a few sentences on my current thinking about the game. I think that the way a scavenger hunt works it's better to have more places to stop off rather than fewer. I think it's important to have a mix of places seeing as these girls actually live in Sofia rather than just visiting. I think that major sites don't require a street address but that lesser sites/meeting places/restaurants do require a street address.

<strong>A Sight-Seeing Scavenger Hunt in Sofia:</strong>
<ul>
	<li>Alexander Nevski Cathedral</li>
	<li>National Gallery for Foreign Art</li>
	<li>National Assembly</li>
	<li>Monument to Liberators</li>
	<li>Ethnographic Museum/National Art Gallery</li>
	<li>St. Nikolai Russian Church</li>
	<li>Mineral Baths</li>
	<li>Sveta Nedelya Cathedral</li>
	<li>Banya Bashi Mosque</li>
	<li>Sofia Synagogue</li>
	<li>St. Sofia Statue</li>
	<li>Monument to the Soviet Army</li>
	<li>Ivan Vazov National Theater</li>
	<li>NDK (The National Palace of Culture)</li>
	<li>1300 years monument</li>
	<li>Slaveikov Square (outdoor/open air book market)</li>
	<li>Graf Ignatiev Fruit and Veggie Stalls</li>
	<li>Popa Statue (at the corner of Levski and Graf Ignatiev)</li>
	<li>Any Happy Bar and Grill</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2010/04/18/new-find-supastar/" target="_blank">SupaStar</a> on Shishman Street</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2010/12/05/sofias-taqueria/" target="_blank">The Taqueria</a> also on Shishman Street</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2010/12/14/zona-urbana/" target="_blank">Zona Urbana</a> on Angel Krunchev</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/2009/12/14/memento-beans-grapes/" target="_blank">Memento</a> on Vitosha (the Memento on Rakovski has gotten too big)</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.spottedbylocals.com/sofia/lime/" target="_blank">Lime</a> on Graf Ignatiev (Gasp, a cafe I've been to half a dozen times but have apparently never written about luckily Spotted By Locals has.)</li>
	<li>Any downtown Pizza Ygo</li>
</ul>
Seeing as I put the above list together in something like 10 minutes, here's where you come in. What else should be on this list? What should my friends see? What places do they need to know about in order to get around the city? Anything fun that we should add to the list?

Let me know what you think in the comments section, okay?! <em>Thanks.</em>