Beautiful mountains hindering Luki

My neighbour Magda believes that the internet can rejuvenate the region.

"With internet, you can start enterprises in eco-tourism and agriculture, which will give young people a way to stay and earn a living here," she says.

The municipality will use the internet to research outside funding for community development projects.

A father-son traditional woodworking team hopes to more actively market their sculptures over the web.

Learning English by e-mail

In the school, the biology teacher considers the internet a necessity in modern-day education, and points to the internet addresses in her textbooks as an example.

Another teacher plans to use the internet in an exchange project with Macedonian students. The English teacher will encourage her students to practise their English by sending e-mails to penfriends.

Reciprocally, the world will get a chance to peek into the Rhodopes, which I liken to a neglected chest full of natural and cultural treasures.

Here, you find a dramatic landscape sprinkled with gem-like villages, established over the past 500 years as refuges from the Ottoman Empire.

The oldest Bulgarian traditions were preserved and maintained here, by virtue of the villages' inaccessibility.

Once the wireless link is complete, this remote village will be connected to the modern world. The end result should make it clear to everyone involved that "unity moves mountains".

The internet will virtually move mountains and open Luki to the world.

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