Loess Fest 2026
Echoes of the past: Loess, climate and human interactions during the Pleistocene will take place between 7-11 September in Krapets, Bulgaria
The next Loess Fest meeting in 2026 will be held in Bulgaria, having 470 km of the Lower Danube river, carving Bulgarian and Romanian loess covered areas. Field trip, which is traditionally organized during the Loess Fest meetings, is planned in North Eastern Bulgaria, showing two important loess sites in this area – outcropping sequences in active open quarries for kaolin extraction near Kaolinovo / Kolobar and an outcrop at the Black sea coast near Bulgarian / Romanian border.
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