Lyuba Kutincheva

According to a 2016 Bulgarian state exhibit that presented artifacts from her trips between 1929 and 1939, Kutincheva (accompanied by her father or uncle) travelled to: Syria, Palestine, Transjordan (now Jordan), Egypt, Abyssinia (Ethiopia and Eritrea), Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Persia (Iran), Afghanistan, Oman, India, Burma (Myanmar), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Borneo, Sumatra, Philippines, Formosa (Taiwan), Siam (Thailand), China, Japan, Southern Sakhalin, Algeria, Spanish Morocco, Tunisia and Libya. Throughout her travels, she told stories of Bulgarian life and "wore a Bulgarian tricolor on her hat."

Kutincheva died on 20 September 1998 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

In 1939, she married journalist Alexander Konstantinov Dagorov, and she is sometimes known as Lyuba Kutincheva Dagorova.

After traveling for many years, Kutincheva went to Paris in 1935 to continue her education, studying journalism and French philology. She spent a one-year internship as a correspondent for the periodical Le matin and as a photojournalist for La femme, after which she began another journey through Spain and Morocco. In early 1939 she returned to France, where she completed her higher education. Finally, after a ten-year absence from home, she returned to Bulgaria in poor health.

Lyuba graduated from a French high school in Bucharest, Romania. By that time she had become an engaging speaker who enjoyed telling stories of her home region and pleading for its separation from Romania. In the company of someone from her family (father or uncle) she went to Turkey, where she toured big cities to entertain audiences with tales of Bulgarian history, literature, poetry, manners and customs, and about the situation in Dobruja under Romanian rule. Her talks were "aimed at the Romanian authorities' attempts to assimilate the population of Dobruja." She was able to speak Bulgarian, French, Romanian and Turkish. Her talks were very well attended and, using the money she earned from them, she began her travels in 1929 when she was only 19 years old.

Lyuba Kutincheva (Bulgarian: Люба Кутинчева; 15 May 1910 – 20 September 1998) was a Bulgarian traveler and polyglot who was known to speak at least seven languages. She traveled for almost a decade (1929–1938) in the Middle East, Far East, northern Africa and Europe.

Kutincheva was born in Tarnovo in the Kingdom of Bulgaria on 15 May 1910 into a family of intellectuals. After 1913, the family lived in Southern Dobruja, which was historically part of Bulgaria but was held at that time by Romania. While she was still a student, she participated in the Internal Dobrujan Revolutionary Organisation with her father, which was a communist organization of Bulgarians dedicated to freeing their territory from Romania.