Bulgaria is an ideal place for mountain skis. In mountains of Bulgaria throughout several decades all conditions for fans of mountain skiing and snowboarding were created. There is a set of places with long-term and dense snow. Tourists can hire skis and other stock in the hotels. For beginners in this kind of sports schools of mountain skiers are arranged. Here without effort you will find the best instructors who are speaking in English. And one even more important factor - to spend holiday on ski mountains of Bulgaria is much cheaper, than on other winter resorts of Europe.
In the Rila and Pirin mountains fascinating high-mountainous excursions are prepared for you. Walks in Rhodope are not less interesting also, which slopes are lower and more conveniently for ascension. Tourist tracks can be found here, on which cosy huts and small houses are built to make a pleasurable and unforgettable rest. The pedestrian excursions and rounds are often organized.
Pamporovo resort is recommended to the beginners in mountain skiing and snowboard. On this resort flat, safe and long descents are very convenient for those who would like to take their first steps in this winter sport. You will find here a school of mountain skiing and a snowboard known in the entire world with excellent instructors.
The resort have the popularity thanks to the comfortable hotels, the soft climate and fine conditions for winter sports from December till April. In the summer excursions on mountains are arranged here.
Evergreen
coniferous woods surround
Pamporovo. The
winter here is
long,
cloudless and soft as
the influence of
Aegean sea is felt. The snow
cover remains from December till
May, and
its thickness reaches 46
feet.
Borovets on the other side is the most eminent Bulgarian mounting skiing resort, located closer to Sofia, Bulgarian capital. It will be suitable for both beginning and skilled mountain skiers, snowboarders, as well to the fans of free ride and virgin driving. Mountain-skiing tours on a resort of Borovets have a stable demand from the tourist’s side. Hotels are not so much, but they are located directly on a hill in the forest.
Conditions for skiing are excellent in Borovts resort. The fans of long ski walks will found here an 18-kilometre route. 12 hotels of various categories (from 2 to 4-star) and 4 resort settlements are prepared to meet the tourist needs. There is even a kindergarten in Rila Planina hotel and for elder children the ski kindergarten is available.
A hit of the last seasons is a mounting skiing resort of Bansko, an ancient Bulgarian small town with old churches and narrow small streets. The modern system of ropeways and lifts of an Austrian manufacture, including gondola lift for eight people, deliver admirers of a snowboard and mountain skiing from the height of 3000 feet where the city is located to 5400 feet height where the mountain-skiing lines are for 15 minutes.
In Bansko there are lines for both beginners, and mountain skiers-experts. But it is advised to visit Bansko if you are confidently mastered of skis or board in order to estimate all the possibilities that are prepared for you in this beautiful resort.
Rest in Bulgaria in winter is first of all mountain skiing and a snowboard in unlikely beauty of Bulgarian mountains. Bulgarian mountain skiing has obtained the deserved recognition from the foreign mountain skiers and snowboarders. A key role in the increased popularity qualitative changes of an infrastructure of mounting skiing resorts have played - a set of modern hotels and a great set of the new lifts have been constructed here, which are not conceding to the best Alpine samples. Reasonable prices and the winter rest in Bulgaria, which has risen on a European level, are the keystones to success of the Bulgarian mountains.