This week it has snowed almost constantly here in Sofia. I usually don’t like the winter season but at the same time am I happy to be here, as Sofia is one of the most beautiful cities in winter time for me. Yesterday I got inspired while taking a walk and made the movie below, enjoy! This is my love song to Sofia:
Of course who can resist to take some pictures also?
Yesterday I spend the day with some friends walking up to the peak of Vitosha mountain, just outside of Sofia. The weather was perfect and during the day we experienced everything from walking in t-shirt to light freezing with several layers of clothes. Although the weather was great there was not so many people up in the mountain, and because there are several trails up to the peak of Vitosha we mostly met people at the top. There, at 2290 meters elevation, we got warm lunch (lentil soup and kofta with lutenitsa) from a hut while enjoying the beautiful view of Bulgaria’s mountains around us.
One thing I had really missed and looked forward to do again was to climb in Bulgaria. The first weekend after being back in Sofia I went out with a friend to climb two places.
The first day we went to Kominite in Vitosha. This climbing site offers sport climbing routes with several rope lengths (multi pitch). At this place slow climbing is best while enjoying the nature and view, and the level of difficulty is not so high.
The second day we climbed Pod Polynata (translated “under the moon”) in Bozhenitsa. This is the only sandstone routes in Bulgaria and a lot of the indoor handles for climbing halls are actually molded from these rocks and exported all over the world. Climbing style here is also sport climbing but with only one rope length and more technical/difficult options.
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