The Rila Mountain lays in the south west of Bulgaria, 60 miles (100 km) south of Sofia.
The Rila Mountain range, with their beautiful rugged landscape has so much to offer!
The Rila's numerous peaks tower over 2500m with the highest of them, Musala, reaching nearly 2925m.
Among them more than 200 mountains lakes can be found at great heights, together with diverse wild life and over 2000 different plants.
This region also boasts Bulgaria's most famous monastery, the Rila Monastery, and the country's oldest winter resort Borovets.
The Rila mountains seems to be a piece of the Alps thrown into the heart of the Balkans with its 130 alpine peaks above 2000m, glacial valleys and lakes. The snow cover on the parts of average |
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altitude and the alpine parts often exceeds 2m. Eastern Rila is the highest part of the mountain where one can visit Rila's highest mount, Moussala at 2925m and the 10 top peaks and the highest lake in Rila-the Glacial lake 2709m.
North-western Rila is the home to some of the symbols of Bulgarian alpinism and mountaineering, Malyovitsa and Kupenite peaks and the biggest and significant lake groups, the most famous and scenic of all are the 7 Rila lakes.
Many of the marked tourist hiking trails and high-mountain rock climbing tours originate from here. |