24, 25, 26 May – hiking through Stara Planina

We arrived in the early morning of 24th of May at the train station of Gabarevo. The group was from 9 people – 3 men and 6 women. We started the hike up to Sokolna hut at about 7-7:30 AM, but didn’t exactly rush to there. We stopped at a cherry tree garden – tried a few cherries. We stopped nearby a rose garden and enjoyed the flowers. That’s why we prolonged a 2-3 hour trip to a 5 hour one. Beautiful.

Sokolna hut – view from below.

We got to the hut at noon. I’ll keep the rest of the day short – party, lunch, bath, party, music We got to bed at about 11 PM.

The next day I woke up earlier than the group, walked around, took some pictures (you can see all of them at my Google Picasa Albums).

A long day it was – we climbed all peaks from Triglav massive. All of them – above 2000 meters altitude.On the picture below you can see two of them – Goliam Kademlia (2276 m – the second highest in Stara planina) and Malyk Kademlia (2228 meters).

We arrived at Tyja hut at about 6 PM not exactly tired – rather happy from the day we left behind. And the same story happened – party, bath, dinner, party… etc. Nice evening it was again

The third day we planned to climb Maragidik peak (1891 m) and descent to Apriltsi town to travel to Rousse. We left at about 8:30 again, but the fog wasn’t planned – we lost our way a couple of times before we found Maragidik and then decided to go back and get the traditional descent to Apriltsi. At about 13:30 (1:30 PM) we were at the town, but unfortunately our second group (me and two of the girls) missed the last bus to Troyan (where the train station was). So we payed to a private car to drive us to Troyan – and got there on time.

Ok, didn’t exactly follow it from begining to end, but you can check out my Picasa albums – I guess they show more.