Pirin Mountain
The country’s second largest mountain, highest peak Vihren/2.914 m/,176 mountain lakes and about a 100 varieties of rare plants ,including the edelweiss and the famous Baikoscheva fir, almost a 1.300 years old. Extending over an area of 27,400 ha and lying at an altitude of 1,008–2,914 m in the Pirin mountains, in south-west Bulgaria, Pirin National Park has a limestone Balkan landscape, with lakes, waterfalls, caves and pine forests. The rugged mountains, with some 70 glacial lakes scattered throughout them, are home to hundreds of endemic and rare species, many of which are representative of the Balkan Pleistocene flora. The mountains also have diverse and unique landscapes of great aesthetic value. Location of the well known spa resort of Sandanski and the latest Bulgarian ski center - Bansko.




