Summer Activities
The mountain of Orpheus offers splendid opportunities for your summer holiday among an oasis of cleanliness and beautiful wild nature. Even if you feat your eyes for a while on the beautiful panorama and if you breathe in the crystal clear air, you will fall in love for ever with the lyrical and attractive Rhodopi mountain. Here, you can walk every day among the centuries-old spruce and beech forests. You will see here a running fawn, the fluffy tail of a squirrel or long hare ears. More than 200 bird species live here and you can also see here the especially rare passerine bird wall-creeper, a black stork and a Golden Eagle. During the night, you can hear awesome owl hooting and at dawn-the marriage song of the cock of the wood.
Mountain Climbing
Trigradsko gorge will be of great interest to rock climbing fans-this is the kingdom of caves and abysses, of surface and underground karst forms, of fairy tales and myths. The games of extreme nature include climbing, rope bridges, traveling by boat along the underground waterfall of the cave Diavolsko gurlo.
Mountain Biking
The mountain holiday resort Pamporovo offers excellent conditions for mountain biking. The routes are of different degree of difficulty, which gives a possibility for relaxing descents and recreation away from busy daily life, as well as you may enjoy here rapid, full of adrenalin descents.
Walking Trails
Many Bulgarians and foreigners are fans of individual walking tours around the Rhodopi mountain. The total length of the marked routes is 350 kilometers.
Horse Riding
The horseback riding tours are another opportunity for a summer adventure in Pamporovo. We shall provide you with horses in excellent shape, so that you can enjoy safe and pleasant horseback riding tour, regardless of your age and training.
Sport Fishing
If you love the tranquility of fishing, then you must know that there are many dams and rivers in this region, which are full of mountain trout, whitefish, carp and perch. The places for fishing around Smilian village are included in the list of the most attractive fishing destinations for fishermen from the whole country.
Herbs Collecting
The Rhodopi mountains are also an important place for amateur mushroom-gatherers and herb-gatherers. While you walk around the mountain, you can fill your basket with delicious edible boletus, suillus mushrooms, parasol mushrooms or chanterelle, as well as you may pick a fragrant bouquet of herbs here.