Pamporovo

Pamporovo - Snow and Sun in the Mountain of Orpheus

Pamporovo is the sunniest winter resort in Bulgaria - here the winter is soft, but with a lot of snow, and the number of the sunny days during the season from December to March comes up to 120 days. The resort is situated in the South part of the Rhodopes Mountain, where, according to the legend, Orpheus, the mythical singer, had lived. Pamporovo has international popularity; it is located at an altitude of 1620 m above the sea level, 85 km from the city of Plovdiv and 250 km from Sofia. The average January temperature is about 3°C. The climate is exclusively healthy and it is no miracle that most of the centenarians in Bulgaria are found in this district.
Pamporovo offers wonderful skiing opportunities, luxury comfort in high-class hotels of an original Rhodopi style and various entertainment possibilities. The resort is a ski-centre for all categories of skiers. It has excellent ski runs, even including a racing ski run for Giant Slalom, as well as first class built-up ski lift system. The gentle profile of the mountain with its rounded slopes and summits make Pamporovo particularly suitable for beginners and intermediate skiers, although the difficult ski runs will test the mettle of any expert. There is a ski-school of international category too, with more than 100 highly qualified instructors. Classes are in 5 difficulty levels, from A to E, and can be taken individually or in groups. Their duration is between 3 and 12 days, 2 or 4 hours daily. All course graduates receive ski-certificates. In the 2008/2009 season 7 km new ski runs were opened, with which the total lenght of the ski runs in the resort became 38 km. There are 15 km more for ski runners. The resort has equipment for artificial snow. Also, besides all traditional services, the resort of Pamporovo is offering the following attractions: half pipe; rack-track train; night coasting down with sledges on lightened runs; stroll with sleighs, drawn of huskies - an unique entertainment for the Balkan mountain resorts; wine tasting; specialized hunting restaurant and Nestinar dances.

RICH ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME:

FOR THE GUESTS OF PAMPOROVO we reccommend to visit the ethnographic reserve in Shiroka Luka, The Trigrad canyon and the caves there: The Devil Throat and Iagodina, the Bachkovo monastery, dated from XI century and the Old Plovdiv.

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Weather in Pamporovo...

Low cost flights to Bulgaria:

• Wizz Air - wizzair.com;
• Easy Jet - www.easyjet.com;
• Germanwings - www.germanwings.com; 
• Air Berlin - www.airberlin.com;
• Fly Niki - www.flyniki.com;
• Bulgaria air - www.air.bg;
• Sofia International - www.sofia-international.de;

2010/11 winter season- SKI facilities - PAMPOROVO

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