Naroden Park Vitosha Favorites

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Fondest memory: These two nice mountain rescuers desinfected my injured leg, sprayed it with some antibacterial stuff and put on bandaid. They were kind and humourus, we made ourselves understood with my serbo-croatian and their bulgarian (well, guess they used some serbian words to make it easier for me, and they do speak english, too.) In fact they knew a little norwegian: They had visited the Norwegian Red Cross and knew how to say it in norwegian: "Røde Kors", and how to toast: "Skål!" :-)

I took pic 2 for another reason: To write a tip about filling up your water bottle before starting your hike. Incidentally the rescuers Aleko headquarters is in the background on the right side of the picture, thus I place it here for you to see where you should go, should something similar happen to you.

They even have Ambulance gondolas to bring injured people down from the mountain! (pic 3) I did not try them, after all, I had walked an hour to get there, so I figured I could go by a normal gondola down ;-)

Bulgarian Mountain Rescue Service

To report accidents / call for help, you can use one of these phone numbers night and day:

Main:
02 963 2000
GSM: 088 1470 (for M-tel prescribers),
Cell phone: 048/1843

Cerni Vrh base:
02 967-11-28

Aleko base:
02 967-1155
GSM: 088 1472 (for M-tel prescribers)
Cell phone: 048 1840