One-day program
Day of the Panoramic Platforms
An 11 km day from Mogilitsa taking in the ancient Tipitse cave dwelling, the Lisa Gora tower and The Peak glass viewpoint, through forest and meadow.
The day
- Tipitse cave dwelling
- Lisa Gora tower
- The Peak viewpoint
Three high places in one day, strung along an 11 km walk with around 500 metres of climbing, from the old Roman bridge at Shirok Most through forest and meadow.
It opens in deep time at the Tipitse cave, a horizontal marble hollow that sheltered people from the Early Bronze Age to the Middle Ages and, twelve thousand years before them, cave bears. Then it climbs to the Lisa Gora tower, nineteen metres of steel above the Central Rhodopes, where a clear day reaches the southernmost point of Bulgaria, two Greek mountains, a shoulder of Pirin and twenty-two villages scattered below.
It finishes on the glass floor of The Peak, a platform hung some 350 metres above the river, where the last step out is onto thin air and nerve.
What to bring. Comfortable hiking shoes and season-appropriate clothing, plus a small backpack with water, food and a raincoat. Trekking poles optional. Mountain insurance is mandatory for these guided programs; the guides are happy to help you arrange it.