My business and personal trips

If you are in Sofia and have a free weekend, you love the mountains, and it's hot summer time, you could go very easy   to Maliovitsa in Rila Mountain (map) . The place is about 90 km / 55 miles away from Sofia and by car it takes about an hour and a half driving. My first stop on the route was Samokov through which actually passes the road to the ski resort Borovets  . For an hour I visit two places that worth seeing - The female monastery “Shroud of Holy Mary” ( Samokovski devicheski manastir "Pokrov Bogorodichen" ) (map) and   Mitropolitska church – "The Assumption of the Holy Virgin" ( Mitropolitska Tsurkva “Uspenie na sv. Bogoroditsa”) - (map) . The path to Malyovitsa hut Mitropolitska church -  churchyard Mitropolitska church -  churchyard Mitropolitska church  Mitropolitska church Mitropolitska church   Then we continue to our final point of the day - Govedartsi village ( 1170 m/3838 ft ) . Accommo...