04.01.2007Some areas such as Bansko and Borovets have seen an upgrade in accommodation and sport facilities to the grade of being confident enough to run for hosting Olympics 2014 bid....
04.01.2007Riding the gleaming blue Doppelmayr gondola up the Pirin mountains over a pine forest blanketed by overnight snow, it was easy to imagine we were in the French Tarentaise rather than Bulgaria....
27.10.2006A snow park and half - pipe for snowboarders. A cross - country track. There’s even a shooting range for biathlon competitions.
It’s not just the journalists who were bowled over by Bansko....
17.10.2006Incidentally, when I was there, skiers were being bussed in from Borovets, the country\'s foremost ski resort, because Bansko had better snow. Those I spoke to favoured the upstart over its older rival....
