Singing Rocks

The Singing Rocks (Peeshti skali in Bulgarian) is one of the nine preserved areas at the territory of the Central Balkan National Park. The reserve was established on July 11, 1979, aimed at protecting the variety of rock forms and the century-old beech woods, found on the reserve’s area – about 1466 hectares. The alpine and sub-alpine plant zones are quite well presented here. The typical pasture and bush vegetation covers the highest parts of the protected area. Singing Rocks is a typical forest reserve, as the most widely spread woods are of firtrees, sycamore, ash trees and hornbeam. The animal world is extremely rich here. Lots of animals are included in the list of the rare or threatened with extinction species. In the past the wild cat was very popular here, but nowadays it is quite limited because of the human invasion. The Singing Rocks includes the entire catchment basin of the Yantra River, as well as parts of the areas around the villages Stokite and Kravenik, Sevlievo district. Singing Rocks is named after the wonderful phenomena – the rocks on the ridge of the east parts of the Kalofer Mountain and their mysterious singing with the wind voice.

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