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KAYAK ADVENTURE
From the Storks Nest region, and after a brief instructions course, you can enter the dam with a kayak. The kayak is for up to 2 people. If you are alone and don’t have experience in kayaking, you have an option to be with an instructor.
Duration: Optional
FISHING ON THE ISKAR DAM
With organized transportation, we can get you from the hotel to the Storks Nest area, where you will enter the dam with a boat, you can fish from the boat or from the shore. For an even better experience, you can combine fishing with a barbeque on a green field, where you can cook the fish from you catch. Your catch can be prepared at our restaurant also.
The boat is for a group of 5 people
Duration: Optional
BOAT TOUR AROUND ISKAR DAM AND PICNIC
With organized transportation, you can get you from the hotel to the Storks Nest area, where the captain and the boat await you. The boat ride will be an hour-long around the coast of the dam, where you will see the Avala nature wildlife conservation park. And after you can get to on a green field, where we can organize a picnic, sunbathing, a variety of games, a barbeque, or fishing on the coast.
The boat is for a group of 5 people
Duration: Optional
YOGA
Yoga is a healthy practice for improving flexibility, trains the primary muscle groups, calms the mind and helps if you suffer insomnia.
Herewith us, you can practice Yoga indoors and outdoors among the fresh mountain air.
In case you wish to practice yoga with a trainer, we can arrange a professional if the request is made up to two days before the training.
Duration: Optional
PILATES
Pilates is one of the most popular and modern methods to strengthen your body, to lose weight and for stress relieving. It’s a systematic method of improvement of flexibility, strength, body straightening, toning muscles, gives flexibility and balance, all resulting in a better-looking figure.
You can practice Pilates outdoor or indoor. With an instructor requires 2 days in advance reservation.
Duration: Optional
PAINTBALL AT YASTREBETS PARK FOREST
The participants receive paintball equipment and go through a brief instructions safety course.
The minimum group number is 10 people and the maximum is up to 150.
Duration: Optional
ARCHERY
At Yastrebets Park Forest you can have two archery targets. After a brief instructions safety and archery course, everyone can experience the activity.
An instructor is always on-site. There are models for men and women, right-wingers
Duration: Optional
TENNIS, BASKETBALL & VOLLEYBALL
The court has dimensions of 35 m x 20 m.
It is better to book it in advance.
Duration: Optional
TABLE TENNIS
You can play single matches or doubles. There is an option to play outdoor or indoor.
It is better to book it in advance.
Duration: Optional
MOUNTAIN BIKE TOUR TO BELI ISKAR VILLAGE
The start is from the hotel, on a mountain trail to get to Beli Iskar Village. There are two options to come back – in the same way or to continue to the Samokov town, where we can bring you back by organized transportation.
Difficulty Level: Low
Duration: 2 hours
MOUNTAIN BIKE TOUR TO YASTREBETS HUT AND MUSALA HUT
From the hotel through the Yastrebets hut, you can get to Musala hut. If the group decides, you can have lunch at the hut and relax next to the scenic lake in front of it and underneath the peak.
Difficulty level: Medium
Duration: 6 hours
MOUNTAIN BIKE TOUR TO HUNTERS VILLA SITNYAKOVO
The tour begins from the hotel via the Sitnyakovo trail to the hunters’ villa, Sitnyakovo. The villa is built in 1914 as a winter villa for Tsar Ferdinand I, which later is used as a holiday home of the Bulgarian Writers Union during the Communist time in the country.
Difficulty Level: Low
Duration: 2 hours.
HORSEBACK RIDING
The start off is from the hotel and ride on the mountain path to the Black Rock, or on the Musalenska pathway towards the Beli Iskar village.
It needs to book it in advance. The group maximum is 6 people.
Difficulty level: Low
Duration 2 hours
RAFTING ON STRUMA RIVER
Rafting is a great way to relax your mind from the busy daily routine, which will get your adrenaline up. In 90 minutes, you can get from the hotel by car to Kresna Gorge. After equipment and detailed instructions for safety and behavior in fast-running rivers, rafting along the Struma River will be lasting 13 km in about 3 hours’ time. Each group member will receive a gift – video from the adventurous water experience. If the group wish, can have lunch there and after it, to get back to Yastrebets Hotel Wellness SPA.
The best months for rafting are April, May, and June, as the water levels are high and appropriate for rafting.
Difficulty level: Medium
Duration: 6-7 hours.
BICYCLES
We offer bicycles for rent to our guests, who wish to cycle on their own among the beauty of the Rila Mountain. It’s mandatory for the cyclists to use only the marked route, every rider receives a map of the region, and the bicycle routes map with different difficulty levels at our Yastrebets Park Forest.
Group is up to 10 people.
Duration: Optional
ATV
You can rent ATV with, or without an instructor, as it’s necessary for the riders to have a valid driver’s license.
The route on which you ride is individually selected. It’s mandatory to drive only on the marked route, some of which lead to the Black Route, Beli Iskar village and parts of the Musalenska pathway.
Duration: Up to the riders