Travel Blog: Canyon of Rosomac River, Old Mountain, Eastern Serbia

(A little walk through Old Mountain - part #1)

In my humble opinion, one of most beautiful mountains in Serbia is Old Mountain (Stara Planina). Located at far east of Serbia on border with Bulgaria, Old Mountain is for many very beginning of Balkan Mountain Range. Range ends at shores of Black Sea, and it is source of the name of the Balkan Peninsula. In next few posts I will show you just few amazing locations from Old Mountain. Just a few for simple reason; even though I've been there many times, I still didn't even scratched what Old Mountain has to offer. It's huge, it's vast, it's unexplored, it's wild and, most of all, it's indescribably beautiful! And for very start of our little walk around Old Mountain, one amazing, stunning and more than surprising place - Canyon of Rosomac River.

As girl has no name, this place have many of them :) I believe that official name is Rosomac Canyon, or shortly Rosomac by the name of small river which created it, but locals may call it Rosomac Pots (Rosomacki Lonci) or Rosomac Throat (Rosomacko Grlo). Also, finding this place can be challenging, since, as I told you - this is wild and almost untouched mountain. You may find few marks, but I strongly advise you to rely on GPS. Location is at 43.152598 latitude and 22.855965 longitude. Once you know that, finding it is easy walk for few miles from local village.

First visit to Rosomac was huge surprise. My friends have strange sense of humor, and they decided not to tell me where we are going and what we are looking for. I was aware that we are searching for something. At least I was hoping that we are searching for something and not just being lost as usual. But I wasn't guide for that day, so I decided to meditate in my head and follow the lead. At some point I realized that the sound of the stream becomes the sound of the waterfall. And then, on exit from forest, full beauty of Rosomac Canyon was in front of us. It may look small on photos, but it's not - it is big and beautiful and more than anything else, completely surprising.

Even though canyon is accessible from river level, off course if you are prepared to fight with strong current and to swim in icy cold water, best view to canyon is from one of it's sides. Explore those sides, and if you are there during summer, you may taste some delicious wild strawberries. That's exactly what I do when I am there - wander around, looking for some new view I did not discover in previous visits. Then, when I found perfect place somewhere on very edge of canyon, I just sit and listen thunder of river beneath me with taste of berries in my mouth. Life is sometimes so perfect...

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