Test Competition

Deltaclub is a hang gliding club from Sofia, Bulgaria. Our history starts in 2010 when some young enthusiastic pilots came to the idea to create a small club for aerial sports and especially for hang gliding. They started the development of a hang gliding school. New students make their first flights each year. Step by step we hope that we will resurrect the interest about hang gliding of the young people. Now days we have more than 10 members and our small flying family is getting bigger and bigger.

Last year we travelled to Greece and Macedonia for the National Hang Gliding Championships and we had a great time, made many new frends, met great pilots... From our conversations with all of that people the idea of making a Balkans HG competition was born.

Deltaclub BG decided to be the first organizer of this event. We really hope that this will become a tradition and in the upcoming years we will have this event in other counties of the Balkan penisnula.

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What would you say about a video festival?

All of us know how fun, usefull and pleasant  is watching videos from someones flights. Because of that we decided to make a kind of a small video festival. It will be nice after a good flying day to take a beer, sit  down, relax and watch some videos in the open air in front of the headqarter. To analize, discuss or just have lots of fun.

So we want to invite each of you to bring the some of the most interesting videos of his/her flying experience. Feel free to bring as much as you want...We will arrange everything else!

  

During the competitions in Sopot area the following flying sites may be used

 

Koniavo mountain, TV tower
• Take-off: Koniavo, at 1450 m. (N 42.346798°, E 22.837486°)
• Landing:Gorna Grashtica landing field, at 570 m. (N 42.315186°, E 22.796218°)
• Suitable for: South, South-West winds
• Denivelation: 850m.

 

Tash Tepe
• Take-off: Tash Tepe, at 1730 m. (N 42.211457°, E 22.503696°)
• Landing:Kamenichka Skakavica landing field, at 940 m. (N 42.242635°, E 22.513006°)
• Suitable for: North, North-East, North-West winds
• Denivelation: 790m.

"Bandera Ranch"

Our hosts form "Bandera ranch" are real cowboys. They absolutely adore the nature and the beauty of Koniavo mountain and make everything possible to keep the area clean and pure for the following generations. They have a big herd of Montbiliard cows living up in the mountain in summer and give the best milk you have ever tasted. The family loves the homemade food sо they have their own dairy where any kind of milk products are produced. Even the honey in the houses is form the beehives in the fornt yard.

The owner is certified to train people in the specific cowboy horse riding. They have 11 horses from the famous Haflinger breed. So we think you can use your free time in a very interesting way. 

 

 

 

 In the area of Kiustendil you can find many places of interest, historical heritage and beautiful nature.

The town of Kuistendil

Kiustendil is a town with more than 3000 years of history. It has especially favorable climate for recreation and mineral water springs. The town is founded by the ancient Thracians and many years after the Romans founded here the town of Pautalia, well known by its mineral springs.  The mineral water is with high temperature around 73⁰ C.

The city is one of the most popular places for SPA vacations in Bulgaria. You can try some of them and find many restaurants, cafes and places of interest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  The Rila Monastery

The Rila Monastery is the biggest spiritual centre of Bulgaria. The monastery is the largest and most popular Eastern Ortodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is situated in the southwestern Rila Mountains, 117 km away from the capital - Sofia in 1147m above sea level. It is named after its founder St. Ioan Rilski. Founded in the 10th century, the Rila Monastery is regarded as one of Bulgaria's most important cultural, historical and architectural monuments and is a key tourist attraction for both Bulgaria and  Southern Europe. In 2008 alone, it attracted 900,000 visitors.

The monastery is a part of the UNESCO World heritage since 1976 and a National Museum.

 

 Sapareva Bania

 A small town situated in the foot of Rila Mountain. The main tourist routs to the Seven Rila Lakes, Panichishte and Skakavitsa start from here.

The only hot geyser in Europe is situated here. The temperature of the water is 103^o C.

 

 The pyramids in Stob

The sandstone pyramids of Stob are among the most popular natural attractions for tourists in Bulgaria. They are near the village of Stob, in the region of the southwestern Rila mountain range (Kapatishkiya).

They were recognized as a natural landmark in 1964, along with the surrounding 7.4 hectares.

The pyramids are 30-40 meters thick and 6-10 meters high, reaching a height of 12 meters in some places. Some of the pyramids are pointed and needle-like, while others are round and topped with sandstone “hats” having dimensions of 120/80 cm. and resembling giant mushrooms. Their bases are wide and often joined to neighboring formations.

Most of the pyramids are on the south slope. They range from bright yellow to dark brown and red.

 

 

 Zemen monastery

The Zemen Monasteri is a Bulgarian Orthodox monastery located one kilometre away from Zemen ( a small town in western Bulgaria). The monastery was established in the 11th century. It is rather small with a church, belfry and two other buildings. It is currently uninhabited. The church is a monument of culture.

The church dates from the foundation of the monastery in the late 11th century and has a cube shape, 9 metres long, 8 metres wide, 11.20 metres high. The altar is a stone monolith and the floor is made of colourful tiles. The church is richly painted inside, with two layers of frescoes, the scarcely preserved early one dating to the 11th century. The better preserved Biblical scenes date from the mid-14th century and include several portraits of donors: the first one depicting an unnamed man, his wife Doya and their two children, the second featuring a young man, Vitomir, and a boy, Stoyu. These portraits rank among the oldest and artistically most valuable in the Balkans after the frescoes of the Boiana Church.

 

The Seven Rila Lakes

One of the most beautiful and magnetic places in Bulgaria are the lakes in Rila mountain. They are situated on 2 500 m above the sea level and have gracial origin. Each lake has a unique name related to its form. The highest lake is called "The tear", than we have "The Eye", "The Kidney", "The Twin", "The trefoil", "The Fish Lake", and the last one is "The Lower lake"

This lakes are one of the main tourist attraction in Bulgaria because of the inspiring natural beauty of the place. They are locater one above another and small streams make the connection between them. 

 

Karting in Kiustendil - Pautalia

Swimming pool in Kliustendil