The ride up the mountain is quiet and very smooth because the 6.3km-long lift is barely two years old. I am alone in the eight-seat gondola, since, at 9.30am, still the "rush-hour", there was no one ...

The ski zone above Bansko is set to welcome visitors during the Easter holidays with exceptional late-season conditions, as snow cover near Todorka Peak has reached close to three meters. The resort ...

Ski bum and snow bunny alert. Still one of the hottest downhill destination in the Europe right now? Bansko in Bulgaria’s Balkan mountains, where the state-of-the-art lift that opened in 2004 set off ...

Bansko, Bulgaria's premier mountain resort, experienced a surge in winter tourism, with more than 190,000 visitors flocking to its slopes during the season. The influx of tourists from Bulgaria, ...

Set scenically at the base of the Pirin Mountains, Bansko has quietly emerged as one of the world's newest remote working hubs in recent years. Arriving in Bansko for the first time, you might feel ...

Bulgarian „For the Nature“ NGO coalition express deep concern about the future of protected areas in the country Bulgarian „For the Nature“ NGO coalition, of which WWF is a founding member, expressed ...

The first thing to tell you about Bansko, Bulgaria, is what it is not. It's not a sanitised Alpine ski resort full of British parents maintaining rictus grins as banknotes fly from their pockets, ...

Have you been hammamed?” says the man in the outdoor hot tub as I relax my aching muscles after a day on the slopes. Wondering if this is some kind of local Bulgarian custom I enquire a bit more.

Bulgaria’s Bansko is the place to be this winter, having been announced as the best value destination for a week-long family ski break by TripAdvisor. Located at the foot of the Pirin Mountains in ...