Pirin National Park, Mt Vihren 2.914m, Bulgaria

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Contributor tvbart returns to AirVuz after a two year hiatus with this fantastic drone video of Bulgaria's Pirin National Park.  One of three national parks in this Southeast European country, the park covers most of its namesake mountain range and is located in the southwestern part of the country.  The range runs on a northwest-to-southeast axis for a length of about 50 mi. or about 80 km.  The range's highest peak (Vihren) has a maximum altitude of just under 9.6k ft. above sea level or around 2.9k m.  

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Pirin National Park, named initially Vihren National Park, encompasses southwestern Bulgaria's larger part of the Pirin Mountains. The international hikers’ route E4, goes from the Pyrennees through the Alps before crossing Bulgaria’s Rila Pirin ranges and ending in the Peloponnese, Greece. The national park is best accessed at the town of Bansko on the northeastern side. Pirin National Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. Within the park, there are more than 182 species of medicinal plants and 1,315 other plant species – roughly 1/3 of Bulgaria’s total. The park also harbors approximately 320 kinds of moss and lichen and 165 varieties of algae.