Golden Bridges
Boulder-choked stone river on a mountain slope, with a hidden stream audible beneath the rocks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Golden Bridges, the great stone river on Vitosha above Sofia, starts with a word local hikers still use for it and the geological puzzle hiding inside that word. It weighs the old glacier story against a rival account of the mountain's past, and turns to the syenite under your boots and the way it breaks down. Best heard crouching between two boulders, where you can listen as well as look.
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