One of the great single day destinations around Sofia. The round trip is around 240km - you take highway Trakia up until the exit for Mirovo. Then you go up to Momin prohod, Kostenets, up the Maritza and Curved river to Sestrimo and up to Belmeken dam. The cool thing about this place is that it is the highest reservoir on the Balkan peninsula. The BEST part of the trip is the road that gets you there. After you head out of Sestrimo, the road winds beautifully until you get up to the mountain. Then it get horrific…aly twisty! In all my experience winding about Bulgaria, this is the twistiest road I’ve ridden on. You don’t get much traffic either…I think I might have passed one or two cars on the round trip up and down. Road conditions are fair enough. The farther you climb up and away from Sestrimo, the worse it gets. Of course, “worse” is subjective - it’s paved all the way up, with potholes scattered here and there and some cambered turns in between longer stretches. You really have to pay attention or you’ll get carried away and find yourself getting into corners waaay too fast, jumping on the brakes, realizing that the acute onset of diarrhea means your soul is ready to abandon you in times of trouble 🤣🤣 Once you get there though, you find it’s all worth the effort. The reservoir is huge! and even though I was there on the 16th of September, the weather was mighty fine and warm enough to go about in my short shorts 🤣 - so glad there was absolutely no one around. For sure I’ll be heading around this way again, and if anyone wants company give me holler 😃 PP: I’m getting into writing my rides up and really need to start taking more photos - will get better at that, so don’t worry. Vids coming soon, I hope, as soon as I get past the whole moving-beyond-windows-movie editor thing down! 😂 Safe travels to all, and have a great evening 👌☺️ #belmeken #f800gs #bmw #bmwmotorrad #touring #adventure #motorcycle #solo #bulgaria #adventuretime #noob #instagood #freespirit (at Belmeken Lake) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVir0eLs5r5/?utm_medium=tumblr