{"id":2798,"date":"2015-11-16T18:08:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2798"},"modified":"2015-11-17T11:45:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T10:45:55","slug":"vitosha-mountain-alpine-walk-sofia-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?page_id=2798","title":{"rendered":"Vitosha mountain alpine walk, Sofia, Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was taken on a second wonderful field trip on Saturday 7th November 2015 at dusk by Maria Tariyska and Vassil Karaivanov! Vassil drove us up to the skiing area on Mt. Vitosha (Bulgaria&#8217;s 4th highest mountain), from where there are a \u00a0number of marked trails in the natural park!<br \/>\nAs we walked, I heard a familiar sound from home, Nutcrackers! They were no doubt feeding on\u00a0pine nuts. \u00a0Both\u00a0Scot\u2019s pine (<i>Pinus sylvestris<\/i>), the Macedonian pine (<i>Pinus peuce<\/i>) and the Dwarf Mountain pine (<em>Pinus mugo) <\/em>are all found on Vitosha.<br \/>\nIt was interesting to see several familiar Norwegian species up here!<\/p>\n<p>See my pictures here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/pictures\/index.php?\/category\/84\">http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/pictures\/index.php?\/category\/84<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/P1500414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/P1500414-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"P1500414\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/P1500414-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/P1500414.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/pictures\/index.php?\/category\/84\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See more about Mt. Vitosha here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/plovdiv-guide.com\/the-national-vitosha-nature-park\u00a0\">http:\/\/plovdiv-guide.com\/the-national-vitosha-nature-park\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was taken on a second wonderful field trip on Saturday 7th November 2015 at dusk by Maria Tariyska and Vassil Karaivanov! Vassil drove us up to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2798","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2816,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2798\/revisions\/2816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}