“Skaklia” is one of the highest Bulgarian waterfalls. Violent, babbling and crystal water descent from 130 meters height. The waterfall impresses with its grandeur and beauty. Situated in one of the most picturesque parts of Vratza Balkan, among venerable green woods and hard to climb rocks, filled by birdsongs in the daytime, and by the tuneful voice of the crickets in nighttime. Its water lessens in the summer, but its splashes, which fall on waves upon the vertical rock, refract the sunbeams and in the afternoon hours the tourists watch from several places the colours of the rainbow. The road to the waterfall starts from the regional Vratza hospital. In this region in “Baira” (The Hill) place, Vasil Levski (a great national hero, fighter for the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman empire) held a meeting with the local revolutionary committee at the end of august in 1872. Nearby the waterfall is Zasele village. Any of its residents can show you the rock, called “Jilavia kamak” (The hardy stone) where the character of a short story of Ivan Vazov, Old Yotzo watched with his blind streaming eyes the first train across the defile of Iskar river, a sign of a new Bulgaria.

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