Not far from the Ritsa there is an amazing place - the Blue Lake. The most beautiful place. The lake is surrounded by rocks. With an area of 180 square meters, the largest depth is 76 meters, so it is quite deep. The amazing blue color of the water, for some reason is still unknown even to scientists, there are many versions. The water is very cold, they say that even in very hot weather it does not warm up above 9 degrees. But it doesn't freeze in winter either. The surface of the water is very calm, although there are many undercurrents and a waterfall flows into the lake itself. Nothing and no one alive lives or grows in the lake. The water is not only cold, but also very clean and transparent, although sometimes it seems cloudy, this is an illusion due to the refraction of sunlight and depth. Of course, like all popular tourist destinations, the locals here trade in abundant souvenirs, wine (I do not advise), and offer to take pictures with pheasants. Prices are naturally overpriced. So it's better not to go near this mini market. But I advise you to visit the lake itself, it is stunningly beautiful.
The lake itself is great, it did everything right, It's a beautiful place, the water is amazing, I would like to be in silence here... But where is there!
But the annoying young men with photo caps hesitated)
If you really want to take a picture for money, then it's better to use the help of a man with trained peacocks - it's inexpensive, it looks decent, and without annoying.
I would also like to mention a commemorative banner dedicated to the man who first thought of photographing tourists here))) it touched me, seemed a little naive, and helped me to understand the attitude of local residents to this "tradition" a little differently.
It's true that it's blue, but here's a lake where it's unlikely that a water source flows into a small pool in which there are certain substances that color the water in this lake, then flows into a full-size river. Trade and various services in this place are three times the size of the lake itself.🤣 Don't go there during the season! Photographers with different poor little animals are attacking. The best time is November.