Hiking with the butterflies

I had the ambitious plan to try to go to a peak that time, but because of the weather, my super late start and some butterflies, that didn’t happen. Still I have some photos to share from that day (I think it was around 2 weeks ago). I started my hike from around 1300m asl and after an hour or so I was near Mechit Hut(1670m). I’ve never visited it, but some local people told me it was a nice place.

This guy was alone on a meadow after the hut and apparently was lonely so he decided to join me on my hike and walked with me for a while. Both curious and afraid of me, he was approaching me and than running away all the time. I asked him if he would like to hug each other and take a selfie together, but he refused. And after that he left me. But from there I had new company.

I saw probably hundreds of these on my path once I reached altitude around 1700m, and I kept seeing them everywhere till the end of my hike around 2100m. All of them were the same and I wonder what they were even doing there - there weren’t any flowers, just stones, grass and little pine trees. I read later that they are called(at least in Bulgarian) Nettle Butterflies and they were really fast, but I managed to take a few photos of them. Chasing them took me a lot of time and it prevented me to go higher in the mountain but it turned out to be better that way as it started to rain soon. As you know, I don’t mind it, but that time I wasn’t wearing a waterproof jacket, so it would have been bad for some of the things I carried with me. And here’s how the butterfly pathway looked like.

The view around were nice too.

Back in the forest, it was already raining which was the perfect refreshing end of my 5 hours and 14km hike (as I said, it had to be longer, but blame the butterflies).

And the last one from the day :)

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