Food and Entertainment
The local traditional specialty, called “salamura”, is a fish soup made of small baked fish and it is the first thing to be tried. The hospitable restaurants offer good cuisine and plenty of Bulgarian national dishes, made of ecological home products. You can also visit the Vodenitsata Tavern(water-mill) which is 8 km from Ribaritsa on the way to Teteven. The hosts will offer you a traditional folk-style evening with live music. If you admire the Greek cuisine, then your place is the Mardanis Tavern (1 km after Vodenitsata), where a family of professional chefs will satisfy any of your caprices and may surprise you with a pot of home-made buffalo-cow yogurt. And all that accompanied by the tender murmur of the Beli Vit River. You can go sightseeing by means of an excursion train (12 km along the Beli Vit River), a cab or a carriage. The best way to get acquainted with Ribaritsa is to rent a bicycle and to take the country roads and the forest pathways. You will see the Roman bridge over the Kostina River, old hamlets, Jacob’s cave and the Rock Bridge and many other sights of the country. The small tucked away beeches on the Beli Vit River are very suitable for recreation. Or you can go on fish picnic if you angle your own trout in “Edelweiss”, the first private fish-farm in Ribaritsa.
 
 Routes
 Ribaritsa is the starting point to one of the Balkan Range giants – Vezhen Peak (2198m) – the third highest of the Range. The Tsarichina Nature Reserve, within the limits of which lays the route, is one of the nine green pearls of the Central Balkan National Park. Here you can find the northernmost habitat in the world of the white fir, the Balkan endemite and relict.
 The architectural and historical sights in the vicinity of Ribaritsa are not less than the mountain routes. The historical museum in Teteven (12 km from Ribaritsa) keeps memories of the beauty of Altin Teteven (the golden Teteven). The Yorgo’s house (18 c.) is the oldest house of the Bulgarian national revival in Teteven, where you can see unique wood-carving, and St. Ilia monastery (14-16 c.) is an exclusively valuable monument of the old Bulgarian architecture.  The Bobevski’s house (1852) is a typical example of the Teteven architectural traditions of the Late Revival and the Hadji Ivan’ s house (1843) is interesting with the well-preserved hiding-place of Vassil Levski. The All Saints church (1830-1846) is one of the biggest churches and represents a three-nave basilica with a clock-tower belfry and finely carved iconostasis, done by masters of the schools in Tryavna and Debar.
 The only museum of national arts and crafts in Bulgaria is in the town of Troyan and in Oreshaka you will find the best creations of craftsmen from all parts of the country. You mustn’t miss the Troyan monastery which is the third biggest after the Rila and Bachkovo monasteries.
 Detailed and update information about anything which may be of interest to you with regard to Ribaritsa, you can get in the Ecological Information and Education Center in the resort.
 Important telephones:
 Ecological Information and Education Center – Ribaritsa
 Tel.: 06 902/24 79; 22 52
 Edelweiss Tourist Service Bureau – Ribaritsa (from June to September)
 Tel.: 06 902/24 00